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Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas , South Dakota , Iowa and Nebraska .
Casey created an IMAX film called Tornado Alley about chasing tornadoes and had to build the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) and the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2) to film inside a tornado. [2] Tornado Alley was released worldwide on March 18, 2011. [3] Casey has been named one of the 50 best minds of 2008 by Discover Magazine. [4]
Tornado alley has changed and shifted over the years, but as of 2023 Accuweather lists eight states as being part of this area with a unique combination of geographic and meteorological factors ...
The concept that tornado alley may be shifting eastward is an idea that's percolated for years, Wilson said. He joked that he's received something like 75 media requests on the topic this year alone.
This is because ‘Tornado Alley’ is expanding, and millions of Americans in the a region of the Southeast known as ‘Dixie Alley’ are now at a greater risk for tornadoes than those in the ...
Tornado Chasers is an American documentary series that premiered on September 19, 2012, on TVNweather.com. [1] The program follows Reed Timmer and his team of storm chasers as they attempt to intercept tornadoes in Tornado Alley in the United States and Canada.
A new research paper recently submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology confirms what AccuWeather reported in 2022: tornadoes have shifted east from classic "tornado alley ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.