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It is considered the second-highest frequency tornado region in the world. [ citation needed ] Argentina has areas with high tornadic activity, and the strongest tornadoes in the southern hemisphere, [ citation needed ] such as the F5 in San Justo , Argentina, 105 km (65 mi) north of the city of Santa Fe , with winds that exceeded 400 ...
Websites Dedicated to Specific Tornado Events (SPC, NOAA) World Wide Tornadoes (Tornado Project) UK/European Tornado Extremes Archived 2015-08-02 at the Wayback Machine ; Tornadoes in Germany (in German) Tornado Map (German Project / Map Worldwide) Tornadoes in Brazil; Czech and Slovakia Tornadoes (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute)
1 Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. 2 See also. 3 References. 4 External links. Toggle the table of contents. List of tornado events by year ...
The US averages over 1,150 tornadoes every single year. That’s more than any other country in the world. In fact, it’s more than Canada, Australia and all European countries combined.
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.
This most recent study examined the years 1973-1996 vs.1997-2020 and found that both the number of tornadoes and the length of tornado paths increased significantly in parts of the Southeast ...
Tornadoes occur most frequently in North America (particularly in central and southeastern regions of the United States colloquially known as Tornado Alley; the United States has by far the most tornadoes of any country in the world). [7] Tornadoes also occur in South Africa, much of Europe (except most of the Alps), western and eastern ...
The tornado is believed to have been much more powerful than EF1 intensity, [109] and has been described as "one of the most powerful tornadoes ever to occur" by Oklahoma Country station KLAW, as well as certain meteorologists and storm chasers. [110]