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Update on Tornado Threat Forecasts

The pattern looks pretty quiet for the next week, so I’m going to go back to what we did last year and just do special updates when the more notable disturbances show up. As you can see on this inflation-adjusted graph, the tornado count has really flat-lined recently in this already quiet season:

Needless to say, I am very fortunate to have picked a two-week period months in advance that would end up being the only active period in the Plains! I hope all the chasers were able to get what they could out of this paltry tornado season.

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