This tornado is considered the second deadliest in U.S. history.
When it comes to top calendar days for tornadoes, May leads all other months with six days falling into the…
The second week of April began with much anticipation as a strong upper-level trough pushed out into the Plains. Instead,…
2012 tornado data was recently published by the Storm Prediction Center. We take a quick look at how it broke…
Most years have a handful of these F2/EF-2+ events, with the averages skewed toward years with moderate or large outbreaks.
The most damaging of tornadoes are relatively infrequent in the cool season, but they do happen, and they tend to…
There is a bit of a spike in strong tornado activity in November across the record. Mississippi and Alabama lead…
Most of the states in the country have been hit by strong tornadoes, and over half have seen a violent…
Compared to the drop in overall tornadoes in October from September, the rate of decrease among strong or significant (F2/EF-2+)…
Throughout the historical period, September continues the late-summer trend of fewer significant (F2/EF-2+) tornadoes. It's top end year is not…
From 1950-2011, August has consistently seen fairly low numbers of strong/significant tornadoes rated F2/EF-2 or higher, though its ratio of…
July continues the trend in recent months of a smaller ratio of significant tornadoes, or those F2/EF-2 and stronger, to…