Topic: 2014 Tornadoes

[Farmtalk]

Story is shown at the link above the images. I thought this was worth sharing. It is a DETAILED look at the tornadoes that were reported in 2014. Many neat images are on this site, but I thought I'd just share a couple here so that it doesn't take some of us 5 minutes to see the post. 


http://thevane.gawker.com/maps-here-are-all-of-the-areas-that-were-hit-by-tornad-1674612013

[ValentineWeather]

Amazing how few Oklahoma had even Texas had few compared to other years. Nebraska was up this year and looking at the map the plains in Colorado was very busy also. Is the tornado belt changing or was the year just an anomaly. 

[Farmtalk]

I was always surprised that the southeast was overlooked in the use of 'Tornado Alley'. Alabama and Mississippi are literally #1 and #2 in the highest tornado densities by square area in the United States (Hence the lower totals compared to Texas and Kansas).

[Bunty]

Amazing how few Oklahoma had even Texas had few compared to other years. Nebraska was up this year and looking at the map the plains in Colorado was very busy also. Is the tornado belt changing or was the year just an anomaly.

2014 was an unusually quiet year for central Oklahoma.  Not since the 1980s have there been so few tornadoes.  So it's probably a rare anomaly.

[CW2274]

I was always surprised that the southeast was overlooked in the use of 'Tornado Alley'. Alabama and Mississippi are literally #1 and #2 in the highest tornado densities by square area in the United States (Hence the lower totals compared to Texas and Kansas).

Hence the term "Dixie Alley".