'Tornado alley' claims average 80 lives every year
The plains of the central United States are no strangers to tornadoes.
Tornado Alley"A term often used by the media to denote a zone in the Great Plains region of the central United States, often a north-south oriented region centered on north Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, where tornadoes are most frequent.
Tornado Alley: An area of the United States where tornadoes are the most frequent encompassing the low-lands of the Mississippi, Ohio and lower Missouri River valleys.
TORNADO ALLEY A geographic corridor in the United States which stretches north from Texas to Nebraska and Iowa. In terms of sheer numbers, this section of the United States receives more tornadoes than any other.
Tornado Alley The area of the United States in which tornadoes are most frequent. It encompasses the great lowland areas of the Mississippi, the Ohio, and lower Missouri River Valleys.
Tornado alley Region of maximum tornado frequency in North America; a corridor stretching from central Texas northward into Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, and eastward into central Illinois and Indiana, ...
Tornado Alley - The portion of the United States where tornadoes occur most frequently. Tornado alley is between the Plains area from the Rocky Mountains on the west to the Appalachian Mountains on the east.
Tornado: Tornado Alley: Midwest US. 18. Tornado: Tornado Watch/Warnings Issued issued by the NWS. 19. Tornado: Waterspout: Tornado are over water. 20. Tornado: A funnel cloud which touches the ground. 21.
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The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) rarely uses the Moderate and High risk categories and these are many times confined to Tornado Alley in the midwestern United States. A High Risk generally indicates a large tornado outbreak.
Tornadoes occur on all continents but are most common in the United States, where the average number of reported tornadoes is roughly 1000 per year, with the majority of them on the central plains and in the southeastern states (see Tornado Alley).
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