SPC Tornado Stats

[metroames]

They've updated the tornado stats. Unbelievable! :faint

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/torn/monthlytornstats.html

[lyngraphics]

That chart is almost through the roof!

[Caver]

Wow! Thank you. Very telling for those looking.

[Texas Girl]

:shocked

[Julian4jc]

Fascinating indeed.
I only wish everyone was looking.

[Reason&Hope]

There's also this interesting statistic I got from a Hal Lindsey article and made into a chart:

Decade Number of “Significant” Earthquakes (according to USGS)
1970-1979 44
1980-1989 47
1990-1999 57
2000–2008 109 (13 are between 8.0 and 9.9 on Richter)

[Whiplash]

There is a distinct possibility that this could be a record year. Certainly, the number of deaths is disturbing.

However, there is a tendency on this board to confuse preliminary numbers with final numbers. It looks really bad, but those numbers will come down. It is likely it will be a record year, but we won't know until everything is evaluated and tallied. For previous years it has been, so we really can't compare until all of that is said and done.

Something that is really telling with that chart, is the fact that Tornadoes decreased in each of the previous 3 years, while tornado related deaths increased. For this year, deaths are markedly up.

[Whiplash]

I've lived in Tornado Alley all of my life and the weirdest thing I have ever seen happened last August. It barely gained any notice outside of Oklahoma.

When a weather event that, for all intents and purposes, can be described as a hurricane happens in Oklahoma, I would say the weather is weird. Yet, it pretty much went unnoticed.

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[lyngraphics]

I've lived in Tornado Alley all of my life and the weirdest thing I have ever seen happened last August. It barely gained any notice outside of Oklahoma.

When a weather event that, for all intents and purposes, can be described as a hurricane happens in Oklahoma, I would say the weather is weird. Yet, it pretty much went unnoticed.

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That's pretty freaky!!

[FaithContender]

I'm getting nervous about hurricane season this year. DH and I went to a hurricane preparedness conference a couple years ago, and they said that if a hurricane was headed to Long Island, there would be no way to evacuate people...so we would all just have to hunker down:fearWe don't live in the flood zone, but we would probably sustain lots of wind damage. It makes me very nervous.:panic