Tornado Statistics

[New_Begining]

Here is a great site to follow what is happening with the tornado count for 2008. So far 1664 preliminary reports of tornados for 2008. Compared to 1300 preliminary reports for all of 2007 or 1106 for all of 2006.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/torn/monthlytornstats.html
...NUMBER OF TORNADOES... NUMBER OF KILLER
TORNADO DEATHS TORNADOES
..2008.. ..2007.. 2006 2005 3YR 3YR 3YR
PREL ACT PREL ACT FIN FIN AV 08 07 06 05 AV 08 07 06 05 AV
JAN 136 84 29 21 47 33 34 7 2 1 4 2 4 1 1 2 1
FEB 230 148 87 52 12 10 25 58 22 0 0 7 13 3 0 0 1
MAR 150 118 214 171 150 62 128 4 27 11 1 13 3 10 7 1 6
APR 189 - 187 165 245 132 181 0 9 38 0 16 0 3 9 0 4
MAY 595 - 282 250 139 123 171 43 14 3 0 6 10 4 1 0 2
JUN 364 - 152 128 120 316 188 6 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
JUL - - 55 69 71 138 93 - 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0
AUG - - 87 73 80 123 92 - 1 1 4 2 - 1 1 3 2
SEP - - 63 51 84 133 89 - 0 1 1 1 - 0 1 1 1
OCT - - 115 87 76 18 60 - 5 0 0 2 - 3 0 1 1
NOV - - 7 7 42 150 66 - 0 10 28 13 - 0 3 5 3
DEC - - 22 19 40 26 33 - 1 2 0 1 - 1 2 0 1
---- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
SUM 1664 350 1300 1093 1106 1264 1159 118 81 67 38 62 33 26 25 13 21

[dramama]

we still have a way to go....also, they didn't really stop last year, there were tornadoes in the fall and winter as well......:fear