Tennessee has a high number of overall catastrophes as well as
a significant number of tornadoes, amounting to above average damage claims.
Not exact matches
While no
significant trends have been found in either the annual
number of reliably reported
tornadoes or
of outbreaks, recent studies indicate increased variability in large normalized economic and insured losses from U.S. thunderstorms, increases in the annual
number of days on which many
tornadoes occur, and increases in the annual mean and variance
of the
number of tornadoes per outbreak.
This year's early March
tornado outbreak was
significant for a
number of reasons, according to Jake Crouch, a climatologist with the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and co-author
of a new State
of the Climate report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released today (April 9).
«If you look at the history
of significant tornado activity, there are a large
number of outbreaks that occur in March and April,» Carbin told OurAmazingPlanet.