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1974: The Super Outbreak is the largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24 - hour period - 148 tornadoes, 13 US states

The Iowa Tornado Outbreak of November 2005 was a large and exceptionally rare late autumn season tornado outbreak on the afternoon and evening of November 12, 2005 all throughout the state but concentrated in central Iowa.

Not exact matches

On our radar: A tornado outbreak in the midwest spawns deadly twisters that have left at least five people, including two children, dead in Oklahoma.

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 past April, the series of outbreaks in the Midwest and Southeast generated at least 600 tornadoes — more than any previous month on record.

The April 6 - 8, 2006 Tornado Outbreak was a major tornado outbreak in the Central and parts of the Southern United States that began on April 6, 2006 and continued until April 8 across at least 13 states, with most of the activity on Outbreak was a major tornado outbreak in the Central and parts of the Southern United States that began on April 6, 2006 and continued until April 8 across at least 13 states, with most of the activity on outbreak in the Central and parts of the Southern United States that began on April 6, 2006 and continued until April 8 across at least 13 states, with most of the activity on April 7.

Wencui Han of the Department of Management Science and Systems at the University at Buffalo, New York and colleagues, explain how in the last two decades criminal incidents such as shootings on campus, assaults and robberies, natural disasters including tornadoes, hurricanes and snow storms and disease outbreaks have put students and staff at risk.

Elsner and his team point out the statistical trend — that «the risk of big tornado days featuring densely concentrated tornado outbreaks is on the rise» — but only a suggest a hypothesis for what environmental changes might be behind this trend.

«Viewing the data on thousands of tornadoes that have been reliably recorded in the United States over the past half - century as a population has permitted us to ask new questions and discover new, important changes in outbreaks of these tornadoes,» Cohen said.

There were 34 total fatalities, but before the December outbreak was on track to beat the 15 deaths that were reported in 1986 to become the lowest annual tornado - related fatality count in the 1950 - present period of record.

In addition to a shift in the peak of tornado season, research has also shown that major outbreaks of tornadoes are becoming more common and that more tornadoes are occurring on those days.

For the third year in a row, tornado season has gotten off to a slow start, as indicated in the graphic below That's a big contrast to the active 2011 season — the second highest on record with 1,691 twisters reported, including a single outbreak that killed 316 people.

The trait, he proposed, comes to the surface when such people confront strong messaging on the need for emissions reductions amid enduringly murky science on what's driving some particular extreme environmental phenomenon in the world — whether a brief period of widespread melting on the Greenland ice sheet, a potent drought, a tornado outbreak or the extreme event of the moment, the hybrid nor» easter / hurricane known on Twitter as #Frankenstorm.

I saw barely a mention of these realities in recent posts by climate - oriented bloggers on the tornado outbreak.

It's an important research question but, to me, has no bearing at all on the situation in the Midwest and South — whether there's a tornado outbreak or drought.

Last January, when there was a rare winter tornado outbreak, and some talk of human - driven global warming playing a role, I consulted a batch of meteorologists and climate scientists who have studied trends in the categories of tornadoes that kill people, which are those designated F2 through F5 on the five - step Fujita scale of intensity (gauged by the amount and type of damage that is wrought).

Rates have risen in the state by as much as eight or nine percent this year; however, those rates were already on the rise before the April 27 tornado outbreak that devastated Montgomery.

Rarely is human - induced climate change mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in the recent outbreak of sever tornadoes although questions about causation are becoming more frequent on TV and newspapers in this writer's experience.

The past two years have seen major tornado outbreaks, severe impact on the northeast from tropical storms, and a devastating drought stateside.

Suspension of comments: Due to Roy Spencer being caught up in a loss of power related to the tornado outbreak in Alabama, we are suspending comments on this post until he is in a position to respond (should he choose to).

As the devastation heaped on communities in Central Illinois becomes clearer after an outbreak of powerful tornadoes Sunday, REALTORS ® across the state and beyond are mobilizing to help victims.