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A diagram of tornado alley based on 1 tornado or more per decade. Rough location (red), and its contributing weather systems. Tornado Alley (also known as Tornado Valley) is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1]
8 maj 2024 · Tornado alley, with its dubious geographical perimeter, has been migrating. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, the corridor's classically accepted boundaries were broadly respected by these...
11 maj 2023 · Although tornadoes touch down in many places across the eastern half of the country, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on...
6 cze 2024 · June 06, 2024. At a Glance. A new study found the most active tornado corridor in the U.S. has changed in recent decades. It's focused in the lower Mississippi Valley, but still is active into...
The peak “tornado season” for the southern Plains (e.g., Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas) is from May into early June. On the Gulf coast, it is earlier in the spring. In the northern Plains and upper Midwest (North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota), tornado season is in June or July.
12 mar 2024 · "While tornado outbreaks are possible every month of the year in the United States, they are more likely in the Southern part of tornado alley in late winter and early spring, with tornado season migrating northward into the Northern Plains by mid-summer."
24 wrz 2014 · The peak of tornado season is occurring 7-14 days earlier in Tornado Alley than it was 60 years ago.