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One state had the lion's share of tornadoes between 2020 and 2024-but a different state sustained the most monetary damage.
The 2025 tornado season is the most active in the United States in more than a decade, with more preliminary tornado reports ...
Destructive tornadoes have hit states such as Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana this season as activity shifts east.
Every year, an average of 1,150 tornadoes touch down in the United States. Even when combined, Australia, Canada, and all the countries in Europe don’t come close to that number. In the U.S ...
Tornadoes are just as common in the southern United States as they are on the Plains. These southern tornadoes can be just as big as those you’d see in Oklahoma or Kansas, but tornadoes in the ...
A smaller tornado in 1992. Casualties: 161 dead, 1,000 injured; Category: F5; As is common with many large tornadoes and their supercell thunderstorm, the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado actually ...
The United States gets more tornadoes, by far, than any other place on the planet. It averages about 1,250 twisters a year. Canada, which sees about 100 tornadoes per year, ...
The United States has seen 21 category five (EF-5) tornadoes, the highest ranking on the Enhanced Fujita scale, since 1980, and eight of those hit the traditional Tornado Alley.
At least 32 people have died as a result of the storms on March 31 and April 1. A powerful storm system unleashed violent tornadoes and severe thunderstorms across the United States last weekend ...
Capital Weather Gang U.S. has world’s highest tornado risk. Here’s why. Most of Earth’s tornadoes occur in mid-latitudes, which puts the Lower 48 in the center of that not-so-sweet ordinate zone ...