In the last week fifteen states have reported tornadoes. California seems to keep seeing a few tornadoes every now and again over these past couple months. Tornado alley has definitely not been free of tornadoes this year. Well outside of tornado alley, Massachusetts reported 7 tornadoes yesterday, likely some of them were repeats but there will still be at least 2-3 confirmed tornadoes out of all those reports. On average Massachusetts has 3 tornadoes a year1, so they either tied or broke that record with one day’s worth of severe weather activity!
Here are the states reporting tornado activity:
- ALABAMA:1 reported
- CALIFORNIA: 4 reported
- COLORADO: 1 reported
- KANSAS: 6 reported
- LOUISIANA: 3 reported
- MASSACHUSETTS: 7 reported
- MICHIGAN: 5 reported
- MINNESOTA: 3 reported
- MISSISSIPPI: 1 reported
- NEBRASKA: 16 reported
- NORTH DAKOTA: 2 reported
- OHIO: 2 reported
- PENNSYLVANIA: 12 reported
- SOUTH DAKOTA: 7 reported
- WASHINGTON: 2 reported
* Numbers courtesy of SPC
1http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/small/avgt5304.gif