We’re still deep in the heart of winter, but tornado season is right around the corner. (You can check out interesting tornado factoids at the NOAA site, here. ) If you live in the Southeast, look out.
A study from the December issue of “Weather and Forecasting,” published by the American Meteorological Society, finds that the deadliest twisters touch down a little closer to Dixie.
Tornado Alley, which stretches from Texas through the Dakotas, still gets the most tornadoes in a given year. But Walker Ashley, a meteorologist at Northern Illinois University, found that the most fatalities occur in a swath further south.
From the press release:
“The country’s most vulnerable region for tornado-related fatalities and killer tornado events basically stretches from Little Rock to Memphis to Tupelo to Birmingham,” Ashley said.
