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Posted on 05/21/2025 11:25:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Five tornadoes rated EF4 have struck the U.S. so far in 2025 after two more were confirmed following the most recent siege of severe weather in mid-May. Tornadoes in the violent category like these makeup less than 1% of twisters this century, so how does this year's number stack up compared to the average?
Big Picture -Defining Violent Tornadoes: While all tornadoes are dangerous, meteorologists reserve "violent" for those with the two highest ratings on the Enhanced-Fujita scale - EF4 or EF5. That's because these strongest tornadoes are capable of devastating damage, such as crushing and throwing vehicles, leveling well-built homes, even sweeping foundations clean. These select few tornadoes are estimated to have peak winds of 166 mph or higher.
-This Year's EF4 Tornadoes: Two of them struck northern Arkansas on the night of March 14. The following day, EF4 damage was found from a tornado that tracked from Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, to Covington County, Mississippi. May 16 had two EF4s, one south of Marion, Illinois, and another that devastated parts of Pulaski and Laurel counties in southeast Kentucky.
-More Than The 10-Year Average: There have been anywhere from zero to six EF4-rated tornadoes each year from 2015 through 2024, so this year is on the higher end of that range for the past decade. The average over that time is about 3 per year, which is 2 fewer than we've seen in 2025.
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No!
It’s obvious that the increase in tornados is cause by wide spread use of weather radars.
It’s called weather cycles.
Only because instant reporting!
For most idiots, history only started after they were born.
They have no concept of the 1974 Xenia OH, outbreak.
Trump created the tornados just like the media assured us that Bush created Hurricane Katrina and steered it toward minorities.
Called the Tri-State Tornado, it started the afternoon of March 18, 1925, near Ellington, Missouri. For about four hours, the storm raced along a track of more than 200 miles, decimating parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. It came with no warning.
By the end of the day, 695 people were dead, more than 2,000 were injured and thousands were left homeless – even town-less.
WOW
Tornadoes have sirens to warn them when Chuck Norris is coming.
No. The prevalence of observation and recording capacity and general human density and movement is just observing/recording the true seasonal numbers.
How many tornadoes went without detection in the past because they didn’t hit a populated area.
Now we know about every single tornado there is.
How many years historical weather data is accurate?
Assume 1000 years.
Which means we have records of 0.00002% of reliable and accurate weather data during Earth’s lifespan.
My thinking is it is absurd to reach any conclusions based on o.00002% of data to reach any conclusions.
Is it normal for Colorado to create laws demanding men are women?
The media’s actual job is to keep you in a state of constant dread so that you can be manipulated. It is that simple. Thus the never ending stream of bad news and fear mongering. Mostly outright lies or wild exaggerations.
Bingo
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