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Does anyone know of a website that has tornado predictions for this year? I live smack dab in the middle of tornado alley, and over the past few years I've become very interested in severe weather but mainly tornadoes. I'd love to find a site that could tell me what they are anticipating for this year's tornado season. Anyone have a good site? Thanks!

2007-03-02 08:13:26 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Weather

6 answers

There is no more Elnino, it quickly died off and became a la nina.

durning La nina ocean cycles

There isint clear cut evidence what a La Nina does to effect tornadoes development over the United States however what data there is shows there is often more cold seaons outbreaks of strong tornadoes and the south (the lower Midwest, the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, alabama, mississippi, georgia, ect) get hit more often by these storms.

However do not take comfort in this thinking there will be no outbreaks in the plains

notable outbreaks that have occured durning la nina include the

May 3 1999 outbreak (Moore/OKC F5, strongest tornado recorded, there has not been another F5 since)

The Super Outbreak (east of the Mississippi)

1965 Palm Sunday Outbreak in the upper midwest

May 2004 outbreaks in the plains including many F4's

this is from the CPC
there's an odd correlation between some of the worst tornado outbreaks and La Nina conditions

This is from Joseph Schaefer from the Storm Prediction Center
However, significant differences as a function of ENSO phase were found in both the number of tornadoes and the number of strong and violent tornadoes for the Mideastern States, and for F2 and greater tornadoes over the entire contiguous United States. In these cases, more tornadoes appear to occur during La Nina months

There also seems to be a direct corolation between Hurricanes and La Nina, the Hurricane season is usually much more active than durning a El Nino

2007-03-04 05:35:04 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin B 4 · 0 0

There is no site which can do what you are looking for. Sorry. What we do know is that tornadoes are occuring far in excess of their statistical likelyhood so far this year. With the El Nino and the southern branch of the jet stream common to an El Nino year we expected the storms we have seen in the south so far. Whether this will translate however into more storms during the peak season in April and May is hard to say. It could mean a greater number of storms in the south perhaps throughout the remaining Spring months of tornado season and fewer storms in tornado alley with its peak in Oklahoma. Sorry we can't say alot more about this. It is indeed an atypical year thus far.

2007-03-02 11:36:21 · answer #2 · answered by 1ofSelby's 6 · 0 0

If you go to weather.com is the website of the weather channel, you can find everything weather related there and is very informative, every time there is bad weather here where I live, I go there, I live in tornado Alley so I'm there often...

2007-03-02 08:23:27 · answer #3 · answered by jayden 4 · 0 0

I predict 1242 tornadoes this year

2007-03-02 09:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You might try one of these

2007-03-02 08:21:52 · answer #5 · answered by Old guy 124 6 · 0 0

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2007-03-02 11:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by ivan the mighty 1 · 0 0

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