Wednesday, February 13, 2008

A real shocker

Having lived in southern Missouri and seeing both the frequency and attention paid to tornado warnings in that area, it is surprising North Carolina is ranked higher than the 'Show Me' state.

TOP TWENTY TORNADO-PRONE STATES

By means of the Site Assessment of Tornado Threat (SATT) software, VorTek has just completed its annual compilation of the top twenty tornado-prone states based on the latest National Weather Service data for tornadic activity from 1950 through 2006. Mississippi again ranks number one as the most tornado-prone state.

1 Mississippi
2 Arkansas
3 Oklahoma
4 Kansas
5 Nebraska
13 North Carolina
18 Missouri

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