Tornado Frequency by County

Click images for larger view. Frequency in number of tornadoes per 2500 sq. km per year (1950-2001).
Upper left: F0-F5; Upper right: F1-F5; Lower left: F2-F5; Lower right: Percent of F0 tornadoes of all tornadoes. A special thanks to University of Nebraska meteorology students James, Matt, Adam, and Kelly for helping crank out the data.

 

Tornado Frequency (1950 - 1975)

Tornado Frequency (1976 - 2001)

Tornado Frequency vs. Population Density by NWS CWA
Tornado Frequncy (from 1950 - 2001) = (Number of tornadoes) / (2500 sq. km * year)
Population density in persons per sq. km

Aberdeen, SD
Amarillo, TX
Bismark, ND
Cheyenne, WY
Chicago, IL
Denver, CO
Des Moines, IA
Dodge City. KS
Duluth, MN
Fort Worth, TX
Goodland, KS
Grand Forks, ND
Green Bay, WI
Hastings, NE
LaCrosse, WI
Lincoln, IL
Lubbock, TX
Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis, MN
Norman, OK
North Platte, NE
Omaha, NE
Paducah, KY
Pleasant Hill, MO
Pueblo, CO
Quad Cities, IA/IL
Rapid City, SD
San Angelo, TX
Shreveport, LA
Sioux Falls, SD
Springfield, MO
St. Louis, MO
Topeka, KS
Tulsa, OK
Wichita, KS

What's this all about? Read my M.S. Thesis Proposal

2004 Des Moines conference presentation (*large* 16MB .ppt)

Climatology of Florida Winter Season Tornadoes for ENSO, AO, and PDO Patterns

Horizontal Convective Rolls Presentation (4.2MB .ppt)

A Synoptic Overview of the 9 June 2003 Central Plains Tornado Outbreak

 

Back to Main Page

Storm Photos