Tornadoes hit the U.S. every year.
Tornado season in the U.S. is generally considered to run from late March through June. However, tornadoes can hit the U.S. at any time of year.
Yes. Tornadoes hit the U.S. in every month and hundreds hit the U.S. every year. It is inevitable that there will be more. However there is no way of knowing where or when they will hit.
The tri-state tornado hit the states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in the US.
The worst (or at least the deadliest) tornado to hit the U.S. was the Camilla, Georgia tornado of February 13, which killed 11 people.
The infamous Waco tornado occurred on May 11, 1953. It is unknown when a tornado might hit Waco again.
1925. There were 794 tornado deaths in the U.S. that year, 695 from a single tornado.
Yes. The US has hundreds of tornadoes every year.
In 2011 there were 552 tornado fatalities in the United States, tying it as the second deadliest tornado year in U.S. history.
The Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925. The tornado killed 695 people, 613 of them in Illinois.
Yes, a part of Colorado is in Tornado Alley. It should be noted that no US State is entirely free of tornadoes. Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas lead the Nation in that order on the number of tornado sightings per square mile.
The highest elevation tornado on record in the US was an F0 that hit Sequoia National Park on July 7, 2004. It was recorded at an elevation of 12,000 feet.
There were hundreds of tornadoes in the US in 2011. Some of the most notable ones include an EF4 that hit Vilonia and Mayflower, Arkansas on April 27, killing 16. The next day another EF4 hit Louisville, Mississippi, killing 10. On June 16, yet another EF4 tornado destroyed half the town of Pilger, Nebraska.