Depends on what town you're talking about. You first have to determine the chance of your town getting hit ONCE by a tornado. Oklahoma City has a much higher risk of getting hit by a tornado than Los Angeles, CA...So therefore the risk of Oklahoma City getting struck by 2 tornadoes would be much higher than Los Angeles.
Many people (not necessarily scientiest or meteorologists) think that lightning will not strike the same place twice. So they say that it is rare for lightning to strick twice, meaning twice at the same place. This term is used to imply something that is rare.
Lightning can (and sometimes does) strike twice in the same place. it usually strikes three times in the same place it just apears to be one.
Yes. There is no shortage of examples.
Lightning commonly strikes the same place many times. Lightning is static electricity, generated in the collisions between the clouds. The lightning wants to ground itself by striking something with a good electrical pathway to the earth. That could be a tall tree, or a steeple, or a house chimney, or any tall object that will intercept the lightning strike and bring it to ground. Lightning will strike twice if the same place it struck before is still a good, high, electrical path to the ground, and if no better places have been built.
A tornado striking a given area does not change that area's chances be being hit again in the future. In some tornado outbreaks the same location has been hit two or even three times in the same day. It is also possible, though rare, for a spot to be hit twice by the same tornado. In order for this to happen the tornado must turn around and cross its own path. Such instances are most likely to happen with a slow-moving tornado.
Yes. When a tornado hits a location it does not change the chances of it getting hit again.
Lightning not only can strike the same place twice, it frequently does.
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Southern California will usually get a few weak tornadoes every year. Destructive tornadoes like the ones that strike the Midwest may occur once or twice per century.
Many people (not necessarily scientiest or meteorologists) think that lightning will not strike the same place twice. So they say that it is rare for lightning to strick twice, meaning twice at the same place. This term is used to imply something that is rare.
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The Joplin tornado was a devastating EF5 tornado that struck the city of Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. It is most notable for killing 158 people, making it the seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. history and the deadliest to strike the U.S. since 1947. It was by far the deadliest U.S. tornado in the era of modern weather forecasting, killing more than twice as many people as the runner-up. It was also the costliest tornado in U.S. history, causing $2.8 billion worth of damage. It was the culminating event of an extremely brutal series of tornado outbreaks that had begun in April.
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Lightning can (and sometimes does) strike twice in the same place. it usually strikes three times in the same place it just apears to be one.
I see no reason why it should not strike twice in one place. This sounds more like an unconfirmed rumor than a scientific fact.
Yes.