Significant June Tornadoes in the United States
Significant F2/EF-2+ tornadoes have historically made up just shy of 16 percent of all June tornadoes throughout the modern record…
Tag: Violent Tornadoes
Significant May Tornadoes in the United States
Roughly 20 percent of the 12,349 tornadoes in May (1950-2011) were significant. That’s a hard count of 2,435 tornadoes. Since…
Videos of the Violent EF4 and EF5 Tornadoes on April 27, 2011
April 27, 2011 brought 15 violent tornadoes to the South, including four EF-5s. We've documented their paths and have collected…
Significant April Tornadoes in the United States
Out of 7,885 tornadoes total in April (1950-2011), 2,161 — or 27% — were rated as significant F2/EF-2+ tornadoes. In…
Tornado Weekly: April 8-14, 2012
A much-touted tornado outbreak arrived on April 14 as a strong upper-level low pushed out into the Plains. Kansas was…
Violent F4/EF-4 and F5/EF-5 Tornadoes in the United States since 1950
Combined, violent tornadoes make up a still rather meager 1 percent of all tornadoes, but they caused 64 percent of…
F5/EF-5 Tornadoes: The 0.1 Percenters that Can’t be Ignored
F5/EF-5 tornadoes are a force of nature most folks hope to never come face-to-face with. From 1950-2010, they made up…
Significant March tornadoes in the United States
As briefly touched upon in the general overview of March tornadoes, significant (F2/EF-2+) only touched down 1,080 times (or 30%…