Is Tornado Alley shifting? The answer might make your head spin
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- Are more tornadoes touching down to the east of Tornado Alley's typical boundaries than before? Or is that just anecdotal? We asked some experts to find out.
When you hear an expert in their field say "I don't know" or "we don't have enough data to say for sure", that's the person to trust. It's the ones that have a definitive answer to everything you need to watch out for.
His “I don’t know” at 5:25 was actually really reassuring because that tells me he’s not someone who tries to make conjectures left and right. He actually demands evidence before making such a claim.
Absolutely and ignoring Canada seems very blind when examining this
I was going to say the exact same thing. It is absolutely refreshing to hear "I dont know" from these people.
Lol
You could may might be a 🐑
There was a big one in Kansas in 1939 for sure, one entire house was lifted off its foundation and landed on a witch.
brazy
But the Wicked Witch was dead and couldn't sue.
well done! lol
That was so bad! I loved it. Sounded like a Bad Dad Joke. Thanks for the laugh.
The fact that I fell for this 😂😂
You’ve got “Tornado Alley” in the Midwest and “Dixie Alley” in the South. The tornadoes in the midwest usually move at 25-30mph, while the ones in the South can move at up to 70mph. Both areas can produce massive EF5 killers, but the Southern tornadoes tend to be more long tracked, 100+ miles.
Pole shifting could be something to look at.
This is not true. An F1, the slowest tornado on the scale, starts at over 70mph. Southern tornados are also no faster by comparison, in fact the largest and fastest tornadoes ever recorded are from the Midwest. (See the top comment for this video)
@@uskids9413 the comment is referring to how quickly the tornado is moving over the ground, not rotational speed of the wind. You’re right in that an F1 is ~70mph, but the ground speed is on average 30-40mph.
tornadoes in the midwest are generally in-bedded in a squall line, thus can have ground speed anywhere from 25 to 80 mph depending how fast the squall line is moving. but have also seen supercell storms move at 55-60mph up here in the midwest also. and the IL/IN/OH/MI "tornado alley" is called Hoosier alley, and yesterday 2 June was the anniversary of a huge outbreak in Indiana on 2 June 1990
I didn’t know Dixie Alley tornadoes can move faster! Wild!
Its encouraging to find scientists who will say things like, "I dont know", "we dont have enough data" rather than guessing or politicizing things.
My first job interview post-undergrad was for a Climate Modification (Cloud Seeding) Operation out of west Texas. The underground aquafers have drastically receded (due to overuse) to the point they're trying to induce rainfall for agriculture. I have to imagine the reduction in moisture over this large region has reinforced the 'Dry Line' pushing it further east.
Maybe pole shift.
@@dragonflydreamer7658 air is not ferrous, so no. If there was a magnetic shift, a Utility Locator will let you know because they'll be the first to have issues finding your underground utilities.
Hmmm climate modification? I wonder who “else” knows about this?
You probably know about C.W. Post then.
You realize 90% of world climate is geoengineered right? All the trails?
30 tornados this December in Minnesota. Historically there has been zero
Well maybe it's god's wrath for the sins the people in Minnesota do. You ever think of that? Just kidding. But it's something a "Christian" would say. 🤣
I’m from Minnesota this is true
Yikes y'all 😬
I didn’t know my home town in eastern New Mexico was in tornado alley. We got tornado warnings several times a year but they were usually small twisters that would touch down out in the country. I live in Alabama now and we’ve had a few times where the siren sounds and we get notifications to take shelter. Early 2000’s (before I lived here) a tornado took out the high school and killed 8 students.
With all of the money the government throws away to other countries I’d like to see some of that money be used for shelters. A lot of people live in mobile homes here and no shelter.
I've been saying for the last few years that, at least where I live (desert southwest), the seasons seem to be pushing further into the calendar year. Meaning that summer is starting later and going further into fall. Mid October has been sort of our turning point for cooler weather but the last 10 years have been hit or miss with heat going all the way into November.
Also places that normally get bad storms are now breaking up and shifting east. It’s happening here in eastern PA
@@PMurray2694 I have a friend in Ohio that kept sending me pictures of his new snow blower.......sitting in the grass.....in December, because it hadn't snowed yet. LOL
Warmer late falls and later springs that are quite short then instant summer at least in the central Midwest.
West Texas is experiencing this as well. Corn used to be planted by mid-April, now we wait until mid-May or so to plant corn. Cotton used to be a firm May planting, now looking at late May to early June. The Summers are definitely fierce, and thunderstorms used to be a regular occurrence, drought is much more prevalent, but when it does rain, it freaking rains. First freeze has happened right before Halloween, now it's after and well into December. Winters here in Virginia also in the last five years I have noticed a trend that somewhat relates to more of a Northwestern seasonal pattern. Winters are not that cold, but dang, I swear I wear a hoodie 8 months out of the year in southeastern Virginia. It's weird.
Every year is different, and everyone only remembers the prior year. Cold weather sucks regardless, but occasionally we have snows in October, sometimes November, or sometimes not until December. It's a continual fluctuation that has occurred forever yet today everyone needs to link it so something when that's just not really necessary. Weather and nature aren't perfect and are never steady.
April 4, 1974 was the first time I heard the question "has tornado alley shifted?" After spending part of April 3rd scared witless in Louisville, Kentucky. It coincided with the largest recorded single-day outbreak of tornadoes in the United States. Three years later, we got "Are we entering an ice age?" in 1977-78. I'll wait to draw conclusions other than: I'm confident the climate has continually changed since our atmosphere and oceans formed.
Correct but incorrect. The ice age coming was big oil bs. Human caused warming is ongoing
Did the Ohio River freeze over at Louisville? You can find pictures on Pinterest of people walking across the river at Cincinnati.
The newspaper accounting of the Tombigbee River freezing & ramshackle efforts of local children attempting to skate the ice, , lend credence to these definitive weather patterns. A definite pattern of variability. The Tombigbee River flow through the southwestern portion of the state and the newspaper reports were from the Mobile area.
Mobile, AL
It's possible Louisville didn't have full freeze. The Ohio is at its widest near the Falls of the Ohio. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if it did, being it was chronically cold.
the two greatest outbreaks in the last 50 years (74 and 2011) were biased to the east (Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky in 74) and in both outbreaks, the deep south got hit really hard (Alabama in particular). One of the biggest influences on why the truly killer tornadoes hit dixie alley is the lack of an atmospheric cap coupled with the warmth and moisture in dixie alley. There is so much more lift and buoyancy for air parcels to rise and this allows for thunderstorm development to occur throughout the day as opposed to traditional tornado alley where that cap needs to blown off before storms can form (the Guin, Alabama tornado in 74 for example was an absolute monster that occurred well after sunset and can be attributed to these unique atmospheric traits in dixie alley) and also is never confined to particular times of year. I don't think it is necessarily new or novel, but it is noteworthy and interesting nonetheless.
June 20th, 1974. I remember the flying cows....
Also to mention the 3 other plausible super outbreaks (32', 20', 1884) that all were centered in the south. No one mentions this suspiciously.
Well said, Jake.
April 28, 2014 is often a forgotten outbreak. In Mobile, specifically we got over a foot of rain with near historic hourly rainfall rates.
In my personal opinion, Tornado Alley is not shifting, it's just that Dixie Alley has more dangerous tornadoes in my opinion, maybe because of the moisture in the ocean fueling these powerful storms, like for example, the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico can fuel up these storms in the classic tornado alley. But I am not sure if I am explaining things 100% correctly.
You explain things just fine. It's to be expected that experts avoid using the term 'climate change' but clearly and unequivocally THAT is what is causing more tornadoes and violent weather in the United States.
@@marktwain368 Yeah, I just don't think we have enough proof yet, but there is a little proof that oceans are getting warmer, leading to more intense hurricanes.
Lol. The experts in this video just told you that there isn’t enough evidence to say one way or another, but here you are using words like clearly and unequivocally. People like you run on pure faith and personal belief just like an old school bible thumper.
I think you're going in the right direction. I personally think they've divided classic tornado alley into different regional alleys. Tornado alley seems to be where it's 'safer' to study with these colleges that specialize in it, but the other 3 (Dixie, Hoosier, and Carolina) regions with higher tornado activity have always been part of it, just not studied due to the higher risks.
Alot more trees in Dixie alley compared to tornado alley. More difficult to see coming. And denser population in Dixie
Basically the midwestern states got so sick of hearing Reed Timmer screaming his head off, they sent the tornados to the southeast. As if the tornadoes weren't bad enough.
Southeast: Thanks, y'all.
My question would be: what was tornado activity like during the Dust Bowl years in the 30’s? Was tornado activity noted to shift toward the east during that time period, due to the severe drought conditions? With crippling drought in the west, we seem to be seeing weather patterns currently, including some massive dust storms, that look similar to the 30’s. Seems logical to compare those records.
The only problem is that tornado records from the 30s are incredibly sparse and unreliable, especially the tornadoes in question further east they are often obscured by the dense trees with little to no spotters to report tornadoes in those areas. As mentioned in the video, we need more data, but this is certainly a fantastic point! There have been tons of incredibly dusty storms this year.
Pretty sure there was a super outbreak in the traditional Mississippi/Alabama area in 32'. Not a confirmable "super" outbreak due to low detection but there were still plenty tornadoes seen anyways to assume it were.
Ssssssssh! You're crashing the Climate Crisis Narrative....you'll be cancelled!
@@charlesnelson5187 you're an idiot if you genuinely believe that would "debunk" climate change
That's a great question. Too bad we don't have enough accurate weather data from that time.
The DEADLIEST tornadoes have ALWAYS happened in the East, not tornado alley. They hit at night and there are loads of trees and it is densely populated and you can't see them coming. Nothing new here.
As a teenager in SW Oklahoma in the 70's (long before storm chasers) ...we were the storm chasers. I saw 25 tornadoes on the ground in one 4 year stretch, including a twin tornado that we chased on the ground for 20 miles.
Every town between 20k -100k in a 100 mile radius of here was hit at one time or another.
Then they started hitting east of here and earlier. Moore, OKC. The storms would actually form down here and move NE and intensify.
Now the storms that used to form in the TX panhandle and rip through here. Form here, and rip through the central part of the state.. They are less frequent, but far more intense storm.
The shift seems to coincide with increasing long term drought conditions as well.
When the drought breaks, every storm that forms seems to be severe, like the one that formed here 3 days ago and dropped 4 inchs of rain in an hour with 85 mph straight line winds...from the east / ne, which never used to happen.
The temperature gradients when the fronts move through are also really extreme now. 30 degree drops in 10 minutes. That is a lot of energy. And when these fronts move east (into Arkansas, LA, even Georgia and Florida) they are way more intense.
Tornado alley is frequency,
Dixie alley is strength.
The longest tornado path length travelled at least 352 km (218 mi) through the US states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, on 18 March 1925.
Tri State tornado. I read about that one
-In theory-
Some other questions to keep in mind are: (1) Is the changes in frequency partly due to improved detection techniques in recent years? (2) Is the noticed frequency change due to improved reporting in recent years? - To what extent these changes affect the records is not known. What is known is that when modern climate and weather statistical records are amended to only include the same reporting locations as many decades ago the overall results are significantly changed. Thus it's not really possible to accurately compare periods unless you limit the comparison to records of only the same set of reporting locations, and this is very rarely done in the many reports we see.
@@wrngsurgeon Actually, the denial seems to be coming from you as you're totally denying the proven and recorded science as well as attacking anyone not supporting your view. Refusing to even consider or discuss issues takes a huge amount of denial.
I promote the concept of properly looking at all of the facts, and not pick and choose just to suit your agenda. When an examination of all of the facts in full is done, then you often get a different picture. This has been proven throughout history, yet many people ignore over half the facts today because they don't fit their personal agenda, and this is true in many areas.
Maybe warming ocean temps and increasingly humid air from the gulf of mexico combined with a shifting jet stream could cause the change
All I know is that I grew up south of Lawrence Ks and we had weekly weather systems come through spring/fall of mostly severe weather. I still live in eastern Ks and severe weather is quite a bit more rare and the weather tends to be dryer but with periods of heavy rain. It feels totally different from the 60's I grew up with.
California's weather along the I-80 corridor used to be clouds backing up against the Sierras and steady rain being squeezed out.
Then we got more thunderstorms, and even baby tornadoes.
My mother-in-law was born and raised in McKee, KY and I remember her telling us about the tornadoes she saw as a child, back in the late 1920's and 1930's, so this isn't new.
The Tri-State Tornado of March 18, 1925 killed 695 people in Missouri (11), Illinois (613), and Indiana (71). The outbreak it occurred with was also the deadliest known tornado outbreak, with a combined death toll of 747 across the Mississippi River Valley.
if the poles slowly shift over time everything else will shift as well not real hard to figure out XD
Tornados in Tornado Alley have to do with wide flat open regions next to the Rocky Mountains chain that direct the cold air from Canada along the wall that the Rockies form to the warm humid air from the south spreading through the immense flat land. The poles shifting is not stopping the poles from being colder than the south, the equator is still the hot region, so nothing to do with the pole shifting. It would be more logical to think of the change happening in air current movement in the atmosphere, and warm region getting hotter in average. We notice it a lot in Canada.
The poles do not shift. The MAGNETIC poles shift.
@@dennisdunton6530 COOL story
@@dennisdunton6530 That is actually true.
I think with the extended, prolonged drought in the southwest expanding north and east, the dry line is moving further east and the Gulf Stream along with it. Where these two systems collide is where tornadoes form. Here in California, we haven’t had a decent El Niño event in a decade. All of our land and lakes are drying up and we rely on El Niño to replenish our water supply. But El Niño also contributes to the water supply and drought ending effect on the rest of our nation as well. Without it, the drought expands to the east and with it the dry line. IMO.
maybe another "dust bowl" is coming.
@@Dratchev241, the government Corporation created the first one. They are purposely destroying nature.
might have something to do with how the magnetic north poles have been shifting more and more each year and accelerated rapidly since the 90's. it moves 50-60km every year in recent years but noone ever talks about that
Well Yea it doesn't fit into the global warming myth narrative hahaha
Right? We don’t know how the N/S shift will effect everything.
@@denverbasshead I’m glad to see at least one person in the comments forms evaluations using proper research &. critical thinking
Earth Changes Channel on YT talks about it.
@@maxbartertown global warming is not a myth. It is basic science. Higher levels of carbon in the atmosphere traps heat. This is not rocket science.
Not to mention - the police chief in Round rock Tx where a tornado hit recently- said in all his years there he’s never had issues like that there.
It was surreal here … very weird !
The wind storms and tornados in my part of Central TX has gotten bad the past year. Never had my house shake from wind, now it happens every few weeks it seems.
It’s not moving it’s expanding.
That’s what I was thinking
I believe that it was the earthquake in Japan that moved their coastline some 8 feet. It affected the Earth's axis as well. Then I saw a meteorologist who explained that it was similar to when you have a load of laundry unbalance in the washer. That seemed to be when Dixie Alley began to be hit more than usual. I'm just repeating what a meteorologist reported. Made sense to me.
That's definitely not true lol. Earthquakes do not influence weather in any way whatsoever. Also there have been several larger earthquakes in the past century alone.
The same has happened with snow fall in the state of Missouri. Snow falls sounth of St. Louis more in the last 15 years. St. Louis used to be the center of the snow path.
Finally an honest discussion regarding weather. Not knowing for sure means your honestly looking for the answer. Robert Castello Dixie General Store Heflin Alabama
We've been having a lot more tornados in houston lately, it used to be one every year or 2. Now it's turning into multiple during just one year. This year we had 2 tornados go by my house in the same night. I used it as an excuse to call into work lol.
I remember as a kid growing up in the 80s that we would get severe thunderstorms all the time in spring & summer! Also remember the tornado siren blaring a lot! In the 1990s too... But these days an actual thunderstorm seems rare. It's almost June and I think we only had one tiny thunderstorm with only a few small flashes of lightning. This is for southeast Wisconsin... Milwaukee. And last summer we were getting hit by a drought too. The ponds at the horse ranch were almost dry. We had a lot of rain the other week - only rain and no thunderstorm - so they have filled up for the moment.
I live in the North Eastern US, and it seems that over the past few years thunderstorms have gotten more common, and extreme.
@@the1natester734 my penpal lives in PA and they already had many days of 90s. Hot humid weather. We have it chilly here. Lots of 60s. I guess we are having a cool summer? Lucky if it gets into the 70s or 80s it seems. Last year we had a nice hot spring & summer but still almost no thunderstorm.
@@the1natester734 I also live in PA and Lancaster county is getting less severe storms in the last few years.
@@sarahb.6475 Strange, crazy how much weather can vary within a fairly small distance.
Here in Southern Ontario Canada we are seeing a tendency toward tornado weather that is not typical. There seems to be wide variability in air masses and jet stream patterns that cause unpredictable weather events.
Yes the dry line that has traditionally been over Texas is moving east and south
When you live in tornado alley you don't build your home out of wood like 98% of the state is.
Why is it that rock homes from the 1800s still standing but the wooden house from 2000 was rebuild 20 times.
You do when it costs thousands and thousands of more dollars to build out of stone. Much cheaper to build a storm shelter. Besides, the chances of a tornado destroying your home even in tornado alley is very slim
So the children's story of The Three Little Pigs is actually a metaphor for unpredictable and violent weather?
It is not shifting, it is just getting bigger. Also, it was always bigger than we thought. For example, in 1936, 2 tornadoes, 1 in Tupelo Mississippi and another was in Gainesville Georgia. Also, tornadoes there were obscured until recent technoligy came out. Remember to keep safe wherever you are.
I'm going to canada
I've been in 2 tornadoes in Virginia. Buddy of mine is from Oklahoma, so I asked him what it was like to live in "Tornado Alley" and he said he's never even seen a tornado..... IN OKLAHOMA!!!
The deadliest tornados happen in areas where there are no basements.
100% agree, this is sadly why so many Dixie outbreaks have such a high fatality # in my opinion
Can't dig basements in most of Oklahoma due to the clay and high water table. At least that's my understanding
Or trailer parks
I live in Canada in the Province of Quebec. We occasionally get tornados in Quebec and in southern Ontario west of us. It is estimated that Canada sees 60 tornados every year, although the true number is suspected to be as high as 200. Years ago, I recall reading that Quebec received around 40 tornados every year but most were north of populated areas (say 600 to 700 miles north of New York city) and the evidence was only seen by airline pilots noting swathes of forest flattened by what had clearly been a tornado leaving a path of destruction.
Didn't you have a wicked one in Saskatoon where it danced around a huge grain mill about 2 or 3 times and leveled it, then clobbered a few homes and made a terrible mess. I can't remember the story very well but I was surprised you got tornados that far north.
@@leftylou6070 I think the tornado you're talking about is the Elie, Manitoba tornado. It was Canadas only EF-5.
@@MrMah-zf6jk That hits a button, Thanks.
Tornado alley moves every year. It starts closer to the gulf coast. Then it shifts north. Then it moves back to the coast at the other end of the season.
I grew up in Texas and can barely remember ever getting warnings there. I now live in Illinois and have been really surprised by the amount of warnings we have gotten in just the two years since moving here
In northwest Indiana throughout the last 3 years we have had quite a few Tornado warnings. As a Child growing up I don't remember it. And I surely would have because as a child I was tariffed of bad storms, but they were rare. This spring alone we have had 2 tornado warnings already.
Only my anecdotal opinion but living in or around Wichita Ks for 62 years, we’ve only sheltered twice in the six years we’ve lived in our new home. Something is different. Also, the prevailing wind pattern is different. Summer winds were typically south west. Now they are from the south east.
I've noticed that the winds aren't so reliably from the west as well. Last 2 years, there's been a stronger easterly component to the surface winds. Weather patterns are still westerly in the higher levels though. Could be a product of desertification in the southwest - soaking up the moisture in the air.
Too many huge industrial facilities. Weather is about energy. 15 acre parking lots and 200,000 square foot roofs generate a lot of heat. I our area, there is usually a 15 to 20 degree difference in temperature. We are in a rural area. The hot spot is 10 miles away. In recent years, the town there has annexed property where a Walmart distribution center and an industrial park have been built.
They've been having tornadoes in Italy, France, and Germany this year
Where I live used to be considered a big part of the traditional Tornado Alley for a long time, and I too feel like the severe weather has largely shifted eastward. I'd liken the weather we get now to desert-type weather in the states west of us. The hot summers and cold winter nights aren't fun, but it's nice living in a place that feels like it has four seasons for once. Last fall was pretty mild and comfortable, the winter came and brought a few nice snow showers where I am, and this past spring was comfortable and brought some much-needed rainshowers and very few dangerous storms.
I'd say Tornado Alley isn't shifting. It's just that Dixie Alley has become much more active in the last 15 years, with results being more devastating since many of us cannot have basements or in-ground storm shelters. This has shifted notice in the public eye.
oh it's due to that many of you just "cant have basements" anymore? why is that?
See my above comment. There are many changes happening, and it is a ripple effect.
@@austinno202 a large part of The South within a couple hundred miles of the coast, (both Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico) have a water table not very far under the surface.
@@NOLAgenX also the number of cities within a certain mile radius from the Memphis fault line. At least, that’s what I was taught in school. (I live pretty close to the fault)
i grew up in Alabama most of the year expect for summer and Christmas when I would visit family but as far as I remember tornados were common for serve storms even though one hasn't hit my hometown yet i saw what it to a portion of my mom's city luckily no one was killed this was during the us lockdown seeing it hit somewhere close to my heart made me even more respectful to the weather than before
My grandma was born and raised in Oklahoma and survived 5 tornados (2 F5s) during her childhood there before marrying, moving around a bit and later settling in Indiana where we live now. Poor woman just can't catch a break its like the tornados followed her
Did tornado alley also shift during the Great Depression / Dust Bowl? I noticed the area goes through periodic dry periods every 20 or so years. Maybe there is there a 100 yr severe drought cycle in the US?
My wife and I were direct victims of an F3 tornado on July 29th 2021. This happened here in a small town called Trevose which lies right next to Northeast Philadelphia, PA. Our home sustained over $30K in damage and our cars were pretty beat up too. We somewhat jokingly now refer to this as the new tornado ally. Sure hope we are wrong!
Was that your first tornado in PA? I live directly opposite from you, in the hilly Pittsburgh area. I’ve never seen a tornado in my life nor has one been here since I have been alive. But there are sometimes warnings. More warnings recently it seems.
@@Angela-tx7hb Pa has had them before but not in the Philadelphia area that I am aware of. I was on the side porch watching the storm when I came to realize rain shouldn't go side ways! Didn't see the "funnel" shape as it was raining at the time and I was just mesmerized by the amount of wind, and significant debris that was swirling all around us. I estimate the tornado was about 50 feet from my house at the time. The aftermath while walking around was a serious brain overload event! What a mess!
About a month later, there was an F3 in Gloucester Co. NJ just Southeast of Philadelphia. That was spawned from the remnants of Ida.
@@Angela-tx7hb We've had more than a few in the Susq valley. There were a few in Lancaster and Franklin Cos just the other week. They're far more common in PA than people realize, but they do tend to be short lived and are usually heavily rain-wrapped.
I live in Houston and we are like sandwiched in between two TORNADO ALLEY.
Thanks for keeping to the science. Great story!
"When you live in tornado alley, you can never underestimate the potential for destruction." Try
"overestimate."
Could also include all the tornadoes popping up in New Jersey as of recently.
maybe because the poles are going to flip soon.magnetic north is on the move and has been for sometime..
That was a local news report? We need more of this guy all over the place. Very well done.
I've noticed over the past five or 10 years that my county has been put in more watches and warnings for a severe thunderstorm which I find fascinating because most of the time they turn out not to be severe. Is weather just becoming more unpredictable than before or are the authorities operating on a more cautious approach. Hope everybody stays safe out there with this wild weather!
It most certainly is shifting east, but it won't be fast, nor will it be steady progress. There will always be outbreaks in the more traditional "tornado" alley, but overall, the statistics are showing it is shifting. Current tornado alley still has the most tornadoes by far, but the frequency is decreasing in that area, and increasing in frequency farther east.
Been saying and seeing this for years
I would call it more expanding than shifting.
The amount of tornados popping up in California is slowly increasing. We had one go through Riverside where i grew up in i think 2009, it came down near march air reserve base and crossed the freeway knocking over a train car.
There is something of an eastward shift of "Dixie Alley" as Georgia and South Carolina are seeing tornadoes more frequently now than in the past. It's hard to define exact boundaries for something like this so no argument either way can be solid yet; that will only happen in retrospect after 10+ years have gone by. Climate change is occurring in the SE USA but again the cause can't be solidly argued yet. Just be sure we're going to have more tornadoes and more frequently here than we've had in the past because that trend is already happening.
I live in Arkansas and most all tornadoes here happen at night and the twisters are rain wrapped.
I've lived in Ohio my whole life and it seems like we have been getting more tornadoes in recent years. In fact we just had several move through the state a few days ago.
Shifting? No I think it is Spreading, KS, NE, OK and TX still get theirs and now the SouthEast is getting them too earlier in the Season.
Yeah that's true, but the Southeast has always been a very dangerous place in terms of tornado damage and deaths. If you look at the data, most of the F3-F5 long track tornadoes have occurred in the southeast. But it's true it's happening more frequently and over longer periods of the seasons. As for here in the Dallas, Tx. area, I don't think there are any more, or any fewer tornadoes each year, on average anyway. El Nino years we have more, La Nina years we have less. But every spring and fall, we have numerous tornadoes in the area, mostly F0-F1, but occasionally an F3, about every four or five years.
You are absolutely right!
Anything to do with the geomagnetic poles shifting??
Tornadoes here in MS seems to be an all year thing. We have our busy season but we do get some tornadoes in the off season as well. Our last winter tornado being near christmas was the first time I've seen a tornado that late in the year. We not only had one but 10 that day around the state.
Missippi if ian mistaking has had the most tornadoes this year. Either way easily top 3 states for tornadoes last few years.
In the last year the jet stream patterns have changed, creating more t-storms & tornados in Dixie Alley.
I'm in Hoosier Alley. Here in Southern Indiana, we get the leftovers from what goes through Western Kentucky. So I always keep an eye on that area when watches and warnings spring up. Gets a little edgy at times in the Spring and around November. 🥺
From living in Kansas for 29 years, I have noticed that it gets warmer later and stays warmer later, thru November. Used to freeze by early to middle of October. We still have highs in the 60's every now and then and it's June. Maybe their 365 day calendar is off??? Don't know.
It's generally accepted that the Earth is spinning faster at the present moment!
There have been 3 tornadoes in our area this season. No sirens and we've had trees down. Sheds relocated and Metal buildings destroyed. By the way don't build metal buildings. Pretty sure nothing above EF1 but would be nice to know if there is one coming before I let my dogs out to play.
We used to get tornadoes in the spring in Alabama in the late 60's, early 70's when I was a kid. We moved to Washinton State in 75. No tornados there!
I’m nearly 50 years old and have lived in Ontario Canada all of my life. In the last 10 years or so we are starting to see tornado’s here. Most of them are not that powerful but, the fact is we never had them before.
The Earth's tilt is responsible for the shift. It's changing.
Lately they are also starting to drop in Europe more often and 2 damaging ones dropped in Germany couple weeks ago. 1 person actually died
Tornadoes in Germany is alarming and portends difficult weather ahead for Europe. Same with the flooding.
Here in SW Oklahoma, tornado sirens went off 2-3 times in 1 day here about 3 weeks ago. First we heard them in a year.
I lived in Lawton for years and felt pretty safe and prepared for tornadoes. I can't say the same about central FL...
Also more tornadoes in southwestern Ontario.
(that’s in Canada. Canada borders the US)
I live in Tornado Alley & we have not even had a watch or siren warning !
I live in Louisville, Ky and the weather here has always been kinda crazy but it’s noticeably getting worse and worse every year with these tornadoes. Its kinda normal now to get 70-80 mph wind gust during storms now.
It all changed in the year of 2010 when the earth tilted 40 miles N one day.and the same year the jet stream dropped from its normal now it has dropped so much people are blind as to what is happening and gonna happen N the near future. We all can expect 2 C wind storms in excess of 300 plus mph across a big portion of EARTH .
Nonsense. If the earth shifted so drastically than why do my sundials still work? What about sun in the northern and southern regions? Still the same. Why if the poles moved so fast didn’t we see the sloshing effect of the 13 mile bulge of water on the equator? Why does the sun still set like clockwork on the same ridge I’ve watched it set over for my whole life?
Ummmmm. No.
😂🤣 If so the weather systems in the UK haven't changed one bit at all rain, rain and more rain.
Do records not show whether the drought in the central States/Tornado Alley in the 1920s/1930s led to a reduction in tornados in the area and if there was a corresponding increase in other parts of the US. Surely the moisture that would normally keep the plains watered had to fall somewhere else.
I'm sure glad I live in Oregon. We rarely even get the tiny F-0's.
Where can I look up architectural design for homes against tornadoes
One word: concrete.
We had golf ball sized hail in the Northeast. Seven decades here and have never seen that before.
Tornados...head spin...I see what you did there 😉 Thanks for posting this, its interesting and scary. Our biggest weather here is hurricanes but we will be moving to TN. Tornadoes scare me much more than hurricanes so now, maybe we won't move.
Nah. J/K. TN is worth a little bit more anxiety. Its gorgeous and the people are great.
I have intriguing thoughts for you. I am a photographer and have been for thirty years. I am a citizen Scientist that focuses on solar weather and how it effects all aspects of our life. One thing I have noticed over the last five years is that the sun is not rising or setting in the same spot. You might think me crazy, but the Alaskan tribal elders have been noticing the same thing. Since they depend on sun and stars to navigate around, slight changes are noticed. It would not have to be a big shift on earth, to make it seem like the sun moved by miles. Object further way will always appear moved the most when you shift position. A shift in earths tilt of mere inches will have huge impact, for example making changes in jet stream which moves storms. We also are contending with a weaking of our Magnetic shields as our planet is under going our own polar shift which has not happened for over 400,000 years. The increase in solar particles and space particles making through the magnetosphere to bombard earths surface may influence storms. I know the electric magnetic energy can influence lightning. Add to that the plains have rock that absorbs this bombardment of particles, where is the Appalachian Mountains are made of dense rock that reflects some of this bombardment back up instead of allowing it pass into earth. All those particles and increased magnetic energy might account for more storm propagation. It sounds like I am throwing a lot at the wall hoping something will stick, but I am not. In Natural world everything is connected. For example Yellowstone wolf study, where everything changed in the eco system when they added wolves into the eco system, it came back into balance and it had impact on weather. Nothing stands alone, even the smallest change in our world can have huge effects. Stands to reason that if earth tilted just a bit say 4 inches, it would change the jet steam, which in turn would move storms. If because of the weakening magnetic shields more particles and magnetic energy was hitting earth, and that energy was being reflected up, directly under where storms were trying to form it would increase the strength of these storms. Hence more storms in the east.
I do not agree with Global Warming argument, it is invalid because it misses a huge parts of the equation. Mainly the effect Volcanos and the sun have on our climate. We have a more than few Volcanos lifting ash high enough into atmosphere that will act like a gigantic windshield reflector, reflecting Sun's warming rays away from earth. this will cool planet for a number of years. The polar shifts on earth will move earths crust around, and it will cause more volcanic activity. We know because we have studies what took out the dinosaurs. Which says meteor hit planet, raised dust high into atmosphere and also shifted earths crusts, which increased volcanic activity, in turn all that ash and chemicals high in atmosphere shield earth from Sun, and suddenly cooled planet which killed off plant life, which means no food and mass die off of life. Now back to current day with a with a looming Solar Grand Minimum, which we know from historical records turns our planet cold not hot. Combining in solar and volcanos the argument that Heating in our planet become invalid. It is just a normal cycle of heating and cooling the planet under goes. Earth cycles happen in thousands to millions of years, man's studies often become invalid because they focus on a small period of time. You will never get it right if your understanding Earths cycles and weather is so myopic. There is a need to pull information from Geology, Archeology, paleontology, historical records, and solar science to really understand Weather. Time to take off blinders and see the bigger picture. When you take your current data, and look back over time in a lengthy sense, you will find the answers to why the change. In many little inconsequential changes that by themselves don't seem to matter much, but when you see how each little change feeds the next change to make big weather changes. Volcano here, earthquake there that shifts earths tilt, little electro magnetic energy change, cooling of ocean there, can all equate to major weather change.
Ive been following all that same info and agree with you. I encourage people that swear by global warming/climate change to look into other schools of thought. Solar minimum and maximum and global history, not just the weather records that started in the late 1800’s.
With the melting of the Arctic, the jet stream and ocean currents change. Duh
The Georgia guidestones were set in 1980 I think. There's a lot of precise exact setups on those stones to where the sun and sunlight passes through certain sections. If the Earth had shifted all of that would be off.
Aristotle famously wrote, "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know." However; ego prevents all but a few ever realizing; let alone admitting, this applies to them. Most become all the more entrenched in the findings/learnings of their individual endeavors. The real truth of any given thing is buried beneath individual or group beliefs. Politics, personal gain and/or glory, peer pressure, engrained belief systems drive what becomes accepted as the truth; however distorted. Western Science attempts to overcome these distortions but is itself at a disadvantage as both the obvious need for flawed human administration and the necessity of disproving what was thought to be the facts in the past before a new theory can be accepted (always a two-edged sword) as any condition which receives wide anecdotal acceptance won't receive any recognition until what was 'established as scientific fact before has been officially refuted. If doubt persists, they that must be obeyed kick the can down the road.
I have to agree with you, Peggy Zinn! I’m not a scientist but I too have noticed that the sun’s movement has changed. I live in California and spend a great deal of time in my west facing backyard and noticed that the sunset is increasingly moving more northward. It used to set between the two chimneys of my neighbors behind my house. Now, it sets near the third house north of that and directly in my eyes! The chimneys used to block it from my eyes. As you mentioned, it’s subtle but it’s there.
Also, during the Boxing Day Sumatra earthquake and subsequent tsunami of 2004 that killed hundreds of thousands of people, the news reported that the earthquake was so large in length and powerful that it stopped nuclear clocks and the Earth’s rotation for a few nanoseconds! Within a couple of weeks, California received a whole year’s worth of rain (more than 14 inches) in the just the month of January! This was without an El Niño event that usually causes our huge rain events. We’ve been pretty much in a drought ever since.
I also agree with you about global warming. The Earth has natural cycles of hot and cold centuries. The thing I find most alarming is the massive increase in volcanic activity! I’m 70 years old and I’ve never seen so many volcano activations in my lifetime. So much so, that I’ve started tracking the numbers. This increase of volcanic eruptions surely will put enough emissions into the atmosphere the cause global cooling. One single eruption in 1815 caused the year without a summer! Europe actually had snow in the summer. I don’t know how much that one event’s ramifications effected the globe for that year.
I also grew up in Oklahoma near Moore (tornado alley central). As a preteen, I was able to predict a tornado to my brother while we were outside playing. It was a very hot day, not a breath of wind, not a cloud in the sky and I noticed a pressure change. I also noticed I wasn’t seeing any ants, flies, birds or animal sounds and our dog was abnormally quiet and laying low in a corner of our yard that he didn’t usually lay in. The pressure change was weird how it affected my ears and there was a pushing down feeling. I told my brother that there was a tornado on the way. He thought I was nuts! So, I asked him if he heard any animal sounds. Did he see any birds or bugs? In Oklahoma, there’s always an abundance of insects and birds. He said, “No.” I asked him if his hearing sounded muffled. He said, “Yes.” I told him a tornado was coming. Within a few short hours, the wind kicked up, the temperature cooled way down and it began to rain. The sky turned a yellow green and hail began to fall. We had a tornado within a few miles of us very shortly thereafter. He listened to me after that!
Alabama and Mississippi has always been infamous for having some of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded
Mississippi and Alabama are part of Dixie Alley which is "like" Tornado Alley in the south.
If you live in any Tornado prone area, It would be wise to prepare and have a plan. My first suggestion is to move. Second advice get a weather channel radio and keep it on. Sign up for alerts from friends. Tornadoes are no joke.
Tornadoes can happen anywhere. Move away from a "prone" area, and you can get hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires. As someone who's lived in a tornado prone area of Indiana for 40 years, we pay close attention to threatening weather, keep a police scanner going (which has a citizen weather watcher band), watch for updrafts, and stay alert. We've had severe roof damage, were barely missed by a tornado which hit three blocks away, had a tree go through my son's best friend's bedroom window, (he was thankfully not in the room!), and watched siding and debris fly past. We have an incredibly stout basement (built in 1895) if needed. Shelter isn't an option in hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires.
Tornado damage destroyed several houses four miles from my home last summer and I am right across the Delaware river from Philadelphia International airport living in New Jersey .
Yes it is, it moved east to Tennessee, which is actually much more deadly, hills make them impossible to see coming before its to late
Dixie Alley has always been a hyperactive region for deadly tornadoes. This region can get tornadoes any time of year; Winter/Spring outbreaks peak in March through May but also occur in January and February. A secondary peak occurs in November and December. And tornadoes also occur in this region during landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms. Traditional tornado alley has a shorter but more predictable and intense peak from March through June. Nothing has shifted and if anything the Super Outbreak of April 27th 2011 has weighted the data to favor Dixie Alley for the time being.
Vernal equinox was 4 days earlier this year, over 1000 years there will be 22.5 years more daylight this doesn't count for future additional day light within 24 hours. What actually is the tilt of the earth right now?
I'm from Kansas, but I live in Tennessee. The closest I've ever been to a tornado is in Tennessee.( West & middle)
During the 60's the USA had a population of just over 150 million people. Now as towns and cities have grown and spread to a USA population of just over 350 million
people - there's more buildings in the tornado alleys to get damaged.
Exactly. Another downside of overpopulation
Nothing is changing. The "Tornado Alley" was very subjective to begin with. All the maps are somewhat different. Different weather patterns produce different areas of higher risk. Prime areas over the years have been the Midwest and South. Other areas do get them though, just not as often.
I agree. I think the true answer is that Tornado Alley is not something mother nature came up with. Violent tornadoes are a possibility in both the Midwest and the Southeast. The bigger shock would be a higher occurrence in New England or the West coast.
yeah ive never heard of "dixie alley" and i live in it, growing up tornado alley has always been just a big zone in which lots of tornados could form
Tornado alley has always been a shifting area of likeliness for tornados throughout the year that sweeps from West to East from Spring into Fall.
What tornado 🌪️ is this 0:18? I love to see longer version of that video
I hear so much BS from the scientific community regarding weather, space, medicine, etc! I applaud you for your answer here!, it is finally the true answer to almost everything , and it is seldom heard! So ty!
The biggest outbreak of tornadoes happened in the south in 2011.. they like to happen down here at night
I grew up in KY with all my family in AL. I can promise you, we have always had tornados. 🙄 Clickbait title.
This is highly over simplified. I live in eastern Missouri, part of the traditional tornado alley. it's not flat and we've had tornadoes at all different hours of the day. When I was a kid, one caused a plane to crash at the St Louis Airport on approach. Killed everyone on board. 2 weeks ago we had a day with 5 tornadoes on the same day and one took off the roof of a house 3 doors from me and trashed the house across the street from the one that lost it's roof, so bad, they condemned the house. Tornadoes are alive and well in tornadoes alley. I lived in Kansas City for 5 years and we had destructive tornadoes every year I lived there. 4th of July is a perfect time for a tornado. If anything tornado alley is expanding.
The magnetic pole reversal and double wobble are in play here. Shifting jet stream possibly too.
That's right!, it's everything except those billion dollar corporations.