Why The United States Gets SO MANY Tornadoes And Is Tornado Alley Moving?

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Tornadoes are not unique to the United States. But they do occur within the United States with greater frequency and strength than anywhere else on the planet due to a unique combination of geographic features. In today's episode, we discuss why the U.S. gets so many tornadoes, where they also occur elsewhere in the world, and why Alabama is actually one of the deadliest areas in the world for tornadoes.
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[@sandie1166]

Where we live we have two tornado seasons. Spring and fall.

[@cielrobinson]

Great video! Ties together two of my big interests. New subsciber here. :)
This may be political to some, but- the increased prevalence of lower income housing, particularly mobile home parks, is a BIG contributor to tornado casualties and devastation in the South, as well as states like KY where I'm from. Impoverished areas are less likely to have infrastructure such as community storm shelters, or personal weather radios or shelters. Residents trying to flee unsafe housing like mobile homes can lead to traffic getting jammed to a standstill and leaving them without any shelter at all. Sometimes they end up trapped right in the tornado's path while their home remains untouched.
In addition to the greater number of nighttime tornadoes, most of the tornadoes in the Southeast are higher precipitation storms. It can be very hard to identify a high precipitation tornado, even when it's almost on top of you, since visibility is severely reduced. Particlarly factoring the hills and the tree cover, it is often unclear if a tornado is even on the ground at all or is just an ominous cloud.
All the best photogenic tornado videos tend to be from the more arid states because they're much easier to see, during the day, with a higher cloud base and a distinct condensation funnel. They frequently can be watched from a safe distance by experienced chasers. However, many storm chasers don't risk it going after storms in areas with lots of trees and hills because it can be very difficult (and thus dangerous) to keep track of a tornado and its behaviour.

[@WizardToby]

As a meteorologist, this was a pretty accurate video. And I already saw the new Twisters movie. Definitely a cool movie for weather nerd types of people XD

[@Emanuel_carey]

20:41 technically speaking, there could be an EF5 in a field.. but if there’s no damage; then that’s what gives it, its EF-u

[@MissRobbiOKC]

Yes, as a matter of fact that happened in SW Oklahoma earlier this year. According to wind speed it was in the EF-5 category, but (thankfully) it was confined to a small area of real estate that was in a field with no buildings. The tornado was erratic. it moved from west to east, then looped back to the northwest. It was quite interesting to watch on radar.

[@friendoengus]

let's keep in mind that the word _unique_ is an 'absolute term'
this means it can have no qualifiers like 'really' unique' or 'more' unique or 'not so' unique
absolute terms are black or white
as unique literally means 'one of a kind' so a thing either is one of a kind or it is not, but for sure a thing can not be 'really' one of a kind
once one realizes this, it is amazing to hear that the word is nearly universally mis-applied
perhaps folks thing it means 'special' which can have degrees, 'really special' makes sense
one then sees that the word is a tell, indicating the speaker is not well-educated
(it is different than the pronunciation of _antipodes_ which we know has at least two proper pronunciations
with _unique,_ one is either using the word correctly or using it incorrectly)

[@friendoengus]

and now, back to tornadoes
please forgive the digression

[@statikcitten9]

​@@friendoengusNo, no- please go on, I'm here for the lessons!

[@Emanuel_carey]

11:08 not true. Joplin was multiple vortex tornado. Jerrell Texas tornado was a multiple vortex as well. They are often referred to as the “deadman walk”, in the weather community. It’s said that if you see one, death is near

[@theblacklexluthor11]

Before I hear the answer I say Missouri or Texas

[@adrianharies9849]

Gonna say Alabama