Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Slow Boil to Tornado Season



Despite recent tornadoes in Missouri, Texas, Mississippi and North Carolina, among other states, we have set a new record for a lack of stronger tornadoes-to-date in 2014.

Through April 21, not one tornado of EF3 intensity or stronger has been observed anywhere in the U.S., the latest wait for the first such tornado in any year on record dating to 1950, according to the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

March 31, 2002 was the previous record latest date of the season's first F3 or EF3 tornado. The Enhanced-Fujita scale replaced the original Fujita Scale on Feb. 1, 2007.


The last U.S. tornado of EF3 intensity or stronger was during the Nov. 17, 2013 outbreak in the Midwest, making this a five-month stretch without one.

Read more...
http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/record-latest-first-ef3-tornado-2014-20140408

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