Busy spring severe weather season slowly wanes

Tornados confirmed by Radar went through parts of western Wisconsin on Thursday. Tornado warning boxes were issued through Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The severe spring weather season is running out, but leaves a trace of destruction, after one of the most active periods for tornado activity in more than a decade.

Between the beginning of March and the end of May, the Storm Prediction Center received more than 900 preliminary tornado reports, significantly above the seasonal average of around 600, based on historical data of the 90s and 2000s.

Despite the activity, the year in a relatively quiet note, with January only seeing 20 tornado reports, followed by 41 in February, both below the average.

April proved to be the busiest months of the year for tornadoes, with 351 reported throughout the country.

The count made per month the third most registered April, behind only 2024 and 2011.

The most intense tornado outbreak of the season occurred in mid -March, when the energy of an event of the Atmospheric River fed a developing storm system, which produced more than 100 tornadoes, including at least Fujit. Scale.

The absence of EF-5 tornadoes may be due to damage evaluations, not to changes in climatic patterns

The largest number of tornadoes a single outbreak occurred in early April, when more than 150 tornados crossed a large part of the central United States.

The most fatal event occurred in May, since the violent storms extended by Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky, killing at least 27 people.

The duration of the most destructive tornado that the outbreak crossed London, Kentucky, and was qualified EF4, with estimated winds of 170 mph, according to the National Meteorological Service.

Despite the devastation, the EF4 Twister in the state of Bluegrass was not the strongest of the year: that distinction belongs to a tornado that occurred near Díaz, Arkansas, in mid -March.

Wind speed duration EF4 was estimated at less than 190 mph, which is only 10 mph less than an EF5 is designated.

Fortunately, the tornado saved important population centers, and no deaths were connected to the event.

Statistics on two EF-4 tornadoes in Arkansas on March 14, 2025.

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Notable, there are no F5 leg tornadoes reported in 2025, continuing a 12 -year -old drought in the most violent category of a tornado.

The last EF5 tornado in the United States hit Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013, with winds of around 210 mph.

Some researchers argue that topography methods have led FEER EF5 classifications, instead of a genuine change in climatic patterns.

During the first five months of the year, Missouri and Illinois have seen the largest number of tornadoes, with initial 105 and 104, respectively.

These are totally well above those of the traditional states prone to tornadoes such as Kansas and Oklahoma, which reinforces a growing consensus among some forecasts that “Tornado Alley” is changing.

Why Tornado Alley is changing east

End of spring does not mean the end of the severe climate

Just although weather spring in May, severe climatic threats do not disappear with the calendar turn.

The thunderstorms can affect the majority of the lowest 48 throughout the year, but the generalized events triggered by cold fronts become less frequent in the southern US. UU. As summer cling.

Duration The summer months, severe climatic threats often express from different atmospheric phenomena, such as derechos collisions and be Breeze.

Rights are complex of long -lived electric storms, which either travel along the edge of high pressure systems.

Right climate pattern map

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Further south, the interactions of the marine breeze of the activity of almost daily thunderstorms in Florida and the Gulf coast.

Later in the season, tropical cyclones can enter the image, some of which can produce tornado doxes, but tornado shoots associated with tropical systems do not occur annually.

June is still an active month for tornadoes, especially in the northern plains, he thought there is a decrease in activity in the activity in July.

A secondary season of severe weather generally returns to the south in November and December, since the frontal limits return before winter.

Average tornadoes per month.

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