Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward
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Tornado outbreaks are moving from Texas and Oklahoma toward Tennessee and Kentucky, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In
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- Tornado outbreaks are moving from Texas and Oklahoma toward Tennessee and Kentucky,
- from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In the past decade or so tornadoes have become prevalent in eastern Missouri and Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and northern ...
- multiple twisters spawned by a single weather system—are shifting even more definitively to the east
- Why is this shift happening now?
- Tornadoes also are more likely to develop when the local atmosphere is unstable, “and warming increases instability,
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