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Record Number of Tornadoes in the NWS Chicago Forecast Area in 2023

• spdustin 3y ago
  One of the Feb 27 tornadoes hit my house. Came out of nowhere.
  • Loughla 3y ago
    The house we just sold got smoked by hail in that storm. 118k in damage just from hail. It was nuts.
• deleted 3y ago
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• hm-nah 3y ago
  What are the tornado (or extreme weather in general) stats for other States (the world)?
  • xbmcuser 3y ago
    these really powerful local tornadoes on land are uniquely a USA thing from what I have read as no where else do hot winds from the equator and cold winds from the poles meet directly like this over land
    • matttproud 3y ago
      You might enjoy these: https://mrcc.purdue.edu/gismaps/cntytorn https://mrcc.purdue.edu/gismaps/cntytorn and http://www.usa.com/rank/oklahoma-state--tornado-index--city-rank.htm http://www.usa.com/rank/oklahoma-state--tornado-index--city-... (Oklahoma-specific, but there are other localities in the data set)