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Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas , South Dakota , Iowa and Nebraska .
AccuWeather says that Tornado Alley has historically consisted of northern Texas northward through Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri and parts of Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska and eastern Colorado ...
Nebraska's highest-recorded temperature was 118 °F (48 °C) in Minden on July 24, 1936. The state's lowest-recorded temperature was −47 °F (−44 °C) in Camp Clarke on February 12, 1899. Nebraska is located in Tornado Alley. Thunderstorms are common during both the spring and the summer.
Parts of Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska, eastern Colorado and the northern part of Texas are considered part of the alley. ... Commonly there are more tornadoes in tornado alley, but Southern states ...
Only three whole states are part of tornado alley: Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Parts of Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska, eastern Colorado and the northern part of Texas are considered part of the alley.
Large outbreak produced multiple strong-to-violent tornadoes, including a long–tracked F5 tornado killed four in Nebraska and an F4 tornado that struck Metro Detroit in Macomb County, before continuing into Lambton County in Ontario, killing 11. (45 significant, 3 violent, 2 killer) [69] Hurricane Hilda tornado outbreak: October 3–4, 1964
A tornado watch has been issued for parts of western Oklahoma and northwest Texas until 1 p.m. Saturday, with the potential for tennis ball-sized hail and winds reaching up to 70 mph, per CNN.
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.