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A survey by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy found, "7% of youth used alcohol the first time they had sex, and 6% used alcohol the most recent time they had sex." [ 40 ] In another study, teens aged 15–19 accounted for 15.5% of abortions in 2009, and patients aged 20–24 made up 32.7%.
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
The tornado was the first of two EF4 tornadoes during the tornado outbreak of April 25–28, 2024. The tornado reached peak intensity in the neighborhood of Elkhorn and south of the city of Blair, leading the National Weather Service in Omaha, Nebraska to assign a rating of low-end EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale , with maximum wind speeds ...
The tornado was among at least 1,735 tornadoes that occurred across the country in 2024, according to SPC data. The total is more than 40% higher than the typical number of tornadoes seen in an ...
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 .
On average, 72% of all tornado-related fatalities occur in homes, 54% of which are in mobile homes, according to the National Weather Service. Someone in a mobile home is 15 to 20 times more ...
February had slightly above-average levels of tornado activity with 46 tornadoes. Many of those tornadoes occurred much further north than is typical for the month, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, including Wisconsin, which experienced tornadoes in February for the first time since modern record began in 1950. About half of the ...
The NWS has not released information on where and when the tornado dissipated because U.S. 40 by the airport and other roads north of London were impassable at the time of their survey. The EF2 ...