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A map of the tornadoes and straight-line wind damage reports from April 2, 2024. Many areas of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia were put on flood watches prior to the event. [115] [116] In West Virginia, there were dozens of reports of straight-line wind damage along with the tornadoes.
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 .
In the United States, the year started off somewhat slow with a below average number of tornadoes through the first three months. However, the El Niño pattern that was in place during that period weakened in April; the pattern shift caused the more traditional Tornado Alley zone to rapidly become extremely favorable for tornado outbreaks, and several large outbreaks occurred in late spring.
May 2, 2024 at 7:11 AM. ... Areas with increases include states outside historical “Tornado Alley,” such as Alabama, Kentucky and Mississippi.
The tornado in Bourbon County reached maximum wind speeds of 105 miles per hour south of Paris, according to the NWS. The tornado traveled roughly 13.4 miles and crossed into Clark County. It had ...
A building near the corner of Versailles Road and Bennett Avenue sustained damage during storms in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Branches are down afte a storm passed through ...
This long-tracked, high-end EF3 tornado paralleled I-69 along its path, striking some of the same areas affected by the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado. [101] It touched down at 8:01 PM (00:01 UTC) in Lyon County, Kentucky , just northeast of Eddyville and moved eastward across US 641 at high-end EF1 intensity, snapping trees, damaging a home ...
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