2010: A Tornadoless Odyssey

UPDATE: A late tornado report has been added and the "zero" record is no longer valid.

UPDATE: We have also issued an official news story, saying:

UPDATE: NOAA has put out a blog on this. They also point out that "in 2003, we started out with no tornadoes in the first 45 days of the year. Even as late as 29 April, it was the slowest start in the database."

February went by without a tornado according to stats from the Storm Prediction Center, marking this the first February in recorded tornado history (since 1950) to do so. (Credit to Meteo Madness Man for this tidbit). Since 2000, there have been between 2 and 146 tornadoes in the month, averaging 35, according to their monthly summaries. In addition, this is the slowest February since 2000 for severe weather in general, according to their stats (probably further back, you tell me if you have time to search through all that data).

These numbers also put us at the slowest start for a tornado year since 2004, when there were only 5 tornadoes before March (we had 41 in January this year). 2004 also beat 2010 for slowest start for severe weather spotter reports overall, with 187 vs. 306 this year.

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