Storm Stats: Over 100 Tornado Reports
In the past two days, there have been 111 Tornado Reports issued to the government's database (see yesterday's on the StormMatrix). They were mostly concentrated in the same areas of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska Thursday and Friday (map below of the report locations). Here is a link to the latest Associated Press article about the storms. Henry points out that some of the tornadoes were near Greensburg, Kansas, which of course was devastated by a tornado last year (see CATEGORIES at right for my Greensburg Blogs).
Taking all three days of this outbreak into account, here are the stats:
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This outbreak beats the two-day May 3rd outbreak and the much-hyped the 4-day April 11th outbreak, and the 1-day "January Outbreak", but falls short of the famous 1-day "Super-Outbreak" on Feb. 5th of this year.
Why didn't this outbreak receive more media attention before or after it happened? There are several reasons (submit yours by clicking on "Comments" below). First, it was forecast (by the SPC) to be a very small area of a Moderate Risk with no High Risk initially, and a tiny, late-in-the-day issued High Risk that only lasted a few hours. Second, it happened in an mostly-unpopulated area [population map], an by that I mean no offense to those towns that weren't hit, but it had little chance of affecting a major city, and the truth is that the mainstream media pretty much ignored it for that reason. It nearly affected Denver, but not quite, and the initial SPC forecasts didn't really scream "Denver"... and the area from Denver to Cheyenne was never in the Moderate Risk to my knowledge.
*Warning numbers are composited from daily numbers. Due to Z-time, numbers could be polluted by previous day. Storm Report numbers are correct because they are 12Z-12Z.
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