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December is typically the quietest month for tornadoes, but at least 20 deaths so far this month make it the second-deadliest December on record, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
An average December has only three tornado-related deaths, based on data since the early 1950s, said Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist for the prediction center. Until last week's ferocious storms just before Christmas, only 10 people had died in tornadoes this year, putting 2015 on track to be the least deadly year from tornadoes.
Instead, this is the first time that December will be the deadliest month of the year, Carbin added.
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The large MS tornado was confirmed to have been a single long track tornado with a 145 mile path! EF3+ damage. So of the 16 super long track tornadoes since 1950 5 have been at least partially in MS!
I'm guessing it will be a near average year. I think most tornado activity during the winter and early spring will be in the Southeastern U.S., and the Midwest becoming more active later.
There have already been 29 tornado reports on January 3-4 across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
Well, 2015 was a flop if ever I saw one. Nothing more than a few very weak, short lived tornadoes (way below normal number) and nothing went much more than 150 feet before disappearing. In the 1950's most of those events they now call "tornadoes" were merely called "windstorms."
Gosh I hope 2016 is better. Tornado seasons often at least start out, the way they ended the year before. So...hopefully it'll start out early and good. February 10th 1959 scenario would be appropriate; however, after an ElNino winter, activity tends to concentrate on the Carolinas, rather than the I-70 corridor.
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