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« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2011, 03:36:22 PM »

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

Oklahoma?
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« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2011, 03:36:48 PM »

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.
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« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2011, 03:38:10 PM »

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

Oklahoma?

We do have our fair share and we just had several strong tornadoes last Monday and one on Tuesday.  We've had them as late as December 2, before.
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« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2011, 03:41:57 PM »

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.
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« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2011, 03:56:01 PM »

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.

Come to think about it, I think I heard this somewhere before - is it Nebraska?
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« Reply #30 on: November 12, 2011, 04:09:45 PM »

PS: Your post was just one of your numerous attempts to make me look dumb. Congrats!...

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« Reply #31 on: November 12, 2011, 04:12:18 PM »

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.

Come to think about it, I think I heard this somewhere before - is it Nebraska?

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« Reply #32 on: November 12, 2011, 04:13:52 PM »

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.

Come to think about it, I think I heard this somewhere before - is it Nebraska?

41st

Arkansas?
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« Reply #33 on: November 12, 2011, 04:39:48 PM »

South Dakota?
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« Reply #34 on: November 12, 2011, 04:44:45 PM »

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.
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« Reply #35 on: November 12, 2011, 04:49:01 PM »

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida
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« Reply #36 on: November 12, 2011, 04:50:25 PM »

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida

You got it!  With an average of 9.59 tornadoes per yer per 10,000 square miles.
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« Reply #37 on: November 12, 2011, 04:53:58 PM »

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida

You got it!  With an average of 9.59 tornadoes per yer per 10,000 square miles.

That does make sense, with all the waterspouts that migrate onto land.
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« Reply #38 on: November 12, 2011, 06:14:57 PM »

Oregon > Oklahoma

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« Reply #39 on: November 12, 2011, 06:29:33 PM »

It pisses me off that I've lived all of my 38 years in various heavyish tornado areas and have never seen one or even been all that close to one.


Maybe "pisses me off" isn't the right phrase.
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« Reply #40 on: November 12, 2011, 06:49:22 PM »


I think you mean Oregon < Oklahoma
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« Reply #41 on: November 12, 2011, 06:51:52 PM »

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida

You got it!  With an average of 9.59 tornadoes per yer per 10,000 square miles.

That does make sense, with all the waterspouts that migrate onto land.

That's the one thing I'm not sure of - whether or not they count all tornadoes or only tornadoes with mesocyclonic origins.  I'm assuming they must count all tornadoes for Florida to be that high (although the hurricanes do add a boost), but it would be interesting to see statistics from only mesocyclonic tornadoes.
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« Reply #42 on: November 12, 2011, 07:55:07 PM »

I figured Oregon--has both coastline and rural mountain areas, and Groening grew up there.
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« Reply #43 on: November 12, 2011, 09:29:10 PM »

It pisses me off that I've lived all of my 38 years in various heavyish tornado areas and have never seen one or even been all that close to one.


Maybe "pisses me off" isn't the right phrase.

What's really hilarious is that supposedly Tulsa is somewhere in the seven to five tornadoes a year area and I've only seen like six in my entire life.  Two of those I saw while driving outside of Wichita, Kansas, three of those I've seen while living in the OKC area, and only one of those (which I saw a year and a half ago) was in Tulsa.
True, Tulsa gets two or three tornado warnings a year but 90% of the time that happens the super bad tornado that formed somewhere north and west of Oklahoma County merges with other storms and enters badass decay before eventually becoming just a ridiculous severe thunderstorm as it gets within 20 miles of Tulsa County.
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« Reply #44 on: November 12, 2011, 09:52:17 PM »

It pisses me off that I've lived all of my 38 years in various heavyish tornado areas and have never seen one or even been all that close to one.


Maybe "pisses me off" isn't the right phrase.

What's really hilarious is that supposedly Tulsa is somewhere in the seven to five tornadoes a year area and I've only seen like six in my entire life.  Two of those I saw while driving outside of Wichita, Kansas, three of those I've seen while living in the OKC area, and only one of those (which I saw a year and a half ago) was in Tulsa.
True, Tulsa gets two or three tornado warnings a year but 90% of the time that happens the super bad tornado that formed somewhere north and west of Oklahoma County merges with other storms and enters badass decay before eventually becoming just a ridiculous severe thunderstorm as it gets within 20 miles of Tulsa County.

Plus, you have to remember that any area that they do statistics for, the area includes 25 (I believe it's 25, maybe 50) miles around it.  So when they do the stats, it's a tornado within 25 miles of an area.  Otherwise, statistics for a specific area would mathematically approach zero as you get to a smaller and smaller resolution.
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« Reply #45 on: November 12, 2011, 09:58:40 PM »

Maine.
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« Reply #46 on: November 13, 2011, 05:03:47 AM »

Like that one time they went to the 5 corners.

Where is that? All I know of is the four corners (UT, CO, AZ, NM). Is there an actual five corners?

As you've clearly never looked at a map of the U.S., what brings you to Dave Leip's Election Atlas?  It is rather map-oriented, you know.
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« Reply #47 on: November 13, 2011, 06:16:47 AM »

Indeed.

But if it does exist, it's in the Pacific Northwest.
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« Reply #48 on: November 16, 2011, 07:51:46 PM »

My impression has always been that it was Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri or maaaaybe Ohio, Iowa, Michigan or Wisconsin.

States that can be excluded entirely:

Not enough snow:

Hawaii
California
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina

Too much snow:

Alaska

Too small:

Delaware
Rhode Island

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« Reply #49 on: November 16, 2011, 09:21:17 PM »

When I think of Reno, "not enough snow" isn't what comes to mind.
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