(AccuWeather) Has tornado alley shifted east?
The term Tornado Alley was first coined in 1952 when two meteorologists — Major Ernest J. Fawbush and Captain Robert C. Miller — studied severe weather in parts of Texas and Oklahoma. And since then, the term has stuck around as a way to describe the area that encompasses parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, where tornadoes were seemingly most frequent.
But with powerful tornadoes decimating areas in the Midwest and southeastern United States, there now may be a reason to believe that Tornado Alley has shifted east. “When you look at the trends in where tornadoes have occurred in recent years, it’s very clear that there have been more tornadoes farther south and farther east away from what people have typically known as the Tornado Alley across the Plains,” AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter explained.
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