Originally Posted by SallyRand

Yeah, wish I could! I don't think it's really any Global Warming thing, as such. Tornadoes are rare but not unheard of in your area and there is such a thing as a "tornado storm", in which tornadoes occur more or less randomly across North America. We've only been really studying tornadoes for less than fifty years, so we don't have a good handle on them yet.

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