Why Tornado Alley Is Moving East
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- The United States gets more tornados than anywhere else on Earth, but most of those tornados happen in just one area known as Tornado Alley. Today's video looks at how Tornado Alley is growing.
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Environment is shifting not tornado alley itself
Tornado alley shifting? Tell the Rockies and the Gulf of Mexico to relocate if you want tornado alley to me moving😅. In case if you don’t know, that region is called Dixie Alley and has always been a tornado prone.
It never shifted it has always been this way. The old "tornado alley" was based on an assumption since there wasn't a lot of data to back it up. There are far more people living in the area east of what was considered "tornado alley" plus the creation of dopler radar and tornado chasing all contributed to more tornado reports.
Dixie and Hoosier Alleys have always existed, traditional Tornado Alley hasn't moved.
Thank you. Someone else knows their facts
Yes but in recent years Tornado alley has had less activity and dixie alley has had a dramatic increase although tornado alley isn't shifting east the tornadoes are.
YEA
@@Carbonf1ber001 skewed by 2 outbreaks in the east
Yeah this video is putting out a lot of false information.
Has anyone paid attention to what has happened in 2024? The traditional tornado alley is alive, and very well.
People should go look up the 1974 super outbreak. The southern US has ALWAYS been a tornado hotspot
Yes but compared to many recent decades there's been a noticeable decrease in tornado alley and a dramatic increase in the south
@@Carbonf1ber001 wrong
@@Carbonf1ber001that was due to a long lasting La NIna that lasted for three years from 2020 to 2023. Tornado alley in 2019 was on another level
@@AdamSmith-gs2dvDo you notice that every super outbreak (1884, 1932, 2011, 1974) happened outside of Tornado Alley except of 2019?
Its not. Dixie Alley has always been a tornado hotspot. I mean this is where the 1974 and 2011 super outbreaks happened after all
Exactly
And Hoosier Alley is where the 1965 Palm Sunday Outbreak happened.
The main point about this is that tornado alley has been getting less activity in the past few decades or so, and dixie is getting more.
@@Carbonf1ber001 not
Uh, your own video shows that Dixie Alley has long been a thing. The big thing though is that the South got much more populous in that region more recently, and it's long had worse visibility. While Tornado Alley isn't that populated, it's much easier to see tornados across the plains than through the forested hills.
This year, 2024, we've seen the more traditional Tornado Alley be much more active than other parts of the country. Moreover, the South has always been active for tornadoes going back to well before the US Civil War, such as the Great Natchez Tornado of 1840, which was second deadliest tornado in American history in Mississippi.
Bro really posted this after 3 EF4's and an active season in tornado alley this year
Not because of this year alone, when comparing to the recent decades you'll notice a downfall in tornadoes in the traditional tornado alley and more noticeably in the southeast
what an interesting topic you covered. i thought tornado alley stretched a wider part of the country, but it is fascinating (probably scary too) to see other parts getting more tornado activity.
I’m sorry, but this area of the US has always been tornado prone. It’s called Dixie alley and it stretches from Arkansas to North Georgia.
Why no mention of Arkansas? We're dead center in this new tornado alley...also could've included that it used to be called Dixie Alley, since we're so non-weather alert I figured you would at least know that part
It didn't used to be, thats what it is called. But the media is running with this narritive like it is something new, when its not. I bet most of these people never heard of the 1974 super outbreak. It didnt happen in tornado alley.
@@slayer18726 Dixie Alley is too offensive I guess lol...man who cares
@@rtre870 thats probably it 🤣
Arkansas is all hills not really a place tornadoes like to form
@@JacK-cs7kt guess you never heard of the Tri state tornado
After watching lots of newer videos that trace the exact birds eye view on an overhead view of the actual map. It seems like a lot of tornados these days and its completly random.
The Tornado activity has become much higher in Dixie Alley in the last decade. Dixie Alley has always existed. This doesn't mean Tornado Alley is shifting.The bottom half of your "moved" area comprises about 2/3 of Dixie Alley.
Arkansas is abbreviated: AR not: AK which is Alaska
Dixie Alley has been around almost as long as the original tornado alley! This isn’t ground breaking news, it’s just what it is! This is a tit for tat video! What you’re actually seeing is normal. Click bait video that I unfortunately, “clicked”.
Being an Indy native.. I can report the strongest we have got is a ef2.. and even still. It wasn’t long tracked. The metro gets it worse
Iowa has always been part of tornado alley and this year alone, Iowa has ranked near the top of number and ferocity of tornadoes recorded so far. One of those rare ‘PDS’ TORNADO watches was issued to Iowa alone on May 21st. A simple online search will clearly show that Iowa was and still is well within tornado alley as well as other midwestern states including Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska which seem to have been excluded from this video.
I live one state away from the “new” tornado alley I’m cooked
I don't see severe weather events becoming less frequent
Iknow New England's tornado seson is June -November, I DID see in May of this year 4 funnel clouds. i was emptying some recycling, and saw something. Thinking I was dreaming, I saw 4 funnels, one after another. Nothing touched dow as it was just forming, even if it had what I saw was probably going to be minor, since these storms didn't look powerful enough to do much.
Great synopses *that* tornado alley is moving east, but how did the I miss that promised analyses as to *why?*
That's strange so does this mean around about 2050 the uk will get stronger tornados if it keeps shifting east or would it be over by then
I think we in the western part of ohio need tornado alley.
Definitely could include a few other states, Ohio being one of them.
BuckEye Alley
It’s considered part of Hoosier Alley.
@@sbclaridge never heard of it
It's on the line where warm humid gulf air meets western dryer air.
The Panhandle used to be active up to the mid-2000s, but we barely see anything here now. For better or worse. Most places here are just drug factories, so maybe for worse.
The panhandle gets so much lol, just because they aren’t in residential areas (thank goodness) doesn’t mean there’s none, just the other week, two tornados went straight through Tallahassee and caused significant damage, just the other day a tornado touched down in Panama on the beach.
@@jonnyveltri610 I should've specified the Texas Panhandle. Nothing happens here. I stand my case that large portions of Amarillo specifically could use being demolished. Unlikely though.
@@jonnyveltri610 they meant the texas panhandle :-
@@connerstines1578 oops my bad! I forgot they have a panhandle too!
Now I move west.
Ohio has many tornados this year could mean ohio new tornado alley
Not exactly
Yes and Iowa
They forgot to tell the tornadoes that hit Texas just last week
You didn't say why Tornado Alley is moving east. So why is it?
Tornado alley isn't LITERALLY moving east but there's been more tornadoes in the Southeastern U.S and a noticeable decline in lots of tornado alley
climate change
Don't listen to the propaganda they trying to confuse us it did move east might move north 💀
Why would the tornado alley be shifted from 1989 to today? Are you completely forgetting about the 1974 super outbreak? Also, Nebraska has had many tornadoes this year, maybe more than the dixie alley states.
The Rocky Mountains didn't move, so it seems there may be something wrong with the explanation for how tornados form.
It's not the Rockies that create Dixie Alley. It's cold air from Canada meeting warm air from the Gulf of Mexico which creates the same phenomenon that happens with the Rockies and the Gulf of Mexico in Tornado Alley
There’s a reason why it’s tornado alley, gotta practice their manipulated weatha and plant seeding.
That has never been proven, but climate change HAS been proven 💀 get educated on this
Oh yeah, Dixie Alley is getting worse for sure!
I moved out of the southwestern Illinois area to the desert southwest because of how bad the weather has been getting, I suffered chronic migraines because of it. Best decision for my health I’ve ever made.
@@user-zx9ou4jw7f speaking of getting bad the heat might be historic this year 👀
No, dixie alley tornadoes are just better recorded now. When it was believed that they only mostly occurred in tornado alley, that's where all the research went. Combined with the issues of visibility/terrain, night twisters, and often rain-wrapped ones in dixie alley..they were even harder to study. This has been somewhat a myth pushed for a very long time.
@@kaygee2121 these tornadoes have been documented well for a long time, I think you are either biased in some way or you haven't done your research.
@@Carbonf1ber001 The lack of documentation for Dixie alley for example, COMPARED to the historic tornado alley though, has to skew the research. How is that accounted for? I'm not denying that there's a trend toward a "shift" within the research, but it HAS to be skewed. Plus, I don't think there's been enough years of data to truly determine a shift yet when considering those factors. 🤷🏻♀️
The wind of the Holy Spirit
It’s still too early to make any conclusions. It hasn’t been long enough and this could just be a passing trend. A few major outbreaks doesn’t mean tornado alley is moving. Besides, the traditional tornado alley was hit very hard this year. Weather processes work on geological timescales. Not decades.
people other than Texas and Oklahoma are very weather aware , your statement of people living out side the original tornado ally not being tornado aware is totally wrong. Even up here in Michigan we get our share of tornados i.e. Flint Beacher tornado still stands in the top 5 deadliest tornados. you need to do more research! the south has had tornados just as long as the ally. They know destruction just as well. So yes your statement is totally off.
Im in philly and trust me we are safe
The old hersey highway
I dont think its moving. The weather has always done what the weather does. We have just got better at observing them with our technology being more advanced now. Plus growing population centers make it seem like they are appearing where they havent before. Plus youre just showing Dixe Alley and claiming its tornado alley moving when anyone who has actually paid attention to the weather before the climate narritive being pushed, knows thats not true. The 1974 super outbreak didnt happen in tornado alley.
It really isnt moving. This year has shown that well enough. Nebraska, Iowa doen to texas has been the epicenter of this crazy year
It's not moving. It has just always been here toward the east as well. They just are not as easily visible, or chased here because of the terrain and other factors. So research and records happened more in the midwest. So everyone falsely believed that they only happened in the midwest. It's simply a falsehood. Now that we keep better records for dixie alley, it'll skew the research. Ask anyone in the southeast if they think it's "moving" 🤣
I was hopeful that climate change would shift tornado alley northwards.
its not moving its just expanding
Your claim about less tornado awareness in Tennessee is very wrong. I lived in a suburb of Nashville, and everyone was very aware of tornados. We all had NOAA radios and emergency preparations.
I think tornadoes are gonna be a huge problem come the warmer climates from global warming fueling these storms
Especially Western North Carolina probably whare I live
You can't have tornadoes from just warm air. It is the collision of cold and warm air that causes tornadoes! But since you mentioned "climate change" I'm sure you did not know that 😂😂😂
Good lord, this is so misleading. Let’s make declarations about tornados after we’ve studied them seriously for more longer than a few decades. We don’t know what tornados have been like 100+ years ago because the areas weren’t populated. You need actual data to accurately determine tornado patterns.
I'm using information provided by major publications and experts here
He has sources and publications that are trusted. He used them in this video I think you need to get educated
It's trying to get farther away from Commiefornia.
It’s the earth trying to cure itself of colonizers and slave traders
misleading title
Its cause Indiana serves hot beer. Get some more beer on ice and the alley will move back west and people might actually like Indiana.... AND get rid of that stupid highway where you have to pay to get off every exit! SHEESH!
Lmao I'm not worried about it. You people in the middle of nowhere can keep them.
Thats BS! I live in central TX and we had about 50 confirmed tornadoes in april and may of 2024!
Parts of TX, OK, and KS are still in the Alley, it's growing as much as shifting
Tornado alley has always been East as well
Tornadoes happen in all 50 states, all times of the year. There is no such thing as "tornado alley."
Are you sure they rarely happen in states like Alaska and Hawaii they rarely get tornadoes
@@Carbonf1ber001 While it's true that some regions may experience tornado-producing ingredients in the atmosphere more regularly, all 50 states are vulnerable to tornadoes and have experienced them in the past.
Where ever people sin tornado 🌪️ goes there
Oklahoma City used to be the heart of tornado alley, now Birmingham Alabama is the heart of tornado alley
That being said downtown OKC has never been hit by one, but places like Chicago get so much closer calls with tornados hitting downtown than okc