Hatunen wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:24:30 +0100, "Keith W"
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Frank F. Matthews" wrote in message
> >news:J7g%e.329$Q53.265@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> >>
> >>
> >> richardfangnail@excite.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> National Geographic just ran (in the special issue on Katrina) had a
> >>> map showing exactly what we were talking about, but I can't find it at
> >>> ngm.com. It showed Tornado Alley as almost all just in Oklahoma.
> >>>
> >>
> >> They should discuss it with the old timers in Xenia Ohio. Or any of
> >> several other wide swaths carved from other states.
> >>
> >Indeed having seen 2 tornadoes close up and personal
> >in Ohio I had to give wry smile at that one.
>
> As have I. But that doesn't put Ohio in "Tornado Alley", an aea
> variously defined, but always as an area of very frequent
> tornadoes. I have seen "Tornado Alley" described as a wide path
> essentially along I-70 in Kansas, as well.
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Without doing the research, Tornado Alley is more about
size than frequency. Much of the midwest outside of "the"
alley has alot of tornados, but the ones that they have
out there are huge by comparison. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
etc all have tornados, but the size of them rarely if ever
compares to the size of them out in the larger plains states.
east of the Mississippi is the minor leagues and west
they go to "the big show".
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