Tornado count creeps higher with another confirmed tornado
We dodged a severe weather bullet Tuesday night into Wednesday of this week. But, that wasn’t the case in the hard-hit St. Louis area. Another tornado was confirmed out of severe weather that struck late Wednesday morning north of St. Louis.
An EF-1 touched down near Clarksville, MO. The tornado had max winds of 104 mph and was on the ground for about 3.6 miles before lifting on the other side of the Mississippi River.
This brings this year’s record-setting tornado count to 116.
The national numbers are also impressive, with a preliminary count of 1190 tornadoes. This makes it one of the most active spring severe weather seasons of the past decade.
The pattern across the nation is definitely shifting into summer mode, and with that, a shift in where tornadoes tend to occur. That shift north follows the jet stream as it shifts north, as the nation settles into a hotter summer pattern.
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