Tornadoes are one of nature’s most potent forces, and they can cause widespread damage to buildings like automobiles and homes.
The Fujita Scale, used by the National Weather Service to classify tornadoes, measures a tornado’s strength, wind speed, and property damage.
The southern Plains, including Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, as well as the Gulf coast, the northern Plains, and the upper Midwest (North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota) are where tornadoes of all types most frequently occur.
You would be surprised at how frequently tornadoes occur. 132 tornadoes were reported by the National Center for Environmental Information in August 2021, 146 in October 2021, and 202 in December 2021. 87 people were killed by tornadoes in December 2021.
