Time Series of Annual Cycle of
Tornado Days at 16 Selected Sites
National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL Graphs
Created by Dr. Harold Brooks,
Head, Mesoscale Applications Group, NSSL

Annual cycles of probability of tornadoes at these locations.
There are four lines on each graph--cycle based on
1980-84, 1985-89, 1990-94, and 1980-94.
The definition of the event is one or more tornadoes during a
24-hour period within 25 miles of the location.

 York, NE
Burlington, CO
Great Bend, KS
 Spring Hill, KS (Kansas City)
 St. Louis, MO
Cedar Rapids, IA
Norman, OK
Bentonville, AR
Little Rock, AR
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
Wichita Falls, TX
Lubbock, TX
Fresno, CA
Houston, TX
S.W. Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
LINK: Harold Brooks, Severe Thunderstorm Climatology

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