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However certain conditions aid their formation - conditions which exist in Tornado Alley:. Storm damage following a tornado watch? Contact us today. Skip to main content. Even with early-warning systems for severe weather preparedness available to meteorologists through the use of satellites, Doppler weather equipment, and other technology, tornadoes still pose a dangerous threat to populations in affected weather-system areas.

Professor Snodgrass recommends taking all precautions advised by your local or national weather service in the event of a tornado. Eric R. Snodgrass contributed to this article. An article in The New York Times claims that of them have been reported in a recent day stretch, which is an anomaly.

After the twister, people in and around Moore built storm shelters and 6, safe rooms , which are concrete bunkers built to withstand winds over miles per hour. FEMA offered Oklahomans loans to rebuild homes so they'd be strong enough to stand up to the next tornado.

It's too early to say whether the attempts to bolster the town's defenses paid off, though, as the search for survivors and bodies is still underway, and authorities haven't begun to assess the scope of the property damage.

Is any place in the U. Several studies actually suggest that the heart of Tornado Alley where Moore sits isn't even the deadliest area. A swath of the lower Mississippi Valley known as Dixie Alley has the most tornado-related deaths. That's due to a combination of factors. This area, too, is prone to violent thunderstorms. But in the Southeast, the storms are more likely to hit at night, so people in a twister's path often don't know danger is in the air.

And the region is full of large trees, which tornadoes can rip from the ground and hurl onto buildings and cars. The region also has many manufactured homes that can't hold up to high winds and have no basements where occupants can seek shelter.

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