Is Kirksville Missouri in Tornado Alley?
Tornadoes are capable of producing some of the most violent winds possible on planet earth. The most frequent area of the US for these twisting terrors from the sky has become known as tornado alley. From historical data taken over many years, one large area has been drawn over US maps to make a visual representation of this data. Here is one such map taken from: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tornado/tor_climatology.html Unfortunately, some people have concluded from tornado alley maps that if they live outside of that area known as tornado alley, that they have little chance of being hit by one of these killer storms. Missouri is not on most of these tornado alley maps, but as a storm chaser, I have included part of Missouri in tornado alley. Tornado alley maps have been created with specific data sets in mind that the map creators want to represent. These data sets have certain limiting factors built into them that limited what data would be allowed to affect the area drawn on the
