Okay, okay, so if trailers don attract tornadoes, why do so many trailer parks get hit by tornadoes?
There are probably hundreds (maybe more than a thousand) very small tornadoes that touch down in the USA every year, but are not recorded because they do no damage. However, since a mobile home flips over so easily in even the weakest tornado, trailers probably act as “mini tornado” detectors. This makes it seem like tornadoes are attracted to mobile homes, but that is because trailers are the only things that reveal the presence of what would otherwise be an unrecorded event. • How strong a wind does it really take to blow over a mobile home? Lightweight mobile homes can be flipped by a 60 mile per hour wind. Heavier mobile homes may not go until 70 or 80 miles per hour. And a tied down trailer might stay put at 110 miles per hour. • Where is Tornado Alley? There are several areas that can be considered “Tornado Alley”. The area from central Texas to Colorado, North Dakota and Minnesota commonly gets this poorly defined label. But there is also a tornado-prone area that extends eastwa
