#tornado touchdown

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Three tornadoes touched down in northeastern Wisconsin last week, leaving behind snapped trees, damaged buildings and plenty of questions. Here’s what the National Weather Service confirmed.

National Weather Service confirms 3 tornado touchdowns last week in Wisconsin

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America has more tornado touchdowns on average than anywhere else in the world, but those touchdowns are not at all evenly distributed. These maps, which break down the coordinates of each tornado, illustrate exactly where the danger falls the heaviest.

The U.S. Gets More Tornadoes Than Anywhere Else In The World. But Why?

Though tornadoes have touched down in almost every country in the world, the greatest number of… Read more

Tim Brice, a meteorologist with the NWS based out of El Paso, put together the series of graphs, which plot out every tornado occurring between 1950-2013 by its latitude and longitude...

— from The Location Of Every Tornado Touchdown In America, Graphed (io9)