Severe winds and tornadoes

Overview

A tornado is a narrow, violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.

Data:

NOAA storm events database https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ ; also see winter storms

Severe weather data inventory:

monthly tornado report

tornado count

wind speed averages: https://disgeoportal.egs.anl.gov/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a69fcf899d91410799233f104b025552; https://climrr.anl.gov/mapexplorer;

NOAA tornadoes: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/tornadoes/