Some recent studies suggest the frequency of tornadoes is increasing in the Midwest and Southeast.
year for tornadoes in Mississippi was in 1971, when 41 tornadoes left at least 128 people dead and 1,494 injured.of 1971 found that there were four major tornadoes.
The study identified increasing trends of tornadoes and tornado environments in Dixie Alley, which includes much of the lower Mississippi Valley region, as well as parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky. Mississippi does not fall in the famed “tornado alley” — a stretch of land from Texas and Oklahoma through Kansas and Nebraska that conjures images of storm chasers pursuing violent twisters., your greatest risk of being hit by a tornado is not actually in tornado alley, it is in the Deep South — particularly Mississippi and Alabama.
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