I live in Nashville, and we just had a very devastating EF-3 Tornado over night that caused massive damage and lose of life, especially in the East Nashville, or Five Points area.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/weather/2020/03/03/nashville-tornado-path-map-shows-familiar-east-west-direction/4937370002/
This article came up where 2 previous tornado’s (1933 and 1998) had pathed into the same focal point, and I was wondering what about this area makes it perfect for tornado pathing?
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Nothing. Tornadoes don’t follow paths, they go their own way based on the random forces of nature. The fact that this same area was hit three times in nearly 90 years is completely random, and well within the probabilities of tornadoes in March in middle Tennessee.
It might interest you to know that tornadoes DO follow seasonal tendencies. March tornadoes tend to be in the south, Mississipi / Alabama / Georgia / Tennessee. By April and May they are prevalent in Texas / Oklahoma / Kansas / Illinois / Indiana; late May in Nebraska / Colorado / Iowa, and in June in South Dakota / Minnesota / Wisconsin. This is due to the fact that the “dry line” – the meteorological meeting of dry western air colliding with moist air from the Gulf of Mexico – gradually moves north throughout the spring.
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