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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I think it may help to put something into context. There are 30 tornados a year in TN alone on average. That would suggest between 1933 and 2020, there have been approx 2,610 tornadoes in the state, 3 of which had this route. So nashville maybe is more likely to have tornados (middle tn is) but it is hardly some ideal route.
In addition to that, only certain very specific weather patterns will create tornadoes, there are a lot of factors that go into it, and so for the Nashville area, there may only end up being a single set of circumstances (wind direction, pressure, speed, etc) that can plausibly cause tornadoes, and so when those conditions happen, the tornadoes are likely to be in the same area.
I will let some actually meteorologists tell me im wrong though.
https://www.weather.gov/ohx/middletntornadoes
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