Tornado Magnets?

[Glen Heinz]

This one I do question though According to NCDC, the entire county (Orange) has seen 63 tornados in the last 67 years, for an average of less than one per year for the whole county. How did that city get three times as many as the county?

I'm starting to question that whole website. The tornadohistoryproject.com has a different number then that website. I trust tornadohistoryproject.com more...

 

[rdale]

I'm starting to question that whole website. The tornadohistoryproject.com has a different number then that website. I trust tornadohistoryproject.com more...

Tornadohistoryproject has one less actually (Probably due to the cutoff date as their data isn't updated.) So I'm not sure where you got that number from? Any city getting 3 tornadoes a year would not be one we haven't heard of.

 

[Glen Heinz]

Tornadohistoryproject has one less actually (Probably due to the cutoff date as their data isn't updated.) So I'm not sure where you got that number from? Any city getting 3 tornadoes a year would not be one we haven't heard of.

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What are you refering to ?
I see 177(homefacts) vs 62(tornadohistoryproject.com)???

LINKS!
http://www.homefacts.com/tornadoes/Florida/Orange-County/Wedgefield.html Homefacts
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http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/Florida/Orange/map THP
What I was talking about. I was refering back to my original post. I thought your were talking about this. But I reread it again. I see you state NCDC. SOrry didn't see this first time...

 

[rdale]

Homefacts is not a weather site Ignore that data. There is no Florida city that averages 3 tornadoes a year. There isn't one that even averages one tornado a year.

 

[Brian G]

I'd want to know how those 15 "different tornadoes" were counted. Who knows....the person counting them might have been an inexperienced citizen "spotter" who simply counted several different suction vortices from a multi-vortex tornado.

It was the Birmingham NWS office that surveyed them. Each one of the 15 got assigned an official EF rating. Refer to their event summary page here.