Tornado numbers by state

[Jason Bolt]

I hate to post such an elementary question, but my little six year old storm chaser just read me his first book, about tornadoes of course! He is a little skeered and says he wants to move to North Dakota b/c according to his little book it is not in "Tornado Alley". I decided to google and find out how many tornadoes each state saw in 2008, 2007, etc. I can't seem to find numbers anywhere. I'm sure someone in here can point me to a link! Thanks!

 

[Lou Ruh]

I'm sure some might argue that North Dakota is in tornado alley. But, anyway, the information you are looking for is available back to 2000 at http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/newm.html ... not at the top of the page ... further down where it has a map for each year ... click each of the maps you're interested in and the page breaks the info down by month and by state (hover over the Tornadoes link above the map to see it graphically or scroll down and see the numbers).

 

[Adam Lucio]

There may be somewhere better and more accurate, but this might be a good place to start:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/2008_annual_summary.html

Edit: Lou beat me to it!

 

[Chris_Spannagle]

This site might help out as well, also from the SPC:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/rda/

 

[John Olexa]

Was just looking around & found this interesting.

http://www.disastercenter.com/tornado/rank.htm