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From 2023, devastation in less than 60 seconds.
Is this what everyone wants? Sincerely. Americans can't possibly want this.
Man Watches a Tornado Destroy His Neighborhood From His Porch
El Salvador best not use OUR PROTECTED POPULATION as trading objects with Venezuela.
May 1, 2025
By Jay Weaver
April 27, 2025 -This is not normal.
May 1, 2025
Dramatic video shows how severe storms spawned a huge tornado in northwest Nebraska on Sunday. The twister derailed a train near Ashby, knocking over as many as 130 railcars.
Now, go from 3 deaths from thunderstorms and the current dynamics of an EF-1 is starting to come into view.
April 29, 2025By Anthony Bettin, Jonah Kaplan, and Lisa Meadows
Both Minnesota and Wisconsin (click here) were hit by tornadoes during Monday night's severe storms, the National Weather Service confirmed.
The first hit Kenyon, Minnesota, in Rice County around 5:55 p.m., according to a storm report. The NWS said debris was blown about a mile away and the tornado has a preliminary damage rating of at least EF-1
A WCCO crew saw major damage to farm structures and houses in Kenyon, which is about 60 miles south of Minneapolis....
May 1, 2025
The National Weather Service (click here) in Tulsa has confirmed an EF1 tornado in Gravette from storms that moved through Northwest Arkansas on Tuesday.
NWS said the tornado occurred around 8:25 a.m.
Damage from the tornado included uprooted and snapped trees and damage to homes....
According to the National Weather Service, there was a confirmed brief, weak EF-0 tornado about 9:30 a.m. April 29 in Christian County. It began near Eaglecrest Street in Nixa and damaged an auto repair shop, where part of the roof was removed and a wall collapsed.
The tornado path was intermittent to the northeast, crossing Highway 160 before lifting near a storage shed business....
And let's not forget the flood waters.At least two people are dead in Oklahoma (click here) after being caught in floodwaters as thunderstorms brought destructive winds and heavy rains across parts of that state and Texas, authorities said.
The threat of thunderstorms, flash flooding, and a chance of tornadoes hovered over the south-central part of the country, with some of the greatest risk in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and north Texas, forecasters said. North Texas, southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas, and northwest Louisiana were all at an enhanced risk for tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds on April 30, according to the Storm Prediction Center....
The solid blue line is 2024. The red line is 2025 and it looks like the same trend with a slight increase. The least number of tornadoes is 2013 with only 943 for the entire year. We are nearly there on April 30, 2025 with a total so far of 689.
There are 16 years recorded here not including 2025. Of six years the highest number are only six. 2011 had the highest followed by 2024, 2019, 2010, 2017, and 2023. 2011 was a pivot point to the increase of tornadoes in the USA, it also holds the current record for deaths at 553 Americans.
The dark line in the middle is the average of all those years. So, the six years I mentioned are all above average years. Except for 2011 there was a distinct increase 2016.
Sometimes there is something called a rolling average in scientific statistics. This is from Wikipedia (click here). The trend of increased number of tornadoes began in 1990 when the numbers crossed 1000 with reliable frequency.
The year on the Wiki chart most interesting to me is 2005. There was a significantly lower number of tornadoes from 2004. 2005 saw three major Category 5 hurricanes with Katrina carrying the most deaths at 1,392. See, these storms, including tornadoes, is sort of like a heat budget. They all distribute Earth's heat to maintain a habitable troposphere.
...Of the 7 major hurricanes (in 2005), (click here) an unprecendented 3 reached category 5 status, with a 4th reaching the greatest possible windspeed within category 4 of the Saffir-Simpson scale....How do these values compare to the average? Are we seeing more tornadoes than we used to or is this just par for the course at this time of the year? If it seems like 2025 has experienced more tornadoes through the first third of the year than normal, the data backs this up. From Jan. 1 through April 30, 2025, the Storm Prediction Center has received 689 tornado reports...
Tornado reports for the year through April 30
This is still happening.
Three Americans died in this storm. Thunderstorm. Not a tornado, this was a thunderstorm.
April 29, 2025by Renee Straker
Severe Storms That Slammed Central US Leave At Least 3 Dead In Pennsylvania (click here)
Severe storms that stretched from Texas to New York on Tuesday have left at least three people dead in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh Public Safety announced that a man was electrocuted by live wires in the South Side Slopes area of the city, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. In a news conference on Wednesday, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey extended condolences to the victim's family and held a moment of silence.
In State College, police said a 22-year-old man was electrocuted while trying to put out a mulch fire started by downed power lines. Just outside Pittsburgh in Ross Township, a 67-year-old man was killed by a fallen tree, the Associated Press reported.
The storms caused widespread damage across the Pittsburgh area, with the city’s 911 system experiencing a temporary outage. Allegheny County reported more than 5,000 calls per hour to its regional 911 centers as the storms brought down trees and power lines. The Pittsburgh Public Safety Department said the 911 system was fully restored by early Wednesday....
The storm that hit PA today was wild lol. Got hit with a microburst (click here) that instantly wiped 100% of power in my township. Trees and houses fallen and on fire everywhere. Power company said nothing till Sunday
The USA economy is in a major stage of contracture.
his is not temporary or insignificant. Foreign companies are making decisions based in a dynamic never before witnessed in the USA.
Lock, Stock, and Barrel. Gone.
CPO sales totaled 5,931 vehicles in December, an increase of 17 percent compared to December 2023....
May 1, 2025
By Drew Friedman
House Republicans (click here) have advanced a series of proposals attempting to cut costs by reducing the value of federal retirement annuities, increasing contributions into the government’s retirement system, and requiring federal employees to decide between taking a reduced paycheck or keeping their civil service protections....