Severe Weather Awareness Week 2021: Tornadoes : The Alabama Weather Blog
Scott Martin | February 24, 2021 @ 10:30 am Living in Central Alabama, you really need no introduction to tornadoes. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air usually descending from thunderstorms that makes contact with the ground. Wind speeds with a tornado can be as weak as 65 MPH but can reach upwards of 200 MPH and beyond. The fastest wind speed ever recorded in a tornado was 318 MPH, one that hit Moore Oklahoma back in 1999. Even though tornadoes can develop during any time of the year in Central Alabama, we have two peak seasons: the spring months of March through May, and t...
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