Thursday, January 3, 2013

2012 Severe Weather Warnings in Review...

The National Weather Service issued 2,386 Tornado Warnings (red) and 20,011 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings (blue) in 2012, for a total of 22,397 individual warnings.

Greg Carbin of the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) put together the following 30 second YouTube video which shows the issuance of those warnings throughout the entire year:


Stay tuned for a detailed post regarding the final tornado and severe thunderstorm facts and figures for 2012 coming up soon (some of the data is still being tabulated/quality controlled).

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