I’ve never heard of a tornado in a different country recently. It’s possible but US is spawn point.
by Medical_Deal5272
I’ve never heard of a tornado in a different country recently. It’s possible but US is spawn point.
by Medical_Deal5272
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It reminds me that in alien movies they ALWAYS land in the US
Tornadoes are very common in Germany
When was the last time you heard about standard weather phenomena in <insert any country> that wasn’t here?
Golf ball sized hail in Mexico? Forrest fires in Europe? blizzards in South Africa?
You barely hear about the weather the next state over.
Tornadoes are common in China. We just don’t hear about them because (checks notes) China isn’t local.
I don’t know the number (but it’s a bunch less) but I believe Canada is #2 in the world for tornados on average
Also the world according to superheroes
It would basically be the midwest portion though lol
The US is unfortunately perfectly built for tornadoes.
You got cold, dry air coming from the Rockies and warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. Tornado alley is situated right in the sweet spot between the two. Tornadoes do happen in other countries but the US just has the perfect geographical conditions for them.
The U.S. helps keep them contained by shooting them before they can escape.
Tornadoes are quite common in Argentina. There’s been a death due to one just last month. “El pasillo de los tornados” (Tornado Hallway) between Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil and Uruguay is the second most tornado prone region in the world behind the US.
As a non american, when I was little I viewed tornadoes kinda the same way as fantasy creatures like dragons and unicorns. Something legendary I would never be able to see
Don’t forget Canada, they had an F5 in 2007.
We do get them more than any other country but the deadliest one ever was in Bangladesh which surprised me.
I don’t think I have ever seen an actual tornado outside the US.
Tornado alley = Bible belt
There are other smaller tornado alleys around the Benelux area and somewhere eastern India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar
Meteorologist here.
There is a reason for it. The US has a unique setup where there is a large, flat land mass between the right latitudes and geographical access to moisture, along with contrasting air mass sources. That creates a breeding ground for the type of storm cells that produce the rotation necessary for tornadoes.
They can happen anywhere that gets storms in theory. But the probability is significantly higher due to the geography of the US.
Every once in a while they will get outbreaks in Europe and South Asia. But it is much more rare.
I vaguely remember a conspiracy theory that when semis pass each other on the highway it creates spindrifts that turn into tornadoes.
The rest of the world : They can happen.
The US: They will happen.
Australia gets some. Leave it to the land of the deadly animals to also have deadly storms.
The us sees more tornados per year than the rest of the world combined
Ofc they keep coming back if yall keep feeding them those wooden skeletons you call homes.
We have north-south mountains in the US allowing cold and warm air to mix. Europe has generally East-west mountainsÂ
We had 3 legit tornadoes touch down in Central California this week. Lived here 44 years, never heard of such a thing, then boom.
Every continent gets or has gotten tornados except Antarctica. Supposedly fairly common in New Zealand and Argentina, probably more.
I think about 80% of the worlds tonados are in the USA but the strongest outside of the USA is an F4 in Europe
I always just thought they were called different things in other places
This is also the world to half of this country too unfortunately.
The UK gets on average 50 tornados a year. They are mostly smaller than US ones and we made our houses out of stones because we learned from the big bad wolf.