#alltorn

... ist at NSSL, has provided some information that allows us to begin to tackle this issue. http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~brooks/tornado/#alltorn/ (See also the work of Charles Doswell also a NSSL scientist: Tornadoes: Some Hard Realities [http://www.wildstar.net/~doswell/Tornado_essay.html] Budget-Cutting and the Value of Weather Services [http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~doswell/NWS_value/value2.html]) Brooks shows that the nation has gone from an average annual loss of life to tornadoes of more than 300/year in the 1920s to less than 100 per year in the 1990s. The data is even more striking when co ...