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I was working for Patrick last week and thankfully we did NOT have any severe weather here but that wasn't the case in other parts of the country. It seemed like every time I showed the radar last week there were severe storms and tornadoes touching down somewhere.
We just started June and some of these numbers I'm about to show you are what we usually see at the end of a year...not 5 months into a year.
The preliminary count for tornadoes is 1,258. Now this number is likely a little high because some of the reports coming in may be duplicates, but it's a rough idea. But to give you some perspective last year we had 1,093 tornadoes, 1,106 in 2006 and in 2005 the U.S. had 1,264 touchdowns.
What's even scarier is the number of tornado deaths. So far in 2008, 111 people have died. That's the most since 1998 when 130 lost their lives.
One more statistic....February we had 148 tornadoes touch down setting a new record for the most in February. The previous record was 83 in 1971.
Click here to see some neat graphs and numbers.
So please if there is severe weather here be sure to take cover and take the warnings seriously. We don't want to add to these numbers.

Tara_Hastings Beyond the Forecast

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