Tornado Alley moves to the south -est, storm shelters become more popular
More tornado In the south –st has put more population centers in the Bullseye of what some researchers call a new Tornado alley.
A study published on the American Meteorological Society website has found that returning back to the great plains has decreased by 25% in the last 35 years compared to previous 35 years. In the same period of time, the return activity increased by 12% in the south -est.
Parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky were among the states that experienced the most Tornado, according to the study.
A report published on the American Meteorological Society website has found that the return activity in the great plains has decreased by 25% in the last 35 years compared to the previous 35 years. In the same period of time, the return activity increased by 12% in the south -est. (Fox News)
Mark Brasfield, owner of Nashville Safe House, said he sold thousands of storm shelters in his 33 years of sale. He said he had never seen an intense question in the south –st until recently. Brasfield has estimated that his phone rings at least 20 times a day with people trying to buy refuges for storms.
“It’s like insurance. You don’t think you’ll ever use it, but if you need it, you understood it,” Brasfield said.
Brasfield said that his shelters comply with the standards established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A quarter of the steel thumb, reinforced walls and a dozen six-inch bolts help to ensure that Brasfield shelters resist twenty of 200 mph of an EF-5 tornado.
A dozen six -inch bolts, a quarter -inch steel and reinforced walls help to allow some storm shelters to resist twenty of 200 mph. (Fox News)
“Get someone who moves here from a state that has never had a tornadoes. They are afraid to death,” Brasfield said.
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Lawrence Behrs moved from California to Tennessee 10 years ago. He said he and his wife exchanged earthquakes and fires for Tornado.
“We looked at the maps and said: ‘Okay, well, where could we move? Where would we be completely safe?’ And I don’t think it exists anywhere, “said Behrs.
In December, Berhs finally decided to buy one of the Brasfield family -sized storms. He said he was installed in January, just in time for what he described as a tornado season already active in his area.
“With the increase in Tornado’s occurrence and apparently on the move, you know, east of Tornado Alley, we decided that it would be a good investment for tranquility,” said Berhs.
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The National Meteorological Service In Nashville He has already issued 14 Tornado notices this year in their jurisdiction.
When his meteorological radio tells him that he and his wife are under a tornado warning, Berhs said they climb the stormy refuge with a “bag to be shot”. The refuge is attached on his garage floor, after his house.
“Paradise prohibits that there is a really serious tornado, but I had visions of, you know, to be here, to leave, you know, outside the refuge after a storm, and it is the only thing standing, but I hope it will never be a reality,” said Berhs.
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The United States obtain an average of 1,425 Tornado per year, according to the numbers provided by the Ocean and atmospheric national administration and the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center. Almost half of those tornadoes hit from April to June.
