Tornado Warning Days

For temperature and precipitation, it has been well established that
this growing season has been a lot like 1988 (our previous worst
drought year). It is interesting when other metrics, like the one
presented in today's feature plot, equal 1988 as well. The featured
chart presents the number of days per year with at least one tornado
warning issued for somewhere in the state of Iowa. Due to the nature
of having severe convection happen over midnight, a day is considered
to be a 24 hour period ending at 7 AM. This year has only seen 6 days,
which is the smallest total since 1988! The green bar represents the
number of days after 19 August until the end of the year. 1988 saw an
additional day with tornado warnings issue, will 2012 as well?

Voting:
Good = 30
Bad = 5

Tags: ? tornado ?

Source: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/features/cat.php?day=2012-08-19

shannon de lima joe torre west virginia university michele bachmann jessica biel tim howard west virginia