Severe Weather Outlook from Storm Prediction Center

ZCZC SPCPWOSPC ALL
WOUS40 KWNS 250939
ARZ000-ILZ000-INZ000-KYZ000-MOZ000-MSZ000-TNZ000-251800-

PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0439 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2011

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE LOWER
MISSISSIPPI...MID MISSISSIPPI...AND LOWER OHIO VALLEYS THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER PARTS
OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI...MID MISSISSIPPI...AND LOWER OHIO VALLEYS
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE

CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA
WESTERN KENTUCKY
CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI
NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI
WESTERN TENNESSEE

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/pwo.html

Nothing like Joplin Sunday evening though. Last I seen we lost 5 people and 7 with injuries.

Tornado's scare the living shit out of me and I'm not too damn proud to admit it.

If you finance my move to Arizona. That's about the only place that doesn't have too much severe weather, earthquakes, etc. However, they get flash floods in Arizona, too, so that's out.

Your facts are interesting and sensible, but suggesting people leave a region isn't. There's no place on earth that's safe, even without global warming.

My parents emigrated across an ocean..

maybe on "How The States Got Their Shapes"...

but anyway, supposedly the "safest" state in the US is Hawaii.

I wouldn't have chosen Hawaii myself. Vermont, maybe. Or Maine. Or even Massachusetts.

We don't get that many hurricanes. Whatever earthquakes we get are very minor. Tornadoes do happen, but not like they do in Tornado Alley. No Tsunami.

Snow and ice are the main dangers here, and that's not all year long.

Go figure...

:shrug:

Not that there will necessarily be more of them.

The one that just took out Joplin was a monster.

And this interactive tornado map sure shows a big jump in the number of tornadoes after 1995, for whatever reason.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/28/us/tornado-deaths.html?ref=us