Tornado Totals and Tornado Related Fatalities

TORNADO TOTALS AND RELATED DEATHS...THROUGH WED JAN 25 2011 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0806 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012

Counts by Year (Tornadoes)

Month	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
1	47	21	84	6	30	16	70 / 0
2	12	52	147	36	1	63
3	147	170	129	115	33	75
4	244	167	189	226	139	748
5	139	252	461	201	304	326
6	120	128	294	270	324	160
7	70	69	93	118	118	103
8	80	75	101	60	55	57
9	84	52	111	8	57	51
10	76	86	21	65	108	23
11	42	7	15	3	53	60
12	42	19	46	48	32	33
Totals	1103	1098	1691	1156	1254	1715	70 / 0

Note: For current year the two numbers indicate Preliminary/Actual

Counts by Year (Tornado Fatalities)

Month	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
1	1	2	7	0	0	0	2
2	0	22	59	9	0	1
3	11	27	4	0	1	1
4	38	9	0	6	11	360
5	3	14	44	5	7	178
6	0	0	7	0	12	4
7	0	0	1	0	2	0
8	1	1	0	0	1	2
9	1	0	2	0	2	0
10	0	5	0	1	0	0
11	10	0	2	0	0	5
12	2	1	0	0	9	0
Totals	67	81	126	21	45	551	2

Counts by Year (Killer Tornadoes)

Month	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
1	1	1	4	0	0	0	2
2	0	3	12	2	0	1
3	7	10	3	0	1	1
4	9	3	0	3	2	43
5	1	4	10	3	4	9
6	0	0	4	0	6	1
7	0	0	1	0	1	0
8	1	1	0	0	1	2
9	1	0	1	0	2	0
10	0	3	0	1	0	0
11	3	0	2	0	0	2
12	2	1	0	0	4	0
Totals	25	26	37	9	21	59	2

PRELIMINARY = 2011 PRELIMINARY COUNT FROM ALL NWS LOCAL STORM REPORTS.
ACTUAL = ACTUAL TORNADO COUNT BASED ON NWS STORM DATA SUBMISSIONS.

PLEASE NOTE: THE PRELIMINARY COUNT IS A COUNT OF EYEWITNESS 
REPORTS FOR TORNADO EVENTS...*NOT* A COUNT OF ACTUAL TORNADOES.
 
COMPARISONS BETWEEN PRELIMINARY COUNTS AND ACTUAL COUNTS FROM PRIOR
YEARS SHOULD BE AVOIDED.

Data on this page is courtesy of the Storm Prediction Center.

2012 Deadly Tornadoes


2012 PRELIMINARY KILLER TORNADOES
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0805 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012

          TIME                STATE
## DATE   CST  COUNTIES       DEATHS   A B C D WATCH EF CIRCUMSTANCE
-- ------ ---- -----------    ------   - - - - ----- -- ------------
01 JAN 23 0315 JEFFERSON      AL   1   1 - - - WT007 2  01M
02 JAN 23 0400 JEFFERSON      AL   1   1 - - - WT007 3  01H
                                 ___ ___ _ _ _
TOTALS:                          002 002 - - -

FATALITIES BY STATE: AL02

FATALITIES BY CIRCUMSTANCE: 01M 01H

A = IN TORNADO WATCH
B = IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
C = CLOSE TO THE WATCH /15 MINUTES OR 25 MILES/
D = NO WATCH IN EFFECT
H = HOUSE
M = MOBILE HOME
O = OUTDOORS
P = PERMANENT BUILDING/STRUCTURE
V = VEHICLE
U = UNKNOWN
WS = SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH /NUMBER/
WT = TORNADO WATCH /NUMBER/
EF = ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE RATING

2011 PRELIMINARY STATISTICS ARE AVAILABLE AT:
HTTP://WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/CLIMO/TORN/FATALTORN.HTML

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