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    Nighttime tornado killed at least 23

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    Listened to an interesting podcast from 2022 where the guest was a storm/tornado expert. He and another researcher published an interesting paper in Nature in 2018 where they presented data showing that over time, our "tornado ally" is actually growing eastward, which is particularly concerning. Why? Several reasons...much of what fits what happened in Mississippi.

    When you move out of the plains to the east, you get into forests, more hills/topography, often times into more and cheaper or less well constructed housing unsuited for higher winds (because they didn't used to get tornadoes), plus the storms tend to be at night.

    The trees and topography, even with daytime storms, do a lot to hide tornadoes visually. Add to that the fact that so many farther east are night events, and seeing the danger approach becomes nearly impossible without radar.

    Lastly, as compared to the plains, population density tends to increase eastward from the plains. So there is a greater likelihood of tornadoes hitting a larger amount of the population than they do in the plains.
     
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