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Tornados count relationship to hurricanes in NC


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On 5/3/2011 at 10:28 AM, shaggy said:

A little more breakdown by the numbers:

Of the years where 30+ tornadoes were confirmed we have

1984 with 34 T's and Hurricane Diana

1996 with 31 T's and Bertha/Fran

1998 with 54 T's and Bonnie

2008 with 45 T's and Ernesto

2009 with 31 T's No storm

Thats 80% of those years with a subsequent landfall. The only year that didn't 2009 was a down year for the tropics with a well below avg of just 8 named storms.

Next group of numbers is 20-30 Tornadoes and that was one year only

1989 with 24 T's Hurricane Hugo

Next group 14-20 tornadoes

1991 with 17 T's No landfall(close call with bob)

1999 with 14 T's Dennis/Floyd

2000 with 19 T's No storm

2003 with 17 T's Isabel

2004 with 19 T's Charley

2006 with 18 T's Hanna

So thats 4 out of 6 years with landfalling storms.

We are currently sitting in the over 30 T's range for the year so that puts us in the highest % for POSSIBLE tropical action this year.

We were at 21 tornadoes this year so that put us at an elevated risk according to this theory and of course we had a landfall. 

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So i found 3 storm reports updated on the SPC storm reports late for Feb 6th. They were EF-1 for both gates and Stanley counties and an ef-0 for Randolph county. There were still 4 other reports from Feb 6th that I havent found a survey for and those were Gaston, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, and Gaston counties.

This makes 15 confirmed tornados and 4 others reports I havent found surveys on yet.

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On 8/5/2020 at 6:20 PM, goldsborosnow said:

So there were at least 15 tornadoes between the February and April severe weather events  plus there were likely a few more scattered throughout the year and we've already had a hurricane make landfall in Eastern NC.  

The numbers over the course of 9 years are holding up. Also had Bertha into SC so this is 2 strikes on the carolinas.

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Coming up on the 10th anniversary of this thread starting and the numbers still support the correlation.. The more tornados the higher the hurricane threat. 

That being said the ncdc severe reports site I use hasnt updated in a while. What's my best source for looking for confirmed tornadoes in 2021? 

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