Tornado Frequency in the United States 1950-2024

A little bit of context for the Increasing Storms Because Climate Change crowd.

Just one example of the good news which seems to be purposely hidden within the misinformation that is intended to make us all afraid to live our lives. I’ll probably write a more in-depth post on this topic yet.

The data for these charts came from the Wikipedia entry, List of tornado events by year and can be found here.

Is it a crisis that the frequency of tornadoes has been increasing since 1950?

Or should we just relax because the frequency of serious tornadoes has been decreasing since 1950?