My dad is a meteorologist and the way he explained this was Dixie Alley has always been there, and there hasn't actually been an increase in tornados occurring there, there's just been an increase in people going out and documenting every single thing that happens out there. Dixie Alley's tornado season is more March-May, where classic tornado alley has theirs more from May-July

Dixie Alley has always been there. Its not the "new area" or new Tornado Alley.

North Texan here. We’ve had plenty of extremely dangerous tornadoes here in the past 5 years. Not sure how it compares to others but we are still rebuilding from October 2019.

I noticed it has changed in the past 5 years. I'm in West Ky, and nearly every thunderstorm we have, there's a tornado. Tennessee has had a ton in the last 5 years, and what sucks is they're always at night.

Thats dixie alley. Tornados there are also more dangerous due too tree cover.

I seem to recall being taught that the flat, open plains were a factor in tornado alley as well.

I helped digitized and map all tornadoes since 1965 and we do see a general trend of tornado frequency moving eastward.

As someone who is living in the new tornado alley the storms now are Soo much worse. When I was a kid (I'm only 20) we only had 2 tornados come even remotely close. Now I can't even remember how many there have been near to me the past 3 to 4 years. Gosh the states near me rarely had tornados in the past and now it feels like Mississippi has a deadly tornado every month

This year has proven that tornado alley isn’t really moving, it’s just been dormant. The location of “tornado alley” varies depending on the ENSO phase. We’re currently in ENSO Neutral which is why the traditional tornado alley is active this year. The past few years we’ve been in a La Niña which tends to favor Dixie alley. Take all of this with a grain of salt as I’m not a meteorologist but from what I’ve heard from meteorologists this is the case.

Tornado alley and Dixie Alley are two separate areas that exist at the same time

I love in Rogers where a tornado hit this last weekend… I’ve lived here on and off for about 16 years and I’ve never seen anything like it. This and the 2008/2009 ice storm have been the worst situations I’ve seen.

I live in MA and we’ve had more tornados over the last 5-6 years than I can ever remember. We used to get like one every decade or two

She just discovered Dixie Alley.

I'm 58. I grew up in northern Indiana. Tornados have been a fact of my life yearly. My house has a storm shelter to hide from them if they roll to close to the house. It's a yearly season here too.

I've said this for years. Storms when I was a kid we're way bigger and more often . Now we barley get rain.

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fucking imagine moving east out of tornado alley and tornado alley moves with you, that shit is personal

I’m in OK, tornado ripped through our town last weekend and we will be without power for likely two weeks, trees uprooted, houses demolished, sadly even deaths. While tornadoes aren’t always so destructive they can be absolutely devastating.

Dixie alley has always been there, but I can confirm the town that I live in had it's first tornado since the late 80s so it very well could be becoming more frequent...

Nebraska is still in it tho our tornado season has been INSANE this year, and in the past few years we’ve seen the worst storms we’ve had since the 60s

A few clarifications here. Tornado alley does not "move". The Central-East US is a prime area for convection which involves warm gulf air meeting cold arctic air. Where this convection happens changes every single year depending on the season. In the winter that convection happens further south, in the Summer it happens further north. In the spring and fall it happens in the midwest. This is why you see tornados as far south as florida and as far north as canada. Climate change isn't responsible for any changing in tornado alley nor is it "moving east". That isn't to say climate change isn't happening, it is, but it isn't to blame. As many have pointed out, the region you are discussing is called "Dixie Alley". This is the nickname given to Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. There are just as many tornados here as there are in the Midwest, just at different times of the year, and often due to a lack of infrastructure they often are far more fatal, with Alabama and Mississippi having the highest Tornado Deaths per year and per decade. tldr tornado alley isnt moving, it never was and likely never will unless earth gets conditions similar to Venus (which won't happen in any of our lifetimes, or the lifetime of humanity for that matter). Climate change isn't responsible for any correlation in events with where tornados occur.

The historic tornado Alley is exactly where the vast majority of tornadoes are developing this year, the deep South has gotten very few. More than they want, but very few. It seems the variable location of the southern jet stream plays a huge part.

In West Virginia we had up to 17 tornadoes in one day a couple months ago. We are a mountainous region, and tornadoes are fairly rare for us, so you can imagine our shock….

Wait till she discovers Dixie alley

I think the fact that the radar coverage has improved significantly and ability to identify tornadoes when they happen has an impact on the number and spread of tornadoes recently.

We've had exactly 100 tornados this year in Oklahoma as of May 28. Average is 58, this storm season has been crazy for Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.

I grew up in oklahoma, and now live in west virginia. I can walk outside and feel when there's going to be a tornado, but i e learned that even when there IS one here, it's always small. The worst one recently just flipped over some boats and messed up a crab shack. Lots of people here have basements, too, so i feel so much safer.

I grew up in central Kentucky, and we've always thought of it as being in tornado alley. But tornados have gotten worse and more frequent in the region over the past couple of decades.

Tornado alley also extends into Canada on the prairie provinces, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. Though I’ve lived in Saskatchewan 65 years I’ve yet to see a funnel cloud. We do rarely have plough winds which travel straight, there is no circular motion to them

Just as an FYI tornado alley moves over the period of a year. It starts in Dixie Alley in Jan-Mar, Traditional Alley from Apr-Jun, to the high plains during the dog days. It’s then slowly reverses back to Dixie Alley over the fall. However, this traditional path is moving, which is the emphasis of this video.

As someone who lives in Tennessee we just got 3 tornados in the past 2 weeks, and they just keep coming

Northern Kentuckyian here. In the last 3 years we have seen about 7-8 tornados and a lot of servere storms. Based of stuff from my parents this is not normal. My heart also goes out to those in Maysville, Kentucky.

The minute you mentioned CLIMATE CHANGE I stopped taking you seriously! This shows you really haven't done your research.

Seeing as we just had like 20 tornadoes in a single night here in Oklahoma a few days ago I call bs

In the traditional Tornado Alley, tornadoes most often form from the mid afternoon to early evening. Dixie Alley's instability can be maintained long after sunset due to being adjacent to the Gulf, increasing the frequency of intense nighttime and early morning tornadoes.

Noticed this. I live in WI, and tornados are happening more and more every year. From one every few years to three sits in my basement A MONTH

As someone who lives in Alabama, I can confirm that we have a lot of tornados here. The 2011 tornados ripped right through my Nonny’s backyard. Some of my papaw’s friends were found dead in the pastures they owned. There are remnants of gas stations and restaurants that remind us of the tornados every day. And we still have them. At least like 5 or 6 in my 14 years of life

It's not climate change folks. The magnetic poles are moving, as they do every 600,000 years. The poles are shifting about 35 klicks per year now.

I’ve been saying this for years!! Glad to hear someone else explain it!

My family back in Clarksville tennessee just suffered a horrible tornado and they’re popping up nonstop.

I like how in Illinois that there's just a few counties that aren't colored in as if the tornado's avoids that area

You didnt disappoint, you blamed climate change. 😂

south east oklahoma boy here. tornadoes now come with more intensity and more frequent than years prior, imo.

From NJ and can confirm that we get multiple tornadoes a year now when we never did.

This year seems to be a return to form. The Des Moines River is UP for once and Greenfield just got SMACKED today. Very very active tornado season in Iowa again. Not something I’m rooting for but a return to “normal”

Let's not forget Kirstie Alley (RIP) and the ever popular bowling alley which you can find across the region.

it moves with the rain line back and forth over multi decade swaths. We still have rainfall and weather records dating back to the 1920s (when they started really tracking some of it.)

This was a great video. The presenter was flawless, the accurate information was produced in a concise manner, the visuals were precise. Wonderful work, team!! We recognize you and we appreciate you. I sent this to my unbelieving mother, joking that it followed me. Good luck, everyone.

It’s not climate change that warms the ocean! It’s natural!

Maybe it’s just me but I’ve always considered Dixie alley the “real” tornado alley. They’ve had far more devastating tornadoes

I love how there’s a big spot in the middle of Michigan that has nothing and I’m pretty certain it’s where I live because we almost never have tornados

Some pretty substantial weather is preparing to run that exact route. Barely dodging the worst of it so far up here in SoDak

Young Arkansan resident here, we had like 4+ tornados Saturday night from 1:30AM-2:17AM, some spawned in Decatur a few miles from my house and some had also spawned in Rogers. I can’t say tornado alley moved, I’d say it’s became a bit bigger.

Definitely have seen a LOT more storms this year in SW Michigan. Non-stop it seems. Had a really damaging tornado too close for comfort. Spent 3 hrs. in the tub with supplies all over the bathroom in case I got hit. Something is certainly changing! Only 24" of snow this year instead of 60 too. We rarely get tornadoes, but had several this year. Don't be a fool-get to your safe place when a WATCH is issued if not before because a WARNING means it's on the ground and it could touch down next door leaving you NO TIME to get safe. Don't be outside with your freaking cameraphone trying to find it. Be wise. Be safe. Be IN your safe place.

Can confirm. I’m a Floridian and school closed for a tornado warning and it ripped up my neighborhood

Huh. I always thought Tornado Alley was more about the geography of the Great Plains than the weather. Fascinating! Now it makes sense why I always thought Missouri was part of Tornado Alley...

FYI ! Climate change is called WEATHER!

Dixie alley was talked about when I was young and I’m not anymore. One of the reasons that tornadoes are so much more destructive than they used to be in many places is because of housing being built in areas that were open or farm land out in the middle of nowhere.

Dixie Alley Somewhere around 2007/2008 the National Weather Service announced that the area had been slow/non-reactive for 30 or so years but that was about to change. The Spring of 2011 certainly proved the NWS point.

The west just had one of the wettest winters in 2 decades...

That stuff is getting COMMON in West and Central Tennessee

Lived in Mississippi for 12 years… we’ve always had tornados

We rarely ever get tornados here in south Louisiana. Basically just when we have a hurricane. I live right by Lake Pontchartrain in Slidell, and the day after the eclipse we had such bad weather that a really bad tornado hit and tore apart buildings. We were out of power for days.

Summertime and possibly DEWs warm the waters of the gulf-NOT climate change!

What makes Tornado Alley different from Dixie alley is that Tornadoes look for Flat land to build up steam and the tornadoes can build into monsters while tornadoes in the Dixie alley are more short lived from hitting hills and getting Rain rapped.

It’s moving towards Wisconsin. We’ve been getting tornados every other day

It just happens to be the weather pattern this year round. Yes each year it slightly changes and is different but it will go back to a regular tornado alley eventually

"As climate change warms the..." immediately stopped watching. No need to watch any longer when you push fairy tales like climate change.

Lol she said, "climate change".

I’d love to debate you on the real processes and forces behind climate. You literally said “drought creates unstable atmosphere.”

I think climit change is caused by all the windmill changing the direction of the ground winds, and all the solar mirrors dry out the atmosphere due to the reflective heat..

It's not moving. There are several areas where tornados are frequent and are referred to as "alleys", the Plains states ARE tornado alley, the southeast is Dixie Alley, Hoosier/The Ohio Valley are also things. El Nino and La Nina tend to change WHERE tornadoes MOSTLY occur during any given season due to the way the jet stream shifts which can change/limit advection. Any Meteorologist will tell you it's not moving and this year is a great example where we have seen MANY Tornadoes in "Tornado Alley" when you look at the data you have to remember most outbreaks are single day events, not multi-day events. 2011 is not the rule so when we talk about "favorable tornado days" it's a slightly inaccurate way to look at things. Oh also because we now live in a world where everyone carries a camera on them it's a LOT easier to report and verify tornadoes. To summarize the eastern US has ALWAYS gotten plenty of tornadoes and "Tornado Alley" isn't ACTUALLY shifting according to EVERY credible study performed by Meteorologists.

Fun fact: Climate has always changed. Tornado alley actually does move around during different times of year and always has.

I live in Tennessee and we keep having back to back thunderstorms and tornados

I live in Northwest Arkansas and there has been more tornados and tornado watches this year than I’ve ever seen

This is what I call ignorance.

Florida, alabama, illinois, maryland have consistently had the highest tornado frequency, for decades. Also it’s “fewer,” not less. ✌️

Also worth mentioning due to deforestation (or devegetation in the states) and lack of natural barriers such as buffer wetlands, mangrove forests, coral reefs, this is why tropical storms and hurricanes are also able to touchdown and intensify. This is why it’s important to not destroy natures barriers. Unfortunately overpopulation and over development of land complicates this problem even further. It’s a tough issue with multiple facets that all lead back to climate change and sustainable living (responsible farming, fishing, and oil fracking/mining techniques, etc. the list goes on from the big and small pov)

You know you're getting old when you've witnessed the earth changing, and a large yard boulder dissolve into half it's size from when it was placed.

Dixie Alley has always existed and has 2 active seasons. Plus any tornadoes from landfalling tropical systems.

That's Dixie alley!

Atlanta has gotten a few over the past few years. I didn't even know they were possible here

as someone in nc, storms have been getting worse over here

As an amateur meteorologist, I disagree. I believe it has expanded. Tornado Alley will always be Tornado Alley. It was still busy this year. There are other zones, like Dixie, Hoosier and Carolina Alleys. I will never agree that it has "moved" but expanded eastward.

So we are going to act like there were never Tornados in the Southeast haha

She's right I've never seen this many tornados in Louisiana in all my life, I reside on the 3rd floor of an apartment building it's very scary.

We recently had 3 tornadoes touch down in Tallahassee, FL. FUCKED SOME SHIT UP

The southeast is also much more densely populated than much of the old tornado alley area. It's always had a fair amount of tornado activity before this movement. The areas that could afford emergency warning alarm systems have had them for years now.

Stopped listening as soon as I heard climate change.

Texan here. It is Interesting how they are saying the "old" tornado Alley only covered Texas to the Dakotas and Iowa. BUT I have seen other maps growing up where it extends all the way into Canada (above North Dakota) and all the way east to the Carolinas (and down to Florida), and into Ohio and even Wisconsin. When I visited a college in far east Tennessee they had signs all over the place showing you where a safer zone for tornados was and I thought "man, I wish they had these back in Texas." So, no. It is not moving.

As someone who lives in tornado Alley and has watched 3 towns get wiped off the map this year. No. It's still there. It's not moved on it's just maybe expanded

It’s the place where missing socks go from the dryer. 😂

Dixie alley has always been a thing. It’s based off where convection occurs. Early on it’s in the southeast (Dixie alley) and as the season goes on convection “tends” to move west to southern plains, then north t through central plains to the dakotas. This year El Niño patterns pushed storms a bit east to Illinois. But tornado alley is still tornado alley.

I live in Texas and man there have been many tornados I pray for all of the people who were injured

In west Tennessee we’ve gotten more tornado warnings and watches then I have ever seen in my whole life in the past 3 years

I just moved to Texas. We got hit by 2 tornadoes in the span of only one week. We are still very much getting lots of tornadoes in regular tornado alley. El Nino is back which means more storms. There was hardly any rain these past 3 years when La Nina was in charge.

Drought? The Sacramento River in CA Is so full, it is nearly breaching it's banks. The question is where are the new water storage reserviors the voters approved years back? Where is that money allocated for these facilities?

We had tornadoes all the time in Michigan back in the 1980’s. Smaller, but destructive and dangerous.

I've definitely noticed this, too. I grew up in southwest Kansas and that was BIG tornado alley! (I HATE tornadoes! 😱) But - I've noticed the area is moving east and find it curious that the magnetic North Pole is ALSO moving to the east! And in the last decade its been moving eastward at a very fast rate! I wish someone would do research on this coincidence - maybe as a Doctoral thesis! 👍😊

Yeah I beg to differ to a degree. In OK we get an average of 60 twisters per year but got 80+ in the month of May this year alone. We still have to get through several more months!! It’s shifting to include more areas bcz ocean temps are increasing as well as global temps. Expect more hurricane too! We know when it’s going to happen well in advance & we plan ahead here. It saves more lives to be weather prepared. Even businesses close down when threat of severe weather hits town (or city). Be prepared & stay safe!!