How often does 100 or more tornado reports occur in a day?

weathernms · #1 Postby **weathernms** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:20 pm

The question was raised, how often does 100 or more reports of tornadoes occur in a day?

So I did some quick data checking, back to the year of 2000.

What I found is that there has never been a single day that has recorded 100 plus tornado reports but 2 day periods have.

Further information:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5181-Jackson-Weather-Examiner~y2009m5d13-How-often-does-100-or-more-reports-of-tornadoes-occur

#2 Postby **RL3AO** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:10 pm

There have been days with 100+ reports. Now 100+ confirmed might be a different story.

I only went back to May 2003.

Category 5 · #3 Postby **Category 5** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:19 pm

however, rarely are there ever 100 confirmed.

#4 Postby **CrazyC83** » Sat May 16, 2009 2:35 pm

Other than April 3, 1974, I can't think of any days with 100 or more confirmed tornadoes. Maybe in May 2003/2004?

Multi-day outbreaks with over 100 tornadoes confirmed are not unheard of by any means though. From a single system, the last time it happened I believe was May 4-6, 2007 (123 tornadoes). From multiple systems coming rapidly, there were about 600 tornadoes from May 7 to June 15 last year.

How often does 100 or more tornado reports occur in a day?

How often does 100 or more tornado reports occur in a day?

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