What state do the Simpsons live in?

[Duke David]

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

Oklahoma?

[BushKenya]

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

[BushKenya]

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

Oklahoma?

We do have our fair share and we just had several strong tornadoes last Monday and one on Tuesday.  We've had them as late as December 2, before.

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.

[BushKenya]

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.

Come to think about it, I think I heard this somewhere before - is it Nebraska?

[Kuu ülevaade olulisematest]

PS: Your post was just one of your numerous attempts to make me look dumb. Congrats!...

Okay...?

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.

Come to think about it, I think I heard this somewhere before - is it Nebraska?

41st

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Without cheating, who knows the state with the highest average of tornadoes per 10,000 squre miles?

It's gotta be Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas, I would think.  Quite possibly Oklahoma.

Oklahoma - 49th, Kansas - 40th, Texas - 44th.

Come to think about it, I think I heard this somewhere before - is it Nebraska?

41st

Arkansas?

[Senator Ben]

South Dakota?

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

[Duke David]

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida

You got it!  With an average of 9.59 tornadoes per yer per 10,000 square miles.

[BushKenya]

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida

You got it!  With an average of 9.59 tornadoes per yer per 10,000 square miles.

That does make sense, with all the waterspouts that migrate onto land.

[greenforest32]

Oregon > Oklahoma

[dead0man]

It pisses me off that I've lived all of my 38 years in various heavyish tornado areas and have never seen one or even been all that close to one.


Maybe "pisses me off" isn't the right phrase.

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Oregon > Oklahoma

I think you mean Oregon < Oklahoma

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Arkansas - 37th
South Dakota - 32nd

I'll give you all a hint: it's south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi.

Florida

You got it!  With an average of 9.59 tornadoes per yer per 10,000 square miles.

That does make sense, with all the waterspouts that migrate onto land.

That's the one thing I'm not sure of - whether or not they count all tornadoes or only tornadoes with mesocyclonic origins.  I'm assuming they must count all tornadoes for Florida to be that high (although the hurricanes do add a boost), but it would be interesting to see statistics from only mesocyclonic tornadoes.

[Senator Snowstalker]

I figured Oregon--has both coastline and rural mountain areas, and Groening grew up there.

[Communists For McCain]

It pisses me off that I've lived all of my 38 years in various heavyish tornado areas and have never seen one or even been all that close to one.


Maybe "pisses me off" isn't the right phrase.

What's really hilarious is that supposedly Tulsa is somewhere in the seven to five tornadoes a year area and I've only seen like six in my entire life.  Two of those I saw while driving outside of Wichita, Kansas, three of those I've seen while living in the OKC area, and only one of those (which I saw a year and a half ago) was in Tulsa.
True, Tulsa gets two or three tornado warnings a year but 90% of the time that happens the super bad tornado that formed somewhere north and west of Oklahoma County merges with other storms and enters badass decay before eventually becoming just a ridiculous severe thunderstorm as it gets within 20 miles of Tulsa County.

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

It pisses me off that I've lived all of my 38 years in various heavyish tornado areas and have never seen one or even been all that close to one.


Maybe "pisses me off" isn't the right phrase.

What's really hilarious is that supposedly Tulsa is somewhere in the seven to five tornadoes a year area and I've only seen like six in my entire life.  Two of those I saw while driving outside of Wichita, Kansas, three of those I've seen while living in the OKC area, and only one of those (which I saw a year and a half ago) was in Tulsa.
True, Tulsa gets two or three tornado warnings a year but 90% of the time that happens the super bad tornado that formed somewhere north and west of Oklahoma County merges with other storms and enters badass decay before eventually becoming just a ridiculous severe thunderstorm as it gets within 20 miles of Tulsa County.

Plus, you have to remember that any area that they do statistics for, the area includes 25 (I believe it's 25, maybe 50) miles around it.  So when they do the stats, it's a tornado within 25 miles of an area.  Otherwise, statistics for a specific area would mathematically approach zero as you get to a smaller and smaller resolution.

[ModerateCoward]

Maine.

[Joe Republic]

Like that one time they went to the 5 corners.

Where is that? All I know of is the four corners (UT, CO, AZ, NM). Is there an actual five corners?

As you've clearly never looked at a map of the U.S., what brings you to Dave Leip's Election Atlas?  It is rather map-oriented, you know.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

I remember getting really excited when I found out they're from "North Takoma," because I grew up in North Tacoma.  Screw the misspelling -- I don't recognize it as canonical.

Also, over the years, they've given completely contradictory information.  Springfield has no possible physical location if you follow all of the clues.

[dead0man]

Indeed.

But if it does exist, it's in the Pacific Northwest.

[Platypus]

My impression has always been that it was Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri or maaaaybe Ohio, Iowa, Michigan or Wisconsin.

States that can be excluded entirely:

Not enough snow:

Hawaii
California
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina

Too much snow:

Alaska

Too small:

Delaware
Rhode Island