What state do the Simpsons live in?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

They unofficially live in North Takoma.  The state abbreviations used in the show are NT and TA.  We do know that their state borders Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky.  You guys are seriously lacking on your Simpsons trivia.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

They unofficially live in North Takoma.  The state abbreviations used in the show are NT and TA. 

Where would you allocate "North Takoma"?

It supposedly borders Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Oregon doesn't have tornadoes.

Really? Look here.

Yeah, Oregon might have fewer tornadoes than any other state.

The state with the smallest average is Alaska with 0/year (only 2 since 1950).  In second place is Rhode Island with 0.23/year.  Then in 3rd is CT, DE, HI, NV, OR, VT, and WA.  But, in terms of per 10,000 squre miles, it goes, Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, with no ties.

Interesting as well, Delaware, with its average of 1 tornado per year ranks 43rd in terms of equalizing the square milage, with 5.18 per 10,000 square miles.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Oregon > Oklahoma

I think you mean Oregon < Oklahoma

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

You can rule out every state. It's been clearly established that they don't live in any actual state. Trying to figure out what "real" one they live in is a pointless exercise.

Thank you.  I said this pages ago.  I don't understand how this conversation is still going on.