PRESS RELEASE
V
ORTEK LLCMOST TORNADO-PRONE SPOT IN MISSOURI
IS NEAR MACON IN MACON COUNTY
January 14, 2008 Huntsville, Alabama
As part of an ongoing tornado research project, by means of the Site Assessment of Tornado Threat (SATT) 3.0 software, and based on National Weather Service data from 1950 through 2006, the VorTek staff have determined the most tornado-prone spot in Missouri, originally identified in May 2003, remains at latitude 39o 44’ N, longitude 92o 30’ W, which corresponds to a location 1.53 miles southwest of Macon, Missouri, at the County Road 70 crossing of Duck Creek, 0.7 miles west of the intersection of County Road 70 and County Road 123. During the 57-year period noted, 25 tornado track segments have touched down or passed within 20 miles of this point. This includes two F0 tornadoes, ten F1, five F2, three F3, and five F4. If the total land area disturbed by these tornadoes is divided by the land area within the 20-mile circle, on an annual basis the average fraction of land disturbed (or Annual Coverage Fraction) equals 7.4857 x 10-4 or 0.074857%, which is the largest value for any point within Missouri.
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