[BC] Tornado Alley

[Mike McCarthy]

I think it was more in relation to the fact the main twister path was 42
miles long and was heading right for the Chicago metro...along with a NFL
game being played in the bullseye. The 1990 Plainfield F5 killing 33 still
lives fresh in many folks minds. And this twister had the potential to
cross some of the same area depending on the prevailing winds aloft.

That and the fact there was a regional outbreak killing 7 total...in
mid-November. A month not known for Midwestern/Mid-Mississippi/Lower Ohio
Valley warm weather severe events. Rather, blizzards and cold weather
related events.

A radar plot on the Chicago NWS page shows the constantly re-forming
circulations from before Pekin to over the south end of Lake Michigan
before finally dissipating.  That along with the other reported and now
confirmed twisters.

MM

>  I was surprised that the mid-western tornadoes got national coverage. I
> suppose it was to balange the coverage of the Philippine disaster. When I
> lived in Nebraska, right at the end of tornado alley, the almost-weekly
> tornadoes got no coverage at all -- except when KFAB transmitting towers
> got twisted together.
>
> Last year there was a devastating tornado in Monson, Massachusetts. It