Tornado alley

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Tornado Alley

A term often used by the media to denote a zone in the Great Plains region of the central United States, often a north–south oriented region centered on north Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, where tornadoes are most frequent.

Since statistics are variable on all timescales, the term has little scientific value.


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