Severe Weather Areas? (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio: insurance, tornado, centers)

[dreamfollower]

Of the major metro centers and their suburbs, which areas are least prone to flood and tornado? {i.e. Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston}

Does the temperature/humidity differ between these areas?

[spursfan]

Dallas would be the most likely to have a tornado. San Antonio, Austin, and Houston are all pretty strong flood targets. Houston is the most humid followed by SA/Austin and Dallas.

[Eastender67]

Tornadoes? Houston. Harris County (mostly made up of Houston) had twice as many tornadoes as any other Texas County due to proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

Harris County Leads Texas in Number of Tornadoes

[love roses]

Northern Williamson County can get tornadoes too. There were a few spotted in this May storm we just had. This is North of Austin, by the way. The humidity differs in most of these cities, but the heat is relatively the same.

[spursfan]

I remember seeing some map that had the entire DFW metroplex as tied for the most tornado prone metro area in the US (along with OKC). But i cant find it...maybe it was tornado injuries..

[Bowie]

Originally Posted by spursfan

I remember seeing some map that had the entire DFW metroplex as tied for the most tornado prone metro area in the US (along with OKC). But i cant find it...maybe it was tornado injuries..

Was it this map?

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by Eastender67

Tornadoes? Houston. Harris County (mostly made up of Houston) had twice as many tornadoes as any other Texas County due to proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

Harris County Leads Texas in Number of Tornadoes

True, and as your article states, here's the rest of the story. At least Travis (61) (Austin) and Bexar (58) (San Antonio) are not in the top ten, but they've definitely had their share.

Harris County -- 210
Hale County -- 119
Galveston County -- 108
Jefferson County -- 99
Nueces County -- 93
Lubbock County -- 83
Dallas County -- 82
Lamb County -- 82
Tarrant County -- 80
Johnson County -- 79

Three Texas counties report only two tornadoes since 1950. They are:
Jim Hogg County -- 2
Real County -- 2
Menard County -- 2

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by Eastender67

Tornadoes? Houston. Harris County (mostly made up of Houston) had twice as many tornadoes as any other Texas County due to proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

Harris County Leads Texas in Number of Tornadoes

The proximity to the Gulf of Mexico is an important qualification in the realm of "most tornadoes." There was an article several years ago that showed Florida as the state which received the most tornadoes. However, the vast majority of these twisters were weak "spin off" types spawed by gulf storms and such. I suspect that the same thing is at work in Harris County.

In terms of classic type tornadoes, the north central and northwestern parts of the state (which includes the DFW area) is most prone.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

The proximity to the Gulf of Mexico is an important qualification in the realm of "most tornadoes." There was an article several years ago that showed Florida as the state which received the most tornadoes. However, the vast majority of these twisters were weak "spin off" types spawed by gulf storms and such. I suspect that the same thing is at work in Harris County.

In terms of classic type tornadoes, the north central and northwestern parts of the state (which includes the DFW area) is most prone.

Good point; I hadn't thought about the severity. Actually, none of the counties have had that many deaths, Harris, 12 ~~ Dallas, 13 ~~ Travis, 2 ~~ Bexar, 3.

Williamson because of the huge Jarrel storm, McLennan because of the one in Waco, and Wichita with the one in Wichita Falls have had many more deaths. It only takes one humdinger in any county to really raise the death toll.

[spursfan]

Originally Posted by Bowie

Was it this map?

Yeah that was it....thanks!