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"It may have taken a while to arrive and when it did, it came in fast and furious. I'm talking about the tornado season this year.Remember all the blog posts you read about how slow the season was and how it likely wouldn't get started until well into April? (It's OK if you don't remember. We upload fascinating weather stories on here every day that we can't seem to squeeze into the newscast, so come back here often.)After going through a nasty May and early June, the tornado season is finally showing signs of coming to an end. Check out the 10-year monthly average of tornadoes.April, May and June are our hot months when it comes to tornadoes with May being the pinnacle. But come July we see a noticeable drop in tornado reports. The reason? The jet stream moves well to the north where the ingredients are not as pronounced as we typically see in April and May.This is where you're most likely going to find tornadoes during the month of July.Northeast Colorado and Eastern Wyoming tend to be areas that experience more tornado reports than elsewhere during this time of year. There is one area that I did not shade on this map, and that was the coastal areas along The Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.Tornadoes can happen there but are most likely associated with tropical storms or hurricanes. Due to the infrequency of these events, I left them off on purpose.So, are we wrapping up the tornado season? Yes and no. For Oklahoma, the answers is essentially \"yes\" though every now and then we do get a freak event that can spin up a tornado here.Oklahoma averages less than two tornadoes every July. Since 1999 there have only been two tornadoes to occur in this state combined. Obviously the likelihood of a tornado in this state during July is quite low.The last three years have shown a wide range of tornado reports across the country during July -- anywhere from 146 to just 37 last year.So what is the conclusion here? While tornadoes can happen during July in Oklahoma, they are extremely rare. You're going to have to head north into Nebraska,Colorado, The Dakotas and Southern Canada to find these storms.See ya later 2013 tornado season ... and don't you come back!Footer Weather"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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