How can a community have a "habit" of attracting tornadoes?

I think it’s just a different way of saying “tornadoes are a common occurrence here”.

It could be that the location and layout of the town is perfect for the formation of tornadoes. That or they are damn unlucky.

Like Future Memory said, I’m sure they just meant to say they are a common occurence there.

It’s the wrath of god. There must be a whole lot of shrimp eating, cotton/polyester blend wearing homosexuals in that little town.

also, seems like tornadoes are attracted to mobile home parks!

don’t have an answer Val!

@lillycoyote Ain’t no hom-sex-u-alls or shrimp in Kansas. You know that!

I know what they meant….They meant that the town’s geography some how attracted tornado activity. It just struck me as a strange way to say it. I mean, a habit is something one does over and over again because that’s what they are used to doing, but it’s a decision. It’s a choice people (and animals, I suppose) make. Not communities or boxes or tables….....Ah heck. I’ve been teaching English and odd stuff like that keeps hitting me upside the head.

I was not sure if you knew, but tornados are attracted to the mid-west because of the flat land. This flat land allows more free convection and advection for systems to build up. If there was no rocky mountain range in the northwest, it could probably be worse too.

Bad karma. Dudes must have been bad in an earlier life.

@Val123 and @BoBo1946 What’s the difference between a divorce and a tornado in Oklahoma? Nothing. Either way somebody loses a trailer. :)

@lillycoyote LOL! You reminded me of this one: How are hurricanes and women alike? When they come, they’re wet and wild, but when they leave, they take your house and your car.

@lillycoyote loll..

@Blackberry…I live there in those flat lands! Smack in the middle of them. In fact, all day yesterday Weather.com and the newspapers were yelling about tornado “outbreaks” and “Tornado alley will fire up tonight!” I was like…“K.” They were amazingly right this time, too! Got lots of black skies, wind, hail….and me in a little building with no basement! But, I’d made “plans” earlier so I knew what I would do if it really happened this time. (When we owned the mower shop I’d look around the shop every spring, about this time, at all the lawn mower blades, saw heads, chainsaws, all KINDS of nasty stuff out there waiting to get picked up and hurled and us with no place to go and think…“Gee, I hope this place doesn’t get hit!!”)

Now, you need to help me in shutting @lillycoyote and @bob down. They’re being silly. Not allowed…...

@bob_ and @lillycoyote Knock it off. Let’s get serious, now…...Do you know why the wind blows in Kansas?..............................................................................................?
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Because Okalhoma sucks.

That’s serious stuff, man, cause it does too. They don’t got no property tax and their road SUCK!!!

@Val123 Who’s being silly? You’re the one who continues to live in a place where an ordinary mower shop can be turned into a huge Quisinart, ready to puree you, your family, your house, your cars, your pets. Who’s the silly one?

Lilly. Be serious. Pets were at home. So was my house. Sheesh.

In “Tornado Alley” conditions are ideal for that sort of thing. If I were to see a tornado in New Hampshire, that would be quite unusual. Some coastal communities in the Southeast seem to “attract” hurricanes.

Yes, the geography of the land can attract tornadoes. I know this. I live in Kansas. But the statement was that a community had a “habit” of attracting tornadoes. A habit is a conscious, willful act done repetitively. A non-living entity can not develop a “habit.” Was my point.

Speaking of “Tornado Alley…” My four year old grandson who lives in the same small town as I do, heard that term somewhere and he told my daughter, his mom, “It would not be good to live in tornado alley!”
Mom was like, “Um…well…um…I have news for ya son!”
They set the sirens off every Tuesday at noon to test them (except not this week cause it just wouldn’t be a good idea with all the storms and stuff) and every time he hears them he yells, “We’re in tornado alley again!!!!” :)

Figure of speech.

@mattbrowne Sniff. It’s an incorrect figure of speech!

@Val123 – Well, topography and microtopography might have a certain influence but the major influence comes from atmospheric layers and sublayers.

@mattbrowne AH butt! The atmospheric layers and sublayer must be influenced to do certain things more often by the topography of certain areas, than by the topography of other areas, even when the atmospheric layers and sub-layers are the same over both topographies. In other words, you could have identical atmospheric conditions over Alabama and Kansas, and a tornado will be more likely to happen in Kansas than in Alabama, so there!!! How many tornadoes have you had in Germany compared to when you were at that nasty place called KU?

@Val123 – Germany get a few dozen EF1s every year, a few are EF2 and maybe be one EF3.

The last EF4, then called F4 was 1968 in Pforzheim. Big event.

There are more tornadoes in Italy, UK and Russia.

Lucky for us the Alps are a tornado killer avoiding the clashes of warm and cold atmospheric layers because they run east-west while the Rockies run north-south.