re: Tenth Anniversary of the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak

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For some reason, the southeast tornado alley (Dixie Alley) just didn’t get talked about as much until more recently.

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Even as late as 20 years ago storm chasers wouldn't chase down here. Take their "extreme" nature, add advancement in video technology (both mobile and fixed sky cam types), and you have more documentation now than ever before. We also have much better radar for tracking and tornado confirmation, better understanding of tracks, more manpower for surveys, and more people than ever before being weather aware. Now days, an EF0 can't touch down anywhere without someone seeing and/or recording it. A stretch of wooded property in the middle of a national forest with no homes for miles that sees a tornado now will be detected. Those type tornadoes likely would have never gone into the official records just 25 years ago.