re: Tenth Anniversary of the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak

just my hypothesis on why "Dixie Alley" is just now getting the recognition it deserves as perhaps THE tornado hotspot in this country

as pointed out... technology has gotten a lot better

but the main thing before technology helped is... you can hardly see tornadoes in the south

chasers call it "the jungle" for a reason and really never liked chasing here for that reason... too many trees and such obscure viewing... unlike what you get in the Plains

also... unlike the Plains... meteorologists like to remind us that tornadoes in this area are typically rain-wrapped... another thing to obscure visual identification of a tornado

tornadoes in the south don't typically stand out like the ones on 4/27/11

now that the technology has gotten better... we are understanding that was before was just a "severe thunderstorm" is now a tornadic storm with killer potential

I would venture to say it's probably been this way for a long time and just within the last decade or 2 are we really starting to understand the threat we're under from tornadoes in the spring before we get to the threat of hurricanes in the summer