{"id":10818,"date":"2017-04-20T08:36:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2017-04-20T08:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:37:04","slug":"most-tornado-prone-counties-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/04\/most-tornado-prone-counties-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Most tornado-prone counties in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Weather Channel<\/em> posted a story this week about which counties in the United States were most prone to tornadoes. \u00a0Several of them are in Florida. \u00a0You have to keep in mind that tornado statistics by county depend not only on the number of tornadoes, but the size of the county and the population density. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t have people watching, it is going to be harder to get a confirmed tornado, and if the county is small, there is just not as much land to hit. \u00a0You can read more about what was calculated at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/tornado\/news\/most-tornado-prone-us-counties\">https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/tornado\/news\/most-tornado-prone-us-counties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornado-top10counties-numbers-1950-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10819\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornado-top10counties-numbers-1950-2016-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornado-top10counties-numbers-1950-2016-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornado-top10counties-numbers-1950-2016-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornado-top10counties-numbers-1950-2016-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/tornado-top10counties-numbers-1950-2016.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weather Channel posted a story this week about which counties in the United States were most prone to tornadoes. \u00a0Several of them are in Florida. \u00a0You have to keep in mind that tornado statistics by county depend not only on the number of tornadoes, but the size of the county and the population density. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10821,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions\/10821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}