{"id":298965,"date":"2025-07-28T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298965\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:59:09","slug":"uks-costliest-tornado-in-birmingham-20-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298965\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s costliest tornado in Birmingham 20 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reason behind this is simply that the USA is a vast country, 75 times bigger than England. It has large areas that seldom ever see tornadoes and it is this sheer size that acts to dilutes their density.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also tornadoes are only reported if they&#8217;re actually seen by someone &#8211; this means population density is important too, and England has a high population density, with lots of eyes on the sky. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In contrast the infamous &#8216;Tornado Alley&#8217; in the US has a low population so it is likely that many tornadoes here go unseen and therefore unreported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the US state of Kansas were a country, it would have a tornado density of 4.5 per 10,000km\u00b2 which is more than double the figure for England.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The smallest country in the world is Vatican City &#8211; if there were ever to be a tornado recorded here, then that one storm would catapult it to the top of the tornado density league. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So tornado density statistics can say about as much about the size of a country, as they tell us about the likelihood of seeing a twister. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reason behind this is simply that the USA is a vast country, 75 times bigger than England.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114931929784660245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}