More tornadoes than usual have already struck the U.S. in 2025—and many of them have been touching down farther east than ...

AccuWeather says recent severe weather outbreaks have sent preliminary tornado reports skyrocketing to levels that are nearly double the historical average for early April.

You can see this general month-by-month progression in the maps ... tornado activity is illustrated by recent weather history: The U.S. averaged 1,246 tornadoes annually from 2004 to 2023.

Tornado activity ... than this year are 2023 with 530 and 2017 with 536. As AccuWeather predicted, the Southeast and Mississippi Valley have seen the bulk of the tornadic activity.