An Enquirer analysis found tornado counts are way up over the past 15 years, compared to the previous 50. But scientists aren't sure what it means.

“As an individual, 10 percent really shouldn’t change your risk perception very much, because tornadoes are still relatively rare events,” Brooks said. “But it may matter a lot to people ...

"Historic" tornadoes devastated multiple states in a single night. Climate change could make future tornado disasters even deadlier.

So it's just, just a numbers game really," Naylor said. So yes, tornadoes can hit big cities, but it's not as common simply because in the US there aren't as many cities as there is rural land.

It's getting more common for a lot of tornadoes to form over a big area in a short period of time. But the total number of tornadoes each year in the U.S. is stable.

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An analysis found tornado counts are way up over the past 15 years, compared to the previous 50. But scientists aren't sure what it means.