2025 Tornado Warning Heat Map

by Reed Timmer at https://www.facebook.com/reedtimmer2.0

Check out this 2025 TORNADO WARNING HEAT MAP that shows where the severe weather and threats stacked up during the season!

In summary, over 8,000 tornado warnings were issued, a majority of which stem from the active Dixie Alley #tornado season to begin spring, with La Nina in concert with a warm-phase North Pacific Oscillation. This lead to a progressive upper-level storm track which pushes the instability and wind shear east across Dixie Alley March-April.

Then, a shift to neutral ENSO allowed for the severe weather to focus across the Great Plaina during peak spring, with an uptick in late season ridge-rider tornado events across the Northern Plains to Upper Midwest by summer.

Different than 2024 and before, we saw an absence in hurricane landfalls in the U.S. this fall, which held sown the tornado numbers overall despite an insane #tornado season.

Our seasonal forecast did a good job seeing the early season Dixie Alley insanity, but we did not see Junesanity coming for the Dakotas with the ridge rider events.

2026, I think goes big across the southern Plains!