How strong a wind does it really take to blow over a mobile home?
Lightweight mobile homes can be flipped by a 60 mile per hour wind. Heavier mobile homes may not go until 70 or 80 miles per hour. And a tied down trailer might stay put at 110 miles per hour. • Where is Tornado Alley? There are several areas that can be considered “Tornado Alley”. The area from central Texas to Colorado, North Dakota and Minnesota commonly gets this poorly defined label. But there is also a tornado-prone area that extends eastward from Texas to Georgia that can be considered as a Tornado Alley, and still another “alley” from Arkansas to the Ohio River and the Great Lake states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. • Are there places that are not in Tornado Alley that still get more than the average number of tornadoes? Florida gets more small tornadoes per square mile than any other state, but so few big ones that most people don’t consider it as a “tornado alley”. Southern New England seems to have its own little “tornado alley” in western Massachusetts and Connec
