United States tornado reports in landfalling tropical cyclones used in Paredes et al. (2021)

These data include all tropical cyclone tornado reports used in Paredes et al. (2021) plus an additional year (e.g., 2020).  These data will not be updated regularly.  For the latest version, users should refer to https://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/edwards/TCTOR/ or contact [e-mail].

Each specific tropical cyclone tornado record has been extracted from the broader Storm Prediction Center tornado database, for all Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico tropical cyclones to affect the continental United States from 1995–2020. The tornado records were analyzed individually to determine their presence within the circulation envelope of either a classified or remnant tropical cyclone, without regard to fixed radii from tropical cyclone center, inland extent, temporal cutoffs before or after landfall, or other such arbitrary thresholds that may either exclude tropical cyclone events or include non-tropical cyclone tornadoes unnecessarily. Unlike other climatologies previously published in the literature, the chosen time period for this examination essentially covers only the full national deployment of the WSR-88D radar network in the United States. This permits consistent comparisons of a very large sample size of tropical cyclone tornado events (>1600) during the era of modernized National Weather Service warning and verification practices.