Florida more vulnerable to twisters than Midwest

Published June 13, 2014 5:14pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Oklahoma and Kansas may have the reputation as tornado hot spots, but a new analysis shows that Florida and the rest of the Southeast are far more vulnerable to killer twisters.

Florida leads the country in deaths calculated per mile a tornado races along the ground, followed by Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio and Alabama.

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