Below are the states that aveage more than 20 tornadoes per year with their averages. Note that these are only averages, and that the number of tornadoes that hit a state in a given year can vary widley.
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Texas with 147 tornadoes per year
Tennessee averages a little less than 30 tornadoes per year.
Texas, though the average is much more than 110 per year.
No State has had more than 900 tornadoes in any particular year or event. The following states have recorded more than 900 tornadoes in total since official records began in 1950 up through 2013.Texas (8,201)Kansas (3,886)Oklahoma (3,554)Florida (3,176)Nebraska (2,690)Iowa (2,306)Illinois (2,257)Missouri (2,098)Colorado (1,970)Mississippi (1,966)Alabama (1,918)Louisiana (1,827)Arkansas (1,714)South Dakota (1,702)Minnesota (1,662)Georgia (1,455)North Dakota (1,440)Indiana (1,365)Wisconsin (1,284)North Carolina (1,214)Tennessee (1,131)Ohio (1,001)Michigan (985)South Carolina (933)Note that more states likely deserve to be on the list, as many tornadoes, particularly before the 1980s, were never recorded.
Florida and Kansas.