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Notable U.S. tornado events with at least one F2 (minimum 113 mph) tornado between Dec. 24 and Dec. 26:
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Dec. 24-25, 1964: Fourteen tornadoes (three of them F3)
in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia. Two deaths in Georgia; about 30 people injured.
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Dec. 25, 1969: Twelve tornadoes (two F3) in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. One death in Louisiana; 17 injuries.
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Dec. 25-26, 1973: Seven tornadoes, two of them F2, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Two injuries.
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Dec. 24, 1975: Three tornadoes (one F3) in Texas and Florida. No injuries or deaths.
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Dec. 24-25, 1977: Three tornadoes (one F3) in Mississippi and Florida. Seven injuries.
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Dec. 24-26, 1982: Twenty-nine tornadoes (one F4, two F3) in Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi. Three deaths in Arkansas and Missouri; 32 injuries.
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Dec. 24, 1988: One tornado (F4) in Tennessee. One death; seven injuries.
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Dec. 24, 1997: Three tornadoes (one F2) in Alabama. Five injured.
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Dec. 25, 2006: Six tornadoes (four F2) in Georgia and Florida.
Fourteen injured.
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Dec. 24, 2009: Twenty-two tornadoes (three F2) in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Four injured.
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 Other statistics:
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Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida are the most likely states to have tornado events around this time of year.
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The last time a number of tornadoes
affected the Gulf Coast area around Christmas Day was in 2009, when 22 tornadoes occurred during the morning of Dec. 24.
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In over 60 years there have been two EF4-rated tornadoes on Christmas Eve: one in 1982 in Arkansas, the other in 1988 in Tennessee.
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The last killer tornado around Christmas was a Christmas Eve F4 in Tennessee in 1988, killing one person and injuring
seven.
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