Mexico's Tornado Threat Revealed
Mexico, once thought immune, faces increasing tornado threats. A new study reveals 773 tornadoes from 2000-2023, concentrated in specific regions. Researchers classify tornadoes, document historical and cultural perceptions, and analyze damage patterns.
It was believed that tornadoes did not exist in Mexico, but the professor of the College of Geography of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, María Asunción Avendaño García, jointly created the first database on the subject, through which it is confirmed that from 2000 to 2023, 773 occurred, that is, an average of 61 per year. By 2024, there would be approximately 50.
The geographer and teacher in anthropology, together with her teacher Jesús Manuel Macías Medrano, researcher at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, prepared the document called Tornados México, which reports the presence of these phenomena in regions such as Michoacán, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Coahuila and Mexico City.
