Prepare: Worse Twister Terror Arriving. 'Hurricane Strength'

The U.S. had a quiet tornado season until Sunday. That changed quickly Sunday, with epic storms resulting in 38 deaths, hundreds injured, hundreds of homes lost, with hurricane strength winds and historic flooding worse than hurricanes in some areas. Millions of Americans, however, need to be better prepared because worse is expected in May. 

For three days, over 30 twisters across the South and Plains killed 38 people and destroyied hundreds of homes.

April and May are the busiest tornado months, particularly deadly ones. Historically, the number of tornadoes spikes in the two months, according to more than 40 years of National Weather Service data. Approximately 48 percent of all confirmed tornadoes have touched down in April and May in recent years, responsible for over 85 percent of all confirmed deaths:

“It’s early enough that the jet stream of air flowing down from Canada is still cold and lively,” reports NBC News. “At the same time, it’s late enough into spring that air flowing north from the Gulf of Mexico has had enough time to heat up.”

In April, those two streams generally start clashing over Gulf Coast states, creating “a lot of tornadoes, and a lot of killer tornadoes,” in places like Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, said Greg Forbes a severe weather expert for The Weather Channel.

As May arrives, those collisions generally happen further north, over states like Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri and northern parts of the Tennessee Valley.

That happened last May around the Moore, Okla. region when cold and warm air joined to produce an almighty EF5 tornado packing wind speeds of 210 mph — almost three times hurricane strength. Over 50 people died.

While “the size of a tornado doesn’t necessarily correlate well with its strength,” said Greg Postrel, a forecaster for The Weather Channel, EF5s are responsible for 52 percent of all deaths, even though they comprise only around1 percent of recorded tornadoes.

Until Sunday, the weather service had recorded the fewest tornadoes since reliable records using modern statistical methods began in 1950, according to National Weather Service data. No one had died – until a North Carolina infant injured by a tornado Friday, died Sunday, the latest into a year since 2002.

With 38 people killed since Sunday, “I would say the past couple of days have made up for it,” Pat Herald, a meteorologist for the weather service, told NBC station WTOV of Steubenville, Ohio. And “we’re just moving into the peak period now.“

States of emergencies in the 10-state region since this past weekend are just the beginning of what’s to come in 2014, as meteorologists and climatologists say, most blaming global warming and its deniers. Other scientists blame weather modification and weather warfare, such as through chemtrails and HAARP.

(Read: Weather Warfare, Global Warming, Or Both Feeding Superstorms?)

By the end of this tornado season, both climate change and weather warfare experts are likely to have at least a few more denier converts.  

Sources: NBC News, Weather Channel, Before It’s News