Before moving back here last summer I had previously lived in Florida from 1959 to 1989. Only went through two hurricanes in 30 years, both were in Pensacola. The panhandle gets many of the storms as well as the east coast of Florida. We are inland here so we're usually not in the path, and unlike tornadoes you'll have a couple of days notice if you need to leave.
While growing up in St. Petersburg we had many funnel clouds, I remember once seeing seven at one time all over Tampa Bay. However they usually don't hit the ground. It seems the vast majority of devastating tornadoes happen in the midwestern states like Oklahoma and Kansas and maybe in the south in places like Alabama. I lived the last twenty years in Maryland and we had several deadly tornadoes, so even the northeast can get them.
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