The above map is for 4/14/12 when a severe outbreak of tornadoes was experienced in the central US. Much to NOAA's credit, this outbreak was forecast and publicly announced at least 24 hours in advance, and this probably saved many lives.
If you go to the title link, you will find a page with options in blue blocks across the top. Click the Severe Thunderstorm block, and you will get another page with many graphical forecasts and recent historical maps like the above. This map is titled "Yesterday's Severe Thunderstorm Reports" and is in the lower right hand list of these graphical options. Selecting this option also gives one the actual reports in CSV (Excel readable) format, so if you really want to research whether severe weather is increasing, you can get the data to analyze this.
What do I plan to do?...I plan to continue to believe the true meteorologists and climate scientists studying this question.
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