Abstract

MACIAS MEDRANO, Jesús Manuel  and  AVENDANO GARCIA, Asunción. Mexico tornado climatology. Invest. Geog [online]. 2014, n.83, pp.74-87. ISSN 2448-7279.  https://doi.org/10.14350/rig.35726.

A brief introduction on some features of tornado database in Mexico is exposed showing its substantive criteria. We resent a brief analysis about main Mexican tornadoes' characteristics, based on data collected between 2000 to 2010, talking about spatial and temporal expressions (historical, seasonal and horary) in order to show the importance of it destruction capacity and also the people's vulnerability in Mexico.

Keywords : Tornadoes; disasters; risk.

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