1. Effect of number of tornadoes in Alabama on population
NGA GIS Fair 2019
Effect of number of tornadoes in Alabama on population
Sam Van Haaren

2. Spatial Problem and Location Map
What is the effect of the number of tornadoes in Alabama on the population of Alabama?
Over the past few decades, tornadoes have been shifting from states like Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, to places further east like Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.

3. Alabama’s Population 2010: 308,745,538
Alabama’s population change from :
Alabama’s Population 2010: 308,745,538

4. Total Number of Tornadoes (1950-2008)
Total number of tornadoes between and 2008: 1543

5. Conclusions
Population Change:
Tornado Heat Map:
More than half of the counties in Alabama have decreased in population from
The circled areas are the areas with the most tornadoes based on the tornado heat map. All of the circled areas have decreased in population since the increase in number of tornadoes in Alabama