We are leaving the warm season and soon beginning the cold season in Wisconsin, which means the chances for severe thunderstorms diminishes and that also eliminates the threat of tornadoes. This has been a very active year for tornadoes across the state with thirty-eight recorded through this date, and that count began very early on January 7th with the famous Wheatland Tornado in Walworth and Kenosha Counties. The tornado total ended abruptly in Wisconsin in late July as the dry spell hit the state, with the last recorded tornado striking near Pittsville in Wood County on July 29th. The month with the greatest amount of tornado activity was June when twenty-one tornadoes were documented across Wisconsin. This has also been a very active year nationally with more than two thousand tornadoes documented so far across the United States. The greatest amount of tornadoes by month occurred in May when almost six hundred tornadoes developed across the country. The death toll from tornadoes is also at a ten year high with 123 fatalities reported through this date. The state with the greatest number of fatalities is Tennessee with thirty-one followed by Arkansas with twenty-one and Missouri with nineteen casualties. Most direct tornado related fatalities occurred in mobile homes followed by permanent homes and then automobiles.