{"id":1522,"date":"2013-05-21T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2013-05-21T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:33:02","slug":"information-on-tornado-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/05\/21\/1522\/","title":{"rendered":"Information on Tornado Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though CDC&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics does not have specific data on tornado deaths, we do have data from our mortality database on deaths from &#8220;cataclysmic storms,\u201d which includes tornado deaths (International Classification of Diseases Code X-37). This specific ICD code includes blizzards, hurricanes and tornadoes, but doesn&#8217;t separate deaths by tornadoes alone.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a chart from our WONDER database that shows how many deaths occurred under ICD Code X-37 from 1999 to 2010.\u00a0 There are a few things to observe from these data: First, according the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association, the spike in deaths in 1999 was a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/torn\/1999deadlytorn.html\">93 tornado deaths<\/a>.\u00a0 There was also another spike in X-37 deaths which occurred in 2005 during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/outreach\/history\/#katrina\">Hurricane Katrina<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/outreach\/history\/#rita\">Hurricane Rita<\/a>, the notorious storms that devastated the Gulf Coast.\u00a0 Finally, the 2008 spike in deaths was a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/torn\/2008deadlytorn.html\">125 tornado fatalities<\/a> that year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/deaths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1527 alignleft\" alt=\"Deaths\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/deaths.jpg?w=148\" width=\"148\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though CDC&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics does not have specific data on tornado deaths, we do have data from our mortality database on deaths from &#8220;cataclysmic storms,\u201d which includes tornado deaths (International Classification of Diseases Code X-37). This specific ICD code includes blizzards, hurricanes and tornadoes, but doesn&#8217;t separate deaths by tornadoes alone. Below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}