Catastrophic 'Tornado Alley' may be moving east

The country's Tornado Alley – a twister-heavy area typically associated with the Great Plains- is now shifting eastward, an alarming new study found.

Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and parts of Ohio and Michigan, according to the study, published Wednesday in the journal Climate and Atmospheric Science.

Fewer funnels are breaking out across the Great Plains, including Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas – with the biggest drop in the central and eastern parts of the Lone Star State.

Still, the study said, Texas sees the most tornadoes out of any state.

The Victor Hugo, who teaches atmospheric sciences at Northern Illinois University.

"More folks at general risk of that eastward shift," Gensini said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association said the Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas.

Gensini said the Great Plains is becoming more of a driving force than spooding tornadoes.

Twisters like to form along the "dry line" where there are more thunderstorms due to the Gulf to Mexico to the east.

That "dry line," he noted, is moving east.

The shift is what you expect with climate change.

"This is what you would expect in a climate change scenario, we just have no way of confirming it at the moment," Gensini said.

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This story originally appeared in the New York Post.