Environment Why So Many Tornadoes Are Striking the US

A warm spell and a low-dipping jet stream are fueling the monster storms that are spawning tornadoes today across a wide swath of the country, weather experts said.

Today, the Storm Prediction Center has received 311 reports of severe weather, including 48 reported tornadoes and a few reported fatalities. This massive storm system also spawned deadly tornadoes on Leap Day, which raked Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. The severe storms killed at least 12 people and included a strong EF-4 twister in Harrisburg, Ill., a rarity for February.

As of this morning, the severe storm risk area covered an estimated 162 million people, or 56 percent of the United States, according to weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Even here in europe they talk about this in the radio and in television news.
Luckily i have never heard of tornados appearing in central europe, what is it with the US and tornados? Why do so many of these spawn in america?

A short summary, the Great Plains of US allows tornadoes to be born, from the jet stream that blows from West to East, which pushes both the warm air current from Mexico and the cool air current from Canada, causing them to touch and create a form similar to how hurricanes form.

Unfortunately, Europe does not have stable warm air currents from the south. It will take a miracle and a lot of bad luck for tornadoes to form there.

Unfortunately, indeed.