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Trying to plan a trip around where there will be tornadoes, 4 months from now, is a little like trying to plan your retirement by picking lottery tickets.

Everywhere in the central part of the country can see Toranadoes. Even when there is severe weather, your odds of being hit by one are extremely small. I'd be willing to bet that what you describe as "narrowly missing" them, means you saw some severe thunderstorms that may have sparked a tornado or two, but nothing ever touched down any place you were stopped.

I'll put it another way, I know trained meteorologists who go out storm chasing and it's taken them years to see one, and they are trying to find them!

Trying to plan around any kind of weather 4 months in advance is impossible, be it tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, whatever. When you're talking about tornadoes that when they hit, they typically hit a small path that is a few hundred yards wide and a couple miles long, the impossible odds become even longer.

As we very typically say in winter, the only way that you'll have any idea of where a storm might hit is to look at the forecasts - which are only accurate a few days in advance.