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From an article on our local news station's website. The "mark" the guys talks about is about a mile from my house as the crow flies...great.

"As Severe Weather Awareness Week winds down, you're probably aware that the Valley is a dangerous place.

Harvest Monrovia is an area subject to tornado touchdown.

One spot above all is in northwest Madison County, a location not far off Highway 53, and even closer to Douglass Road.

There's more than a hundred others across Madison county, but only one most vulnerable spot.

100 yards deep in the middle of a cotton field long since picked clean, it looks like any other cotton field in Madison county, but this one's different.

According to the math, this exact spot is the most tornado prone area in all of Alabama.

A spot that was determined in a tiny building where Doctor Frank Tatom punches numbers into a computer program he developed, all based on the amount of land disturbed by twisters in the past 56 years.

Sixty-eight tornadoes passed within 20 miles of latitude 34 degrees, 48 minutes, longitude 86 degrees, 41 minutes, where a pin pokes the map, where dark red lights the monitor, where x marks the spot.

According to Tatom's study, Alabama is the 8th most tornado-prone state.

Huntsville is the 2nd most tornado prone city."