http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/05/02/pm-update-spectacular-spring-weather-continues-friday/?wprss=rss_weather_forecasts&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

"Record low tornado activity in last 12 months: Harold Brooks of the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center reports just 197 tornadoes of intensity EF-1 or higher touched down nationally in the 12 months between May 2012 and April 2013 (the next lowest number is 247 between June 1991 and May 1992), the lowest such number since reliable records began in 1954."