In the main Atlantic hurricane thread on the main forum I had seen several years thrown out there as analogs for this years cane season......two of the more common ones were 1996 and 1999 which if you lived in NC are years we got smacked about quite a bit. So the other day Shaggy looked up those years and searched for severe weather to see if they had active severe weather springs or not and to see what those years had. Interestingly enough 4-15-96 had a tornado outbreak in NC then strange