How Did the Sunday Morning Tornado Forecasts Work Out? - Updated

Long-time readers will recall our policy of verifying our major storm forecasts, whether they were good or bad. 
Sunday, I differed considerably from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center's forecast of where tornadoes were going to occur. So, I posted both forecasts. Above is the 9am forecast from my blog: the NWS's tornado forecast was in brown, mine in red. Hatching meant strong tornadoes were possible, per the NWS. I do not attempt to forecast tornado intensity.

Now that the affected NWS offices have completed their storm surveys, the result is below. Updated 9:45am Thursday for two more tornadoes.  
There were 12 tornadoes: inverted triangles are their locations. Clearly our forecast was superior as it encompassed all but one of the tornadoes. It did not forecast a large geographic tornado threat area (brown) in western Kansas and northern Oklahoma where no tornadoes occurred. The strongest tornado was one of F-2 intensity which is the lowest threshold in the "strong" tornado category. That occurred in southeast Kansas. 

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