WeatherNLU -- done and done. You should have something in the next few minutes. He got it, just forgot to reply.

spook -- we have what you could call "Super" hurricanes, with winds over 150mph, but with the Saffir-Simpson scale in wide use in this part of the world, there's no need for yet another designation.

Also, tornadoes do occur throughout the world. Like you won't hear about many of our tornadoes in other parts of the world, you don't hear about theirs here. However, the US does have more than most other nations, likely a result of favorable synoptic (large-scale) weather patterns.