Pure Wind Marching in a Movement Wholly Circular

So Bill Nye the Science Guy has forfeited his right to the title, by saying this:

Well, there’s not that many other countries that have the configuration of North America to make tornadoes. And the word “hurricane,” you know, is a word coined in the Caribbean, like, so this is a unique, unique area in that regard.

You're right—because other places call their hurricanes "typhoons"...which is spelled 颱風 and means "big wind".

As for other countries having tornadoes, while the US does have one of the widest flat spaces in the world, this map begs to differ with Nye:The orange bits are tornado regions. Notice that one of them is, well, Europe, inclusive?

And hey, as long as we're making linguistic arguments for our claim that hurricanes are unique to the Caribbean (but only because they're called typhoons in the Pacific), does Nye know Japanese has a word for tornado? Namely, "tatsumaki"? German, too, although—in typical German fashion—"Wirbelwind" is so "on the nose" you can't be sure it's not a neologism. Hungarian calls it a forgószél, and its Latin name, "turbó", is the origin of things like, y' know, turbines. But we can't expect Nye to have heard of those, it's not like they're a major feature of countless aspects of modern technology. Or anything. You know.