"While other severe weather accompanies thunderstorms, such as hail and straight$-$line wind damage, tornadoes garner much of the attention. The SPC compiles tornado statistics along with archives of storm reports and all of their forecast discussions and graphical products. An event day is a day with considerable, organized severe thunderstorm activity within a relatively small region, typically capable of producing a tornado. It does not account for multiple events on the same day. The tally of event days by month since $2000$ is available from the SPC at Link $11$A$-5.$

$7.$In $2022,$ the number of event days was $\_\_\_\_\_\_.$

a$\mathrm{.}170$

b$\mathrm{.}165$

c$\mathrm{.}160$

d$\mathrm{.}155$

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