I have a dataset showing data on all tornadoes that have happened in the US between 1950-2020. I would like to make a barplot showing the total count of tornados by state (st).

First, I got the sum of tornadoes by state using:

statecount = dplyr::count(tornadodata, st, sort = TRUE)

So the data now looks like this (there's 53 total rows):