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Apr 10, 2020 · April 10, 2020. The F5 tornado that tore through Moore and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on May 3, 1999. This photo was taken near Bridge Creek, about 15 miles southwest of Moore. (Courtesy Erin...
On the afternoon of May 11, 1953, an F5 tornado made a direct hit on Waco, Texas. (On the scale for rating rotational intensity created by storm researcher Ted Fujita, an F5 twister is capable of “incredible damage.”)
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The Fujita classification system changed to a new and more nuanced version in February 2007 when the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage Scalewas adopted by the NWS. One impetus for this change was the discovery that winds did not have to be as strong as earlier thought to produce a given amount of damage. Another motivation was to establish a more thor...
In the first table below, I list all of the tornadoes from 1880 to 1949 that Grazulis has classified as F5 strength and described in detail in his book. The second and third tables show F/EF5 tornadoes as rated by the National Weather Service starting with 1950, the first year of the official NWS tornado database. There has not been an EF5 tornado ...
Parsing data from the above tables, here are some additional statistics and observations. —Since 1880 there is, on average, a F/EF5 tornado report about once every 16 months. —Ten of the 105 F/EF5 tornadoes on record since 1880 occurred on just two days during two spectacular tornado outbreaks: six F5s on April 3, 1974, and four EF5s on April 27, 2...
1. The Tri-State Tornado of March 25, 1925
The ”single” deadliest tornado in U.S. history was the famous Tri-State Tornado of March 25, 1925. At least695 people died in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana when a F5 mile-wide monster carved a course that was apparently 219 miles through the three states. Modern research, however, suggests that this was likely a series of tornadoes developing from a single supercell traversing the area. A 2013 study led by Robert Johns found that the longest truly continuous damage path was 151 miles long,...
2. The Monster Tornado of April 9, 1947
The second-deadliest F/EF5 tornado on record was a monster that plowed for 170 miles through Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on April 9, 1947, killing 181. The town most impacted was Woodward, Oklahoma, where 107 people perished. At some locations along the tornado’s path it was as much as two miles wide, making it one of the largest tornadoes in U.S. annals. This tornado struck just a few years before the modern tornado warning system was established.
3. The Tupelo, Mississippi F5 of April 5, 1936
The third-deadliest F/EF5 tornado was part of a large outbreak on April 5-6, 1936, that led to 454 deaths across the Southeast from Arkansas to South Carolina. Tupelo, Mississippi, was the worst affected, with 216 were killed by an F5 twister on April 5. Gainesville, Georgia, saw 203 lives lost the following day when a F4 tornado struck the city.
Below is a list of all the U.S. tornadoes (of any intensity) that have killed 100 or more people. The location given is for the town/city most affected. So many towns were destroyed by the 1925 twister that they cannot all be listed here, but the town suffering the most casualties was Murphysboro, Illinois which lost 234 of its citizens. On average...
May 11, 2013 · May 11, 2013 Ian Livingston. The Texas Collection at Baylor University recently shared some fascinating images on the U.S. Tornado photo group of Waco following the devastating F5 tornado that hit the city on May 11, 1953. The Waco tornado was one of only five reported that day, though it’s quite likely there were more than that.
Aug 28, 1990 · This tornado remains the only F5/EF5 rated tornado documented in the United States during the month of August. The tornado had low clouds and rain surrounding it, making it difficult to see. Because of this, no known photographs or videos of this tornado exist.
73-112. Moderate damage. Peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving autos blown off roads. F2. 113-157. Considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars overturned; large trees snapped or uprooted; light-object missiles generated; cars lifted off ground. F3.
