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T he big one: On May 3, 1999, a tornado up to a mile wide tore a 38-mile long path in almost 90 minutes through parts of Grady, McClain, Cleveland and Oklahoma Counties, including parts of Bridge ...
Feb 27, 2023 · One such violent tornado was the Bridge Creek–Moore Tornado on May 3rd 1999 in Oklahoma . It is uncertain if the records that exist contains information about all the tornadoes that have ever occurred for one reason or another. However, of the records that exist the Bridge Creek–Moore Tornado is one of the most intense known tornadoes to ...
5 days ago · A family walks through what is left of a neighborhood in Moore the day after a deadly tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City metro area on May 3, 1999. ... Baptist Church in Bridge Creek the day ...
May 3, 1999 · On May 3, 1999, multiple supercell thunderstorms produced many large and damaging tornadoes in central Oklahoma during the late afternoon and evening hours. Some of these storms were killers, including the twisters which moved through and/or near Dover, Shawnee, Perry and Bridge Creek, and the Moore and southern Oklahoma City metropolitan areas ...
The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado (locally referred to as the May 3 tornado) was a large and exceptionally powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally were recorded at 301 ± 20 miles per hour (484 ± 32 km/h) by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar.
May 3, 2019 · With a maximum width about 8/10ths of a mile, the tornado that struck Bridge Creek and Moore with F5 intensity was the deadliest to hit the country since one killed 42 people in the Terrible Tuesday outbreak of April 10, 1979. It would be the deadliest to strike until April 27, 2011, when individual tornadoes killed 64 and 72 in Dixie.
The 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado was a very violent F5 tornado that hit the Bridge Creek and Moore areas of Oklahoma on the evening of May 3, 1999. It had the highest wind speed ever recorded at 301 miles per hour (484 km/h). [6] . It killed at least 36 people and hurt 583 others. [5] . It caused $1 billion in damage. [7] .
