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The 2013 Moore tornado was a large and extremely violent EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013, with peak winds estimated at 210 miles per hour (340 km/h), killing 24 people (plus two indirect fatalities) and injuring 212 others.
May 20, 2023 · A tornado outbreak occurred during the afternoon and evening hours of the May 20, 2013, and was the last day of a three-day stretch of significant severe weather from May 18-20, 2013. This event also produced the most deadly and devastating tornado of the year for Oklahoma and the the United States.
A tornado outbreak occurred during the afternoon and evening hours of May 20, 2013. A total of 15 tornadoes were produced in Oklahoma with 5 tornadoes in the NWS Norman forecast area and 10 tornadoes in the NWS Tulsa forecast area.
May 20, 2023 · Aftermath of an EF-5 tornado that hit Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, OK on May 20, 2013 (National Weather Service, Norman, Oklahoma / NOAA) Another 12 people died as their homes were destroyed near the school.
May 21, 2013 · A tornado half a mile wide struck near Oklahoma City on Sunday, part of a massive storm front that hammered the central United States. News reports said at least one person had died.
The City of Moore and surrounding areas have experienced three tornadoes with an intensity of EF-4 or greater, including the 2013 event, in the past fifteen years. An F-5 tornado occurred May 3, 1999 and an F-4 tornado on May 8, 2003, both of which destroyed large sections of Moore.
May 21, 2013 · MOORE, Okla., May 20 (Reuters) - A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble.
