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"tornado" Definitions
  1. a violent storm with very strong winds that move in a circle. There is often also a long cloud that is narrower at the bottom than the top.
"tornado" Synonyms
cyclone storm typhoon hurricane whirlwind twister squall tempest windstorm gale superstorm wind funnel tropical storm dust devil tropical cyclone weather event monsoon waterspout willy-willy vortex whirlpool maelstrom swirl eddy Charybdis whirl gulf flood counterflow countercurrent gyre swirling blizzard morass quagmire act of God accident earthquake marvel phenomenon wonder circumstances beyond one's control force majeure freak accident inevitable accident natural disaster supernatural event unavoidable casualty unforeseen event vis major predetermination uncontrollable event More
"tornado" Antonyms
calm peace quiet calmness clearness serenity tranquility(US) tranquillity(UK) peacefulness placidity stillness respite restfulness sereneness breeze

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"This was a tornado generator, tornado after tornado," he said.
Tornado watch A tornado watch means that a tornado could strike that day.
Video from Jonesboro, Arkansas shows #Tornado tornado ravaging through town.
Exactly ... could cause a tornado somewhere else, or a lack of a tornado.
An early March tornado outbreak in the Alabama-Mississippi area is not unusual, tornado experts said.
New Orleans tornado A tornado ripped through a New Orleans neighborhood, causing some injuries and destroying property.
A tornado was confirmed in the area The tornado touched down in Dallas around 9:30 p.m.
MYERS: The greatest threat of a tornado is being hit by something that the tornado is moving.
Tennessee tornado Tennessee is under a state of emergency after its deadliest tornado day in seven years.
"Eureka sustained a direct hit from a tornado," Greenwood County Emergency Management tweeted soon after the tornado struck.
In 1999, they issued a tornado "emergency" for Moore, Oklahoma, before an EF5 tornado that killed 36 people.
The Fujita scale is used to estimate the wind speed of a tornado by the damage the tornado causes.
Tornado Alley — a hotspot for tornado formation in the U.S. — has shifted 500 miles east since the mid-1980s.
Just 27 minutes after the first tornado alert was issued, Alberta emergency officials reported the tornado threat was over.
There was even a tornado warning that included Charlotte's metro area, and eight tornado reports across the entire state.
The tornado, which primarily devastated Lee County, near the Georgia border, was the deadliest U.S. tornado in six years.
Fatal tornado in Mississippi A fatal tornado struck southern Mississippi on Saturday, as severe weather gripped much of the Southeast.
The deadliest tornado caused by a hurricane came in 1964, when Hurricane Hilda spawned a tornado that killed 22 people.
This fantastic — and certainly dangerous — "tornado" could be used as outdoor lighting, but really, it's just an awesome freaking fire tornado.
Yet, of the 21 states that regularly face tornado risk, only a third require tornado shelters to be built in schools.
Until the 1990s tornado data was primarily based on someone spotting a tornado and reporting it to the National Weather Service.
Here are ways to stay safe during tornado season: During tornado season, the National Weather Service advises residents in storm-prone areas to check the forecast often and listen to local news and radio for tornado watches and warnings.
But a tornado warning is not issued until a tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar, the prediction center says.
By Sunday evening, a few counties in Georgia were under tornado warnings, and there were reports of a tornado in central Georgia.
A tornado warning means a tornado is already occurring or will hit soon and you should get to a safe place immediately.
The last day without a tornado was May 22.72, making Wednesday the 14th consecutive day that the continental US saw a tornado touchdown.
" In Berks County, Pennsylvania, another tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service "based on video received showing a tornado on the ground.
In 2017, a tornado hit Yunnan Province in southwestern China -- the first time a tornado there had been documented in over 30 years.
There were also tornado warnings popping up on the National Weather service tornado Twitter feed as a line of storms moved east-northeast.
Alabama tornado aftermath Days after the tornado, residents in this neighborhood along Lee Road 39 are struggling to process the devastation around them.
Then her counselor played a recording of a tornado siren, trying to simulate a tornado drill, like the ones held at her school.
Either you just found out there's a tornado warning in your area, there's a tornado watch in your area, you're trying to prepare for a tornado early on or you think it'd be wise to know what to do JUST in case.
Fatal tornado in Mississippi Preliminary damage assessments conducted in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Saturday showed a tornado packed winds reaching between 136 and 165 mph.
A tornado watch is in effect for parts of Louisiana and Mississippi through Saturday morning, meaning conditions are favorable for a tornado to develop.
That's where the warning comes in, if the radar has indicated a tornado, or someone has spotted a tornado in progress, that's when the tornado warning is issued and you should get to your safe place immediately, stop what you're doing and seek shelter.
And those hurricanes also triggered tornado outbreaks across the southern United States, contributing to one of the most active and prolonged tornado seasons ever documented.
AROUND THE WEB: There was a tornado in Minnesota -- in March -- on Monday, the state's earliest tornado on record, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports.
A water spout, a weather phenomenon that resembles a tornado, formed over Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans, and the Weather Service issued a tornado warning.
The NWS has lifted all its tornado warnings, but issued a tornado watch for northeastern Texas, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern Louisiana at 3:30 a.m.
Recent storms have reached record numbers Here are some more staggering figures from this recent streak of tornado activity: May 28 was the 12th consecutive day with at least 8 or more tornado reports in the US, which makes it the longest stretch on record for at least 8 reports per dayThe last day there was no tornado reported in the US was May 15Since May 15, there have been more than 365 tornado reportsOn average, there are 276 tornado reports in the month of May.
The outbreak of severe thunderstorms that struck the heart of "Tornado Alley" on Tuesday sent legions of tornado chasers onto area roadways in search of tornadoes.
Those winds are "similar to a tornado, except this tornado is 80 miles wide," says Jeff Weber, a meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
The hilly terrain with dense trees is very different from Tornado Alley, which is very flat and allows you to see the tornado coming for miles.
One tornado skirted just a few miles north of Joplin, Missouri, on the eighth anniversary of a catastrophic tornado that killed 161 people in the city.
An EF-210 tornado hit Putnam County, and an EF-26 tornado slammed Davidson and Wilson counties before dawn Tuesday, the National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday.
At times, the smoke gathers in tornado-style columns, pulling the flames up into the column and creating what looks like a tornado filled with fire.
Unlike the Plains, where a tornado can be seen coming from miles away, the South has much more rugged terrain, making it difficult to spot a tornado.
It said a suspected tornado had been seen traveling southeast near Vandalia, about 10 miles north of Dayton, and had crossed the path of the first tornado.
Get alerts First things first: Understand the difference between a tornado watch and tornado warning, and be able to identify your city and county on a map.
Tornado in Joplin One of the tornadoes that hit Missouri was near Joplin, on the eighth anniversary of an EF5 tornado that killed 161 people in that city.
More than 23 tornado reports in 250 days So far this year, there have been at least 22 tornado reports, compared to the average year total of 26.
U.S. tornado records only date back to 1950, and much of Tornado Ally was so sparsely populated before then that tornadoes may have occurred without anyone seeing them.
Why it matters: This death toll makes Sunday the deadliest tornado day in the U.S. since an EF-5 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, in May 2013, killing 24.
Use this with more caution, this means conditions are favorable for tornado development, and so, you need to know what you should do in case a tornado strikes.
Most of Florida and parts of Georgia were under tornado watches Sunday as the hurricane's destructive core powered its way into Florida's Gulf Coast, and tornado warnings followed.
A recent devastating tornado in rural Lee County, Alabama, had a familiar narrative for people who live in one of the nation's growing number of tornado prevalence zones.
Tornado predictions use various data streams, including data from Doppler radar, which records information on sound and light waves traveling through the air to find signature tornado-causing behavior.
A page called Tornado Intercept posted a wider shot of the engagement in its full spooky glory, including the tornado, dark clouds, and open grassy field behind the couple.
The single deadliest tornado to ever hit the United States, the "Tri-State Tornado," killed 695 people and injured 2,027 others in Southern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana in 1925.
" The Society adds a note about the more famous Howard tornado: "A more dramatic photograph of a tornado that struck South Dakota four months later soon overshadowed his work.
Go deeper: In photos: What California's "fire tornado" left behind How the Carr Fire morphed into a towering, deadly "fire tornado" By the numbers: Unprecedented devastation of California's wildfires
The tornado warning was set off by "radar signatures" showing a tightly wound pattern of air "moving in opposition rotation" — a telltale sign of a potential tornado, he said.
"We have a tornado watch, it's definitely possible to have a tornado spin off a tail end wind," Carlie Buccola, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, told DNAinfo.
" - Emily, 33 "Drove by a tornado in Kansas.
The National Weather Service is investigating today whether or not it was a confirmed tornado -- though they had put out a Tornado Warning just after the damage reports came in.
Around eight minutes before the tornado struck, the National Weather Service upgraded that to a tornado warning, and authorities said alerts were sent out to every cellphone in the area.
So when you hear, 'Oh, there's a tornado warning,' you figure everyone's going to be trapped, and the tornado will pass ominously close, and it will be about the conversations.
Unlike the Plains, where a tornado can be seen coming from miles away, the South has more rugged terrain and more trees, making it more difficult to spot a tornado.
Although the Lee County tornado with winds as high as 170 miles per hour was considered an EF 4 tornado (on a scale of EF 1 to EF 5), the death toll was essentially as high as was that caused by a massive EF 5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma in May 85033.
The storm crossed into Missouri, where more tornado warnings were issued at about 7:30 pm local time and a new tornado from the same thunderstorm touched down near Kearney, Missouri.
"It was like a Dr. Seuss book of tornadoes," said Jason Persoff, referencing "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" -- one tornado, two tornado, each different in shape and size.
Over the last decade, there has been a southeastward shift of tornado risk areas from "Tornado Alley" in Western states like Oklahoma and Kansas to Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
On video, it looked like a glowing, orange tornado, that post-storm damage surveys have shown contained winds of at least 143 miles per hour — equivalent to an EF-3 tornado.
We'll start with the most urgent -- a tornado warning.
A tornado warning means that a tornado has been indicated by radar or spotted, and people in the warning area should seek shelter in a basement or interior room away from windows.
A tornado is a column of "rapidly rotating air that comes from a powerful, towering thunderstorm" also known as a supercell, Janice Dean, Fox News' Senior Meteorologist, explained ahead of tornado season .
Here are some of the weapons they used: UK Tornado fighters Britain contributed four Tornado fighter jets armed with Storm Shadow cruise missiles to the operation, the UK's Ministry of Defense said.
A tornado with an associated satellite tornado. The large tornado on the right is the 1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornado and the small tornado to the left is a satellite tornado. A satellite tornado is a tornado that revolves around a larger, primary tornado and interacts with the same mesocyclone. Satellite tornadoes occur apart from the primary tornado and are not considered subvortices; the primary tornado and satellite tornadoes are considered to be separate tornadoes.
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The Tri-State Tornado holds many records, including the longest known tornado track, fastest speed for a significant tornado, and the deadliest tornado outside of Bangladesh.
The tornado is officially estimated to have been an F5 tornado on the Fujita scale; however, the rating is questionable, since the tornado demolished frail structures. Tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis classified the tornado as an F4.
This is a phenomenon that is distinct from a satellite tornado, which is a smaller tornado which forms very near a large, strong tornado contained within the same mesocyclone. The satellite tornado may appear to "orbit" the larger tornado (hence the name), giving the appearance of one, large multi-vortex tornado. However, a satellite tornado is a distinct circulation, and is much smaller than the main funnel.
Tornado pushed Firestorm around the arena for a bit. Firestorm was having trouble getting under Tornado because their scoop was so low to the ground. Eventually they pushed Tornado into Shunt and Tornado got axed by the House Robot. Firestorm wedged Tornado into the wall.
This tornado might have been part of a Tornado Family, as 30 minutes before the Philadelphia Tornado struck, another tornado struck West Chester, killing one. This tornado also may have been part of a Derecho event producing an outbreak, as another strong tornado struck Alliance, Ohio, and storm damage reported from Chicago to Cleveland down to New Jersey.
The tornado was rated EF1. This unusual tornado has been described as a "hybrid" between a landspout and a typical supercell-spawned tornado.
Tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis classified the tornado as an F4.
According to Vortex Times, The Frostburg Tornado was the fifth most intense tornado in the entire United States in 1998. The 1998 F4 tornado was not the first twister to hit Frostburg. The city and nearby areas were also struck by an F2 tornado on November 23, 1891, an F1 tornado on June 23, 1944, and another F2 tornado on July 5, 1969.
The first tornado was reported near Belle Plaine, which was rated F0. After the first tornado lifted, the same supercell produced another tornado, which would go on to impact structures near Mulvane. This tornado directly hit a house and completely removed it from its foundation. After the Mulvane tornado dissipated, another photogenic tornado touched down near Rock and was rated F0.
Parent article: List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in Europe.
A tornado outbreak sequence, or tornado outbreak day sequence, sometimes referred to as an extended tornado outbreak, is a period of continuous or nearly continuous high tornado activity consisting of a series of tornado outbreaks over multiple days with no or very few days lacking tornado outbreaks. Major tornado outbreak sequences occurred in the United States in May 1917, 1930, 1949, 1965, 1974, 2003, and 2011. Another exceptional outbreak sequence apparently occurred during mid to late May 1896. Although some days lacked tornado outbreaks, the period from mid to late April 2011 and late May 2019Scientists forecasted late May tornado outbreak nearly four weeks before it ripped through U.S. also were periods of especially high tornado activity.
A tornado outbreak spawned an F3 tornado killing five people in Alabama.
Armed with a scoop and spinning chain, Tornado pushed Gravity into the guardrail, and then into Sir Killalot. Tornado then continued pushing Gravity around the arena until Gravity got behind Tornado and flipped them. Gravity chased Tornado, but now both Gravity's tires were flat. Tornado pushed Gravity onto the flame pit.
Gravity flipped Tornado again. Tornado recovered and pressed the Pit Button and shoved Gravity into the opening pit. Tornado was into the finals once again.
The 1990 Plainfield tornado was a devastating tornado that occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 28, 1990. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. It is the only F5/EF5 rated tornado ever recorded in August in the United States, and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area. There are no known videos or photographs of the tornado itself; however, in 2011, a video surfaced online showing the supercell that spawned the tornado.
The 1919 Fergus Falls tornado was a large and destructive tornado that struck Fergus Falls, Minnesota on Sunday, June 22, 1919. It killed 57 people and is the second deadliest tornado in Minnesota's history (1st was the 1886 Sauk Rapids tornado). This tornado occurred just 10 months after a tornado in Tyler, Minnesota killed 36 people. That twister was Minnesota's fourth deadliest on record.
With 30 fatalities, the Saragosa tornado was the deadliest storm in the United States during the 1980s and was the deadliest storm in Texas and in the US since the Wichita Falls tornado in 1979. During the following years, it was surpassed by the Birmingham, Alabama Tornado in 1998 and the Oklahoma City Metro Area tornado in 1999 that killed 32 and 36 respectively. The Jarrell Tornado in 1997 killed nearly as many as in the Saragosa event.Tornado History Project - Tornado Database As of 2008, it still remains as the ninth deadliest tornado ever in the state between the Zephyr tornado in 1909 and the Lubbock Tornado in 1970.
A large, long-tracked F3 tornado caused major destruction in Moundville and Nevada, injuring one. That afternoon, an F2 tornado caused heavy damage in Galt. Another F2 tornado then damaged Blue Ridge. The final tornado of the outbreak was an F2 tornado that caused heavy damage in Marcus, Lambert, and Bismarck, Arkansas.
When a satellite tornado does occur, there is often more than one orbiting satellite spawned during the life cycle of the tornado or with successive primary tornadoes spawned by the parent supercell (a process known as cyclic tornadogenesis and leading to a tornado family). On tornado outbreak days, if satellite tornadoes occur with one supercell, there is an elevated probability of their occurrence with other supercells. Satellite tornadoes may merge into their companion tornado although often the appearance of this occurring is an illusion caused when an orbiting tornado revolves around the backside of a primary tornado obscuring view of the satellite. During the March 1990 Central United States tornado outbreak, one member of a tornado family (rated F5) constricted and became a satellite tornado of the next tornado of the family before merging into the new primary tornado which soon also intensified to F5.
Early 2003 model Tornado Tre 900 2005 model Tornado Tre 900 RS The Benelli Tornado Tre 900 was a motorcycle made from 2002 to 2014 by Benelli of Pesaro, Italy. The last model was designated as the Tornado Tre 903.
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Over the course of a few miles, the new tornado intensified and the original one abruptly constricted and apparently became a satellite tornado to the new tornado. Eventually, the Hesston tornado (after traveling nearly ) occluded and merged with the new tornado, and the supercell began to re-intensify. The new tornado rapidly became very large, and violent damage was produced by the second tornado in Marion County. Several homes were again completely obliterated and swept away and one additional fatality was reported.
Surveys of the damage caused at New Richmond and elsewhere determined the tornado had a damage path of roughly 400-500 yards, or slightly over a quarter-mile in width. In Terms of fatalities, the New Richmond Tornado presently ranks as the ninth deadliest tornado in United States history. At the time of its occurrence, it ranked as the third deadliest tornado in American history, outflanked only by the 1840 Great Natchez Tornado and the 1896 St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado. Since 1899, the record has only been surpassed six times, those being the Amite-Purvis Tornado in 1908, the Tri- State Tornado in 1925, the Tupelo and Gainesville tornadoes in 1936, the 1947 Woodward Tornado and most recently the 2011 Joplin Tornado.
The only exception is that if the extreme winds are associated with a tornado, a tornado warning (or more likely a tornado emergency) will be issued instead.
The tornado was the deadliest and most destructive of the numerous tornadoes that were part of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. A 2006 National Geographic Channel documentary, Ultimate Tornado, discusses unusually violent tornado events and includes footage of the outbreak. The tornado ultimately claimed a total of 36 lives throughout the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
The 1996 tornado season saw fairly average numbers across the board, though fatalities were lower than average at just 26. There were a few notable outbreaks, but most were outside the main "tornado alley" of the midwestern United States. The July F5 tornado that struck Oakfield, Wisconsin was the first F5 tornado since 1992. And the first F5 Tornado in the state of Wisconsin since the 1984 Barneveld, Wisconsin Tornado.
An F2 tornado injured three in LaPlace, Louisiana while an F2 tornado in Ellisville, Mississippi, an F1 tornado east of Holt, Florida and an F2 tornado in Apalachicola, Florida, which occurred in the early morning hours of November 23, all injured one. The final tornado to cause casualties was an F1 tornado that injured one south of Canadys, South Carolina. In the end, the tornadoes killed one and injured 18.
The F4 tornado is the only violent and the strongest anticyclonic tornado ever recorded.
The RAF purchased around 225 ECM pods for the Tornado GR1 (IDS Tornado) fleet.
This tornado was the first Massachusetts tornado on record during the month of February.
An extremely active period of tornadoes took place towards the end of April as daily tornado outbreaks occurred for 10 straight days. The tornado outbreak sequence produced 117 tornadoes across an area from Colorado and New Mexico to New York. The first major tornado occurred on April 18, when an F3 tornado hit rural Grayson County, Texas. The next day, all the casualties occurred in Wisconsin. A violent F4 tornado struck New Lisbon at the beginning of its path through Juneau County, killing one. Later, an F2 tornado hit Saxeville in Waushara County, injuring one. Another F2 tornado injured two on the south side of Burlington. A large F3 tornado also struck Glendale and Kendall. April 20 then saw a brief, but destructive F1 tornado injure one in Duncan, Oklahoma. Tornado activity ramped again on April 21. A half-mile wide F4 tornado tore through Whitharral and Littlefield, Texas, injuring seven. Another F4 tornado hit Downtown Lubbock, injuring six.
The maximum width of the tornado was roughly . The EF2 Aurora, Nebraska tornado A separate round of tornadoes in Nebraska was also significant. A tornado emergency was later declared for Aurora, Nebraska as a large tornado was approaching town. Accessed through WebCite.
A tornado outbreak hit the Great Plains. A long-tracked F3 tornado or tornado family traveled for 140 miles across western and central Kansas, injuring 5 people. Another F3 tornado destroyed 7 homes and a church near Konawa, Oklahoma. One house was carried .
A violent F5 tornado family tore directly through Downtown Fargo, killing 10 and injuring 103. The supercell produced the first tornado at 5:40 PM CDT near Wheatland, North Dakota. The weak F0 tornado moved east-northeast, tossing haybales and damaging crops. After , the tornado lifted and another tornado touched down just to its the south.
Later, an F2 tornado struck Southwestern Oklahoma City and Moore, injuring six. A wide F2 tornado then killed three and injured one near the town of Schoolton. Limited tornado activity continued over the next two days. The strongest tornado to occur on April 29 was a massive, wide F2 tornado that struck Raymond and Panchoville, injuring four.
The tornado left massive destruction and killed 94 people. The Worcester Tornado would be the most deadly tornado ever to hit Massachusetts.Gaultney, Bruce (2009). Worcester Memories, pp. 79. 1950s.
A tornado was recorded in Regina, Saskatchewan. The exact date of the tornado is unknown.
Similar to the previous tornado however, there were no casualties from this early-morning tornado.
No deaths were reported from either the Forney tornado or any other tornado that day.
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The Plainfield Tornado challenged both meteorologists and citizens in terms of tornado preparedness. Substantial safety measures have been enacted in the years following the tornado; among the improvements are frequent and regular tornado drills performed in schools. After the tornado, meteorologists studying tornadic patterns in the area found that a major tornado (F3 or higher) strikes Will County about every 12 to 15 years. There have been no major tornadoes in the county since 1990.
Three other mobile homes were destroyed by the tornado before it crossed into Wilson County. Once in Wilson County, several more mobile homes sustained significant damage before the tornado lifted. Damages from the tornado in both counties amounted to $700,000. The tornado was rated as an EF2 by the National Weather Service. A home destroyed by the Elm City tornado The most significant tornado during the outbreak touched down around 3:30 a.m.
The fourth consecutive F2 tornado then moved directly through Huntsville, Texas, injuring two. Later, in Louisiana, an F2 tornado hit areas northwest of Lake Arthur. A large, 1000 yard wide F1 tornado struck areas northeast of Laplace. Another F1 tornado injured three in Boothville-Venice.
Tornado activity continued in between the two larger outbreak sequences. On May 22, an F3 tornado injured four west of Malone, Texas. After that, an F1 tornado injured two in rural Ellis County, Texas. Later, another F1 tornado injured one in rural Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Another long-tracked F3 tornado then struck the towns of Fairmont, Garber, Western Billings, and Blackwell, causing major damage. Later, an F1 tornado injured four in Dickson. A destructive F3 tornado struck Bowlegs and Sportsman Lake, injuring 15. More tornado activity then occurred in Kansas.
This particular tornado had the fastest tornado wind speeds on record. The interstate was severely damaged where the tornado crossed it. In the end, this tornado was blamed for 36 deaths. A section of I-44 was moved slightly north between Powellville, Missouri and Doolittle.
The tornado completely destroyed a large home and caused severe damage to several other homes. This was the second EF4 tornado to strike Louisiana in 2010. The Atlanta tornado was the 13th EF4 tornado of the year in the United States, the most since 1999.
A period of several successive days with tornado outbreaks in the same general area (spawned by multiple weather systems) is a tornado outbreak sequence, occasionally called an extended tornado outbreak.
The Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornado strength from weakest, an EF0 tornado, to strongest, an EF5 tornado, by the damage the tornado caused to property and infrastructure. An EF0 tornado has winds from , may take off a roof or damage gutters, and can bring down tree limbs. If a tornado causes no damage because it did not occur in a populated area, it is always classed as EF0. An EF5 tornado has winds over and can totally destroy reinforced concrete structures, even throwing rail cars a considerable distance.
The 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado was a deadly F5 tornado that struck Vicksburg, Mississippi on Saturday, December 5, 1953. A total of 38 people were killed, 270 others were injured, and damages were estimated at $25 million (1953 USD) in damage. It remains the fifth-deadliest tornado to affect the U.S. state of Mississippi, behind the 1840 Great Natchez Tornado, the 1936 tornado in Tupelo, the 1971 tornado in Cary, and the 1966 tornado in Jackson. It is one of just four F5 tornadoes recorded in Mississippi since 1950.
The tornado was rated an F5 by the National Weather Service, and the National Centers for Environmental Information (then called National Climatic Data Center) indicated that the damage path of the tornado was roughly or wide and long. The tornado destroyed virtually every house and business building in the community, but all residents survived. The tornado was accompanied by an F-3 anticyclonic tornado two miles to the southeast. One unusual aspect of the F5 cyclonic tornado and F3 anticyclone tornado was the simultaneous right turn made by each.
Tornado activity became more severe heading into the evening and nighttime hours. An F3 tornado injured two in rural Titus County, Texas. A long-tracked F2 tornado tore through Bartlesville and Dewey, Oklahoma, injuring 26 on its path. Another F3 tornado then hit Lake Eufaula and Checotah, Oklahoma, injuring one. An F2 tornado then injured one in Southern Como, Texas. Another person was then injured by an F3 tornado that passed through rural Franklin and Titus Counties in Texas. This was followed by another F3 tornado struck in Italy and Northwestern Avalon, Texas, injuring four.
The tornado caused $1 billion in damage, making it the second-costliest tornado in U.S. history,However, adjustment for growth in wealth shows the May 27, 1896 Saint Louis–East Saint Louis tornado to be the costliest on record. See and the most costly in history from 1999 to 2011, at which point it was surpassed by the 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado and again by the 2011 Joplin tornado. It was also the deadliest tornado to hit the U.S. since the April 10, 1979 F4 tornado that hit Wichita Falls, Texas, which killed 42 people.
Along with the Tri-State Tornado and the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, it ranks as one of Missouri's and America's deadliest tornadoes and is also the costliest single tornado in U.S. history ($2.8 billion). It was the first F5/EF5 tornado in Missouri since May 20, 1957, when an F5 destroyed several suburbs of Kansas City. It was only the second F5/EF5 tornado in Missouri history dating back to 1950. It was the deadliest U.S. tornado since the April 9, 1947 tornado in Woodward, Oklahoma, the seventh-deadliest in U.S. history.
That same tornado struck Jefferson City. This was part of the tornado outbreak of May 2019.
The east tornado, which was an estimated F4 tornado, was the most destructive of the two.
Damage from the tornado amounted to $225,000 (USD) In Pike County, an F3 tornado touched down south of Hollonville. The tornado damaged or destroyed five houses and injured three people. Damage in Pike County, Georgia amounted to $750,000 (2006 USD). The same thunderstorm that produced the tornado in Pike County, produced another tornado that touched down in Lamar County causing minor tree damage.
The supercell continued into Georgia and produced an F3 tornado. The tornado tore through Mitchell County impacting subdivisions on the south side of Camilla. Unbelievably, another F3 tornado followed nearly this same track back in February 2000. Some residents in Camilla rebuilt homes destroyed by the tornado three years ago, only to find their new homes damaged or destroyed by this tornado.
On June 1912, a tornado locally referred to as the Regina Cyclone devastated the city. The tornado remains the deadliest recorded tornado in Canada. The "Regina Cyclone" was a tornado that devastated the city on 30 June 1912 and remains the deadliest tornado in Canadian history, with a total of 28 fatalities, the population of the city having been 30,213 in 1911.
A half-mile wide F3 tornado tracked along the Neosho River and Grand Lake O' the Cherokees, striking the towns of Langley, Disney, Dennis, and Grove, Oklahoma injuring three. Later, another F3 tornado hit Watova, Oklahoma. Another F3 tornado hit Rubio, Iowa before the worst tornado of the outbreak occurred. A violent F4 tornado hit Stonewall, Oklahoma, killing seven and injuring 12.
An F1 tornado hit Orange, Texas, causing considerable damage. Just over six hours later, a rare F2 tornado struck Yakima, Washington, which also caused considerable damage. Neither tornado caused any casualties.
The tornado then quickly strengthened into an EF3 tornado NW of Bowdle. A large number of outbuildings were severely damaged or destroyed. Tree damage was widespread in the area. The tornado continued to move northeast and reached its peak intensity as an EF4 tornado north of Bowdle.
A fatal F3 tornado then killed one and injured three in Kokomo. Later, an F2 tornado injured three in Austin. March 7–8 featured more destructive tornado activity. On March 7, a large F1 tornado moved through Bolivar County, Mississippi, including the town of Alligator, injuring 10.
This tornado continued into Iowa, where it only produced F1 damage. An F3 tornado hit Buckner and Orrick, Missouri. The tornado collapsed the roof of the high school in Orrick, killing two students. The tornado also destroyed two homes and tore the roof from a third.
300 structures were reported damaged. A tornado emergency was not called for Lancaster, but a tornado emergency was called for the nearby cities of Dallas, Greenville, and Arlington. Retrieved 3 April 2012. No deaths were reported from either the Lancaster tornado or any other tornado that day.
A tornado was reported near Cape Coral and multiple tornado warnings were issued for Florida in association with rain bands from the storm. Twenty-three homes were damaged by the tornado in Cape Coral. Damages to 11 out of 23 of the homes from the tornado amounted to roughly $103,000. Florida Governor Charlie Crist briefly toured the damage from the tornado. The tornado was later rated EF0 with winds between 70 and 80 mph (110 and 120 km/h).
The tornado followed a path similar to that of the F5 tornado that hit the area on May 3, 1999. The tornado became the first EF5 tornado in nearly two years. On May 21, an EF2 tornado touched down near the small community of Glenarm, Ontario about west of Fenelon Falls, and Environment Canada confirmed that the roof of a home was torn off by the tornado and a barn was destroyed. No injuries were reported in this storm.
A large, 600 yard wide F2 tornado killed one and injured two in rural Murray County. A violent F4 tornado then hit Lake Texoma State Park east of Kingston and south of Cumberland, killing two and injuring six. Another violent F4 tornado then tore directly through Calera and Durant, killing three and injuring three. Back in Texas, a F3 tornado injured one in rural Wise County and a brief, but fatal F2 tornado killed one and injured two west of Roxton. Tornado activity continued into April 3. An F3 tornado hit Bono, Arkansas early that afternoon. Later, an F2 tornado hit Future City, Urbandale, and Golden Lily, Illinois, injuring five. An F1 tornado also injured four in rural Washington County, Mississippi. April 4 saw fewer, but a return of deadly, tornado activity. Just after midnight back in Mississippi, a long-tracked F2 tornado hit Brooksville and Deerbrook, injuring four on its 40.7 mile path.
On November 4, a tornado was reported in the Romsey area in Hampshire, UK. The tornado was reported due to roofs being torn off, although the tornado was confirmed as an F0.
Until an EF5 tornado on April 27, 2011, killed 72 people, it was also the deadliest F5 tornado since the Candlestick Park tornado in 1966 killed 58 people across Mississippi and Alabama.
Over 140 patients, including at least 70 children, were treated at hospitals following the tornado. It was the deadliest U.S. tornado since the Joplin, Missouri tornado that killed 158 people in 2011.
The weather system that spawned the Bucca tornado was also responsible for an F3 tornado at Oakhurst.
A tornado in Idaho caused 3 injuries, the highest number of tornado related injuries for the state.
On February 5, 2008 a tornado killed 3 in Memphis during the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak.
An F4 tornado struck Alta, Illinois. There no casualties from this or any other tornado that day.
On May 4, 2007, Greensburg was devastated by an EF5 tornado during the May 2007 tornado outbreak.
The strongest tornado was an F3 tornado that caused $50,000 (1970 USD) in damages near Overton, Texas.
Madill was struck by another EF-2 tornado during the Tornado outbreak of April 22–23, 2020.
On August 21, 1918, 36 people died when a large tornado tore through Tyler. It was the 4th most deadly tornado in Minnesota history. On July 1, 2011, a tornado went through Tyler and no deaths or injuries resulted from the tornado. A few homes were considerably damaged.
Tornado rammed Wheely Big Cheese in the wheel, but was also flipped a couple of times. Tornado then pushed Wheely Big Cheese into a CPZ, and one of WBC's wheels broke. However, Tornado started smoking towards the end. The fight went to the judges, who declared Tornado the winner.
An F1 tornado then moved directly through Killeen, Texas, injuring one. This was followed by a strong F3 tornado that injured 17 east of East Prairie, Missouri. The next day, an F2 tornado northeast of Allsboro, Alabama injured one. March 22 then produced destructive and deadly tornado activity.
The tornado then shifted directions and moved eastwards at EF2 intensity. A state radio tower was toppled before the tornado lifted shortly thereafter. Based on damage reports, the tornado traveled a distance of .
On March 3, 2019, a tornado hit the city as part of a larger tornado outbreak."Tornado causes major damage to Eufaula airport, industrial park; no injuries reported". Eufaula Tribune. March 3, 2019.
Hockey Club Tornado Moscow Region (), often shortened to HC Tornado, Tornado Moscow Region or Tornado Dmitrov, is a women's ice hockey club in the Women's Hockey League (ZhHL). The team is based in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia, and they play at the ice rink of the Sportkompleks Dmitrov (). Tornado has claimed the Russian Championship title nine times and won the European Women's Champions Cup four times.
During the afternoon of May 22, 2004, a long-track F4 tornado formed during a tornado outbreak and tore through multiple counties in southeast Nebraska. The tornado damaged many towns along its path, but its most significant destructive effect occurred at the town of Hallam. The Hallam tornado is recognized by NOAA as the second-largest tornado on record, peaking at wide at Hallam.
In recent years there have been some particularly disastrous tornado events. During the night of February 22 and 23, 1998, an F3 tornado struck Kissimmee and killed 25 people. Later that night, another F3 tornado struck Seminole and Volusia Counties and killed 13 people (see Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak). On February 2, 2007, an EF3 tornado struck Lake County with 21 fatalities resulting – see 2007 Central Florida Tornadoes.
The Tornado outbreak of December 2000 was a destructive tornado outbreak that hit Southeastern United States from Mississippi to North Carolina on December 16, 2000. One significant tornado occurred in communities south and east of Tuscaloosa, Alabama The F4 tornado killed 11 people and injured more than 125 others. It was the strongest tornado to hit the state of Alabama in the month of December since 1950.
The 2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado was an F3 tornado that occurred on Junе 3, 2009, in Krasnozavodsk near Sergiev Posad in the Moscow region at 22.15 MST. It was the first powerful tornado in the vicinity of Moscow since the tornado of 1984. By damage registered in photo and video materials, this tornado is categorised at F2 at its rise, and at F3 at maximum stage.
The 1978 Whippoorwill tornado also known as the Whippoorwill Disaster was a tornado that struck on June 17, 1978. The tornado, which was on the ground for , struck a tourist boat called the Whippoorwill, causing it to capsize and drowning 16 out of the 58 passengers and crew. In the United States, the 1978 Whippoorwill tornado is the deadliest F1 rated tornado on the Fujita Scale.
Houses in Ringgold destroyed by an EF4 tornado On April 27, 2011, an EF4Ringgold, GA Tornado Confirmed as an EF-4 Tornado, The OKCStormWatcher Weather Blog, April 29, 2011. Retrieved April 30, 2011. tornado touched down in Ringgold and Catoosa County, leaving a path of destruction. The tornado killed twenty people along a path across Catoosa County and over the state line in Hamilton and Bradley counties.
An outbreak of nine tornadoes struck the Great Plains. The worst tornado was a wide F5 tornado that struck Fort Rice, North Dakota (although some experts like Grazulis dispute this, claiming that it was an F4 tornado). The tornado completely leveled a church and threw car parts up to . In the end, 20 of the 22 injuries and both deaths from the outbreak came from this tornado.
A series of tornadoes struck Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana. In Kansas, a brief F1 tornado touched down north-northwest of Dighton with no casualties. Later, in Illinois, an F2 tornado hit the northwest side of Lincoln, injuring three. The worst tornado was a large and extremely long- tracked F3 tornado that traveled 156.7 miles through Illinois and Indiana (although this was also likely a tornado family).
Tornado activity became much more violent going into the mid-afternoon hours. Following the previous Illinois F3 tornado, an F2 tornado moved through areas north of Boyd before striking Southern Dix, injuring two. A violent F4 tornado then tore directly through Mt. Vernon as well as Camp Ground, killing one and injuring 45. Later, an extremely violent F5 tornado obliterated Sunfield, killing one and injuring six.
At the same time the F4 tornado was down, a large, 700 yard wide F2 tornado tore through Millersville and Pocahontas, Missouri, injuring one. An F3 tornado then moved through rural Wayne and Clay Counties before striking Southern Clay City, Illinois, injuring one. Later, a destructive, F2 tornado killed three and injured one in Chaffee, Missouri. Another F2 tornado then tore through Carbondale, Illinois, injuring five.
The Wallingford Tornado was an F4 tornado that struck the town of Wallingford, Connecticut, on Friday, August 9, 1878. The violent tornado destroyed most of the town, killing about 34 people—estimated totals varied—and injuring at least 70, many severely. This was the deadliest tornado ever to strike the state of Connecticut, and the second deadliest ever in New England, after the Worcester tornado of 1953.
The 1904 Chappaqua tornado was an intense tornado that struck northern Westchester County, New York during the afternoon of Saturday, July 16, 1904. As of 2019, this tornado ranks as the strongest tornado to touch down in the county, ranking as F3 on the modern-day Fujita Scale. The tornado formed around 3:30 pm EST within a severe thunderstorm near Chappaqua, New York. The tornado quickly began to produce damage in the hamlet, destroying several structures and killing two people.
The small hamlet of Jordan was raked by the half-mile wide F5 tornado, destroying nearly everything in its wake. The parent tornado turned north-northwest before encountering outflow from a storm to its northwest and pushed the tornado to the east and a little south of east. An anticyclonic tornado (the second tornado image on post) formed to the east of the parent tornado and it went to the north following the parent storm about two miles to its east.
The tornado eventually dissipated east of Huntland. In total, this tornado killed 72 people, all in Alabama. This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since the 1955 Udall, Kansas, tornado that killed 80 people. In addition to being the deadliest, this tornado also had the longest track of any tornado in the outbreak, with its path extending across Northern Alabama and into Tennessee.
Another large and deadly tornado outbreak sequence struck the US. May 30 produced only two tornadoes, but one of them was the only violent tornado of the outbreak. The F4 tornado hit Kalamazoo, Warnerville, Nebraska, and Eastern Norfolk, killing six and injuring 23. Weaker, but more prolific tornado activity occurred on May 31 with an F2 tornado striking Onarga, Illinois, injuring two people. More tornado activity occurred on June 1, with Western North Texas receiving the brunt of the storms.
The first fatal tornado then occurred in rural Sabine Parish, Louisiana, where an F2 tornado killed one and injured six. Later a long- tracked F4 tornado, the first violent tornado of the outbreak, touched down north of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and proceeded through four mostly rural counties in Iowa with no casualties. May 1, was the most violent and the deadliest day as a tornado outbreak struck Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The tornado activity began with a violent, long-tracked .
A large tornado outbreak sequence struck the Great Plains and the Mississippi Valley with 34 of the 43 tornadoes from the outbreak occurring on November 17, although the first tornado to cause casualties happened on November 14. An F2 tornado injured one northwest of Pace, Louisiana on that day. Tornado activity on November 17 began early that morning when a brief, but strong F2 tornado touched down northwest of Curranville, Kansas. Later in Texas, another F2 tornado struck Weinert, injuring seven.
After causing severe damage in Corydon, the tornado continued towards the northeast before dissipating south of the Henderson County Airport around 5:00 pm. The tornado was on the ground for roughly 12 miles over a 17-minute span. Although four tornado sirens failed to sound when the tornado warning was issued for Corydon, no fatalities were reported as a result of the tornado. About 70 structures were damaged and six were destroyed by the tornado and two people were injured.
There were no deaths reported in the Salyersville March 2 Tornado. The Tornado was reported an EF3; There were however deaths that occurred during the Tornado that took place in West Liberty Ky. Though having their homes and businesses destroyed by the March 2nd Tornado, the people of Salyersville came together to rebuild their town. This tornado was a separate storm that formed in Wolfe County, KY, and is not the tornado that previously hit West Liberty and Wellington. Kentucky Gov.
Before the 1970s, and even now outside of North America, most tornado paths were not thoroughly surveyed to ensure that the storm was indeed a single tornado and not a series of tornadoes from the same storm (a tornado family). Often a single supercell can produce a new tornado soon after or even before the demise of an old tornado, giving the appearance to many observers that a single tornado has caused all the damage. On this list, if it is likely that the tornado was in fact two or more tornadoes, it will appear in italics.
The tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896 was a series of violent and deadly tornado outbreaks that struck much of the Central and Southern United States from May 15 to 28, 1896. It is considered one of the worst tornado outbreak sequences on record with tornado expert Tom Grazulis stating that the week of May 24–28 was "perhaps the most violent single week of tornado activity in United States history". There were four particularly notable tornado outbreaks during the two-week period. It produced three F5 tornadoes as well as the third deadliest tornado ever in United States history.
BAC and subsequently British Aerospace (BAe) would deliver 228 Tornado GR1s and 152 Tornado F3s to the RAF.
This was the first official tornado forecast, as well as the first successful tornado forecast, in recorded history.
Three deaths have been directly attributed to the Springfield tornado, the first killer tornado in Massachusetts since 1995.
An F2 tornado struck Cranston, Rhode Island becoming the first, and only, significant tornado in Rhode Island history.
According to the research compiled by meteorologist and tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis, the New Richmond Tornado was the first determined F/EF5 in American history to cause a death toll exceeding 100, as the rating for the Natchez tornado has never been officially determined"The deadliest tornado outbreaks in the United States to date". Deseret News, April 29, 2011. and the St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado ranked as only an F4. In addition, the Amite-Purvis (1908 Dixie tornado outbreak), and Gainesville (1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak), tornadoes have also both been classified as only F4 tornadoes, making the New Richmond Tornado the fifth deadliest F/EF5 in American history.
A neighborhood in Washington destroyed by the EF4 tornado. Tracking across four counties in Illinois, the EF4 tornado that caused major damage in Washington, Illinois was the strongest tornado documented in the state for the month of November since reliable records began in 1950. Up until that point, two other tornadoes in 1988 and 1991 were the strongest for that month. The first tornado warning on the storm cell that produced the tornado was issued at 16:50 UTC for portions of Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford counties, nine minutes before the tornado was estimated to have touched down. By the time the tornado had developed, the tornado warning was still in effect for those areas, and at 17:06 UTC, the Particularly Dangerous Situation wording was included into the tornado warning text.
An outbreak of tornadoes struck East Pakistan. One tornado hit Khoksa and Kumarkhali, killing 15 people. Another tornado hit Rajshahi, killing 37 people. A third tornado hit Tangail, Sirajganj, and Mymensingh, killing 32 people.
On April 7, 2006, a tornado struck the city, killing nine people and injuring 150. Volunteer State Community College sustained major damage. This tornado was part of the April 6–8, 2006 Tornado Outbreak.
An extremely destructive and deadly tornado struck the Manikganj District in central Bangladesh. The tornado affected the cities of Daulatpur and Saturia the most, moving east through Daulatpur and eventually northeast and into Saturia. In total, this tornado killed an estimated 1,300 people making it the most deadly tornado on record.
The storm was classed as a tornado by the National Weather Service on April 6. In Portland, Oregon, the tornado damaged four boat moorings and 50 small boats. Damage in Oregon from the tornado totaled up to $250,000 (1972 USD). Vancouver, Washington suffered the most significant damage from the tornado.
The tornado was later confirmed as a rare EF2 tornado. The tornado tracked for roughly and grew to a width of . At least two barns were destroyed and numerous trees were downed along its path. In eastern Quebec, an F0 tornado touched down in Quebec causing damage in the Duberger subdivision.
A tornado on April 14, 1996, rated F4 on the Fujita scale killed NFL quarterback Kurt Warner's mother-in-law and father in- law. Another EF4 tornado caused major damage to the town on February 5, 2008 in the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak, the deadliest tornado outbreak in two decades.
The twister of 2000 killed one person, and injured 100 people. This tornado followed a path roughly parallel to that of the 1974 tornado. Xenia currently has a system of tornado sirens. After the 1974 tornado outbreak, the city purchased a system of five Federal Signal Thunderbolt sirens for warning.
Later, a brief F1 tornado injured two on the east side of Duncan, Oklahoma. On April 23, an F2 tornado hit Isadora, Missouri, injuring one. Later, a large F3 tornado moved through rural Ringgold County, Iowa with no casualties. Tornado activity abruptly ramped up overnight into the morning on April 24.
Later, a large, destructive, wide F3 tornado hit Austin and Southern Pflugerville, Texas. An F2 tornado injured one northeast of Sallisaw, Oklahoma. That evening, an F3 tornado struck Wheelock, Texas, injuring seven. A destructive F2 tornado touched down in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin and moved directly through Downtown Green Bay, injuring three.
Another large, wide F3 tornado tore through Enos, Southern Kingston, and New Woodville, Oklahoma, injuring 10. The worst tornado then touched down, becoming a violent, wide F4 tornado that obliterated Aquilla, Vaughan, and Southern Hillsboro, Texas, killing six and injuring 31. An F3 tornado then caused major damage in Paris, Arkansas.
Another F1 tornado struck east-southeast of Galloway in the southwestern suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. The final tornado was a large, .25 mile wide F1 tornado near Salesville, Texas. Overall, the five tornadoes killed two.
The Great Natchez Tornado hit Natchez, Mississippi on Thursday, May 7, 1840. This tornado was the second deadliest tornado in United States history; at least 317 people were killed and at least 109 were injured.
Later, that same supercell quickly produced another tornado – this was a large wedge tornado that hit the Hattiesburg area.
At the time, it was the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since the 1955 Udall, Kansas, tornado.
An F4 tornado in Arkansas killed five people. A second F4 tornado in the state killed two more people.
There were four reported tornadoes, including an F1 tornado in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. This tornado caused minor damage.
For example, the tornado frequency of Southwestern Ontario is about half that of the most tornado-prone areas of the central US plains. The last multiple tornado- related deaths in Canada were caused by a tornado in Ear Falls, Ontario on 9 July 2009, where 3 died, and the last killer tornado was on 3 August 2018 in Alonsa, Manitoba. The two deadliest tornadoes on Canadian soil were the Regina Cyclone of 30 June 1912 (28 fatalities) and the Edmonton Tornado of 31 July 1987 (27 fatalities).
The tornado continued through western portions of Georgia, striking Talbotton at EF3 strength and causing major damage in that town before dissipating. In addition to the 23 fatalities, 97 people were injured by the tornado. The Beauregard tornado ended the record-long 673-day streak without a violent (EF4 or EF5) tornado in the United States since the last one touched down near Canton, Texas on April 29, 2017. It was also the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since the 2013 Moore tornado.
The 1925 Miami tornado was an intense tornado that struck Dade County, Florida, on April 5, 1925. It remains the deadliest tornado to affect the South Florida county, and it is estimated to have been the most intense tornado to strike the Miami area. The tornado caused five deaths and produced damage totals that were estimated near $200–300,000 (1925 USD). 35 people were also hospitalized because of injuries.
One person died and 59 people were injured. The series of events that occurred as the tornado moved past the Hesston area were most interesting. Eyewitness accounts observed the touchdown of an additional tornado just to the north. This is consistent with models of what is known as a "tornado handoff", in which an old mesocyclone and tornado occlude as a new mesocyclone and tornado further downwind becomes dominant.
After the Stanton tornado lifted, a new tornado touched down southwest of Pilger. The tornado was initially weak, damaging trees, power poles, and outbuildings. The tornado intensified as it approached town, and barns and outbuildings were leveled or swept away at EF2 intensity. The tornado further intensified to a violent EF4 as it struck Pilger directly, killing one person, injuring many others, and damaging or destroying most structures in town.
The 1985 United States – Canada tornado outbreak, referred to as the Barrie tornado outbreak in Canada, was a major tornado outbreak that occurred in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, on May 31, 1985. 44 tornadoes were counted including 14 in Ontario, Canada. It is the largest and most intense tornado outbreak ever to hit this region, and the worst tornado outbreak in Pennsylvania history in terms of deaths and destruction.
The sole fatality that occurred during the tornado was the first tornado-related fatality to occur in 1997, and the first in Tuscaloosa since the 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak killed 37 people in the area. The December 2000 Tuscaloosa tornado, which occurred almost three years later, would follow a similar path to the 1997 twister. The 2000 tornado was rated at F4 intensity and killed 11 people.
A house on Springhill Avenue destroyed in the Christmas Day 2012 tornado In late December 2012, the city suffered two tornado hits. On December 25, 2012, at 4:54 pm, a large wedge tornado touched down in the city. The tornado rapidly intensified as it moved north-northeast at speeds of up to . The path took the tornado into Midtown, causing damage or destruction to at least 100 structures.
An additional F3 tornado caused more damage in Galveston just under three hours later. Another F3 tornado caused damage in Hardin, Texas before a large, deadly, wide F3 tornado killed five and injured 37 when it passed through Jonesboro and Hodge, Louisiana. Another F3 tornado caused damage in Fulbright, Texas. The final tornado of the outbreak occurred the next day in Latex, Texas, causing F2 damage and injuring two.
On April 7, four people were injured by an F2 tornado south of Avoca, Wisconsin. The worst tornado of the outbreak then occurred: a long-tracked F3 tornado tore through Saunemin, Limestone, and Bourbonnais, Illinois, killing one and injuring 13. The final tornado of outbreak was a brief, but strong F2 tornado that injured two in Swartz Creek, Michigan. In all, the tornadoes killed one and injured 22.
Students participate in a tornado drill, lining up along an interior wall and covering their heads. Tornado drills are an important element in tornado preparedness. Like any other safety drills, they increase chances of correct response to a real tornado threat. Most states in the midwestern and southern United States conduct a statewide tornado drill in late winter or early spring in preparation for the severe weather season.
It was considered the most- photographed tornado of the outbreak. This tornado dissipated west of White Oak, but the same thunderstorm activity was responsible for two other tornado touchdowns in the Lebanon and Mason areas. The Mason tornado, which started in the northern Cincinnati subdivisions of Arlington Heights and Elmwood Place, was rated F4 and took two lives, while the Warren County tornado was rated an F2 and injured 10.
Damage estimates of $1.504 billion made this the 6th costliest tornado in US history. Later, another EF2 tornado caused heavy damage Clarkrange, Tennessee. The deadliest tornado of the outbreak occurred in Putnam County, where a violent EF4 tornado touched down near Baxter shortly before 2:00 a.m. and moved into western Cookeville.
The tornado traveled towards the northeast, damaging two mobile homes and a chapel. Several outbuildings were also damaged or destroyed near a farm before the tornado dissipated. The tornado was rated as an EF1 along its track. No injuries were reported as a result of the tornado and damages amounted to $50,000.
In Justice League of America Vol. 1, #193 (August 1981), Aquaman discovers Morrow's hideout and is nearly killed when Morrow uses his alien sceptre. Morrow attempts to dissect Red Tornado to discover the outside influence, and releases Tornado Champion-Tornado Tyrant in the android shell. Tornado Tyrant defeats the JLA, except for Firestorm.
Later, an F3 tornado struck Wolf Creek, injuring two. An F3 tornado, then moved right through Great Bend, injuring one. The final tornado of the outbreak occurred on October 30, when an isolated and brief F1 tornado touched down southwest of Morrison, Oklahoma with no casualties. Overall, the damaging outbreak injured seven.
Tornado activity continued into Oklahoma, where the worst tornado of the outbreak touched down. It was a half- mile wide F4 tornado that moved through areas west of Cookietown and Geronimo before striking Southern Lawton, killing four and injuring five. Fortunately, it was the last tornado to cause casualties. A long-tracked .
The tornado exited Camp Atterbury and crossed US 31, entering the town of Edinburgh. Several buildings and countless trees and power lines were damaged as the tornado moved roughly parallel with Indiana 252. The tornado lifted near Interstate 65. The National Weather Service rated this damaging event as an EF-2 tornado.
The Pine Lake tornado was a deadly tornado in central Alberta which occurred on Friday, July 14, 2000 and struck a campground and a trailer park. Twelve people were killed, making it the first deadly tornado in Canada since 1987, when an F4 tornado killed 27 people in Edmonton, Alberta and injured 300+.
Seven people were killed and 100 injured by an F4 tornado in Catoosa, Oklahoma. Those seven fatalities were the most by any one tornado in 1993. The tornado damaged or destroyed 75% of the town's businesses.
Several houses were destroyed near Lafayette, Louisiana, possibly by a tornado. Near Longview, Texas an EF-2 tornado left a path of destruction nearly one mile long. Another tornado near Lufkin, Texas produced EF-3 damage.
Most of the damage was caused by three tornadoes: an F4 tornado that hit the town of Comfrey, Minnesota, an F3 tornado that struck St. Peter, Minnesota, and an F2 tornado that hit Le Center, Minnesota.
The 1993 Virginia tornado outbreak was a tornado outbreak that occurred in the Southeastern United States on August 6, 1993. It was very rare in that most tornado outbreaks in this region occur in the spring.
An F4 tornado killed seven people in Stone and Izard Counties in Arkansas. The seven fatalities from this tornado were the most by one tornado in 1996. Among the fatalities were Quarterback Kurt Warner's In-Laws.
Another F3 tornado injured three in Marion, Alabama. The final significant tornado occurred early on December 12 when an F2 tornado caused considerable damage in rural Sumter County, Alabama. In the end, the outbreak injured six.
Two weak tornadoes struck Oregon. The first was an F1 tornado near Sandy. The F0 tornado then tracked an unusually long 16.2 miles through rural Gilliam and Morrow Counties. There were no casualties with either tornado.
The Jam included Leon Russell, Joan Jett and The Crickets. The first Tornado Jam was fundraiser to help Lubbock, Texas after the Tornado, thus the name. The second Annual Tornado Jam had a crowd of 35,000.
In Poland, a tornado touched down in Wiktorów and Borzęcin near Warsaw. 21 houses were damaged. One 36-old man was lifted by tornado. An F2 tornado struck Jelonka and Kleszczele near Dubicze Cerkiewne, Podlaskie Voivodeship.
This day was the most extensive tornado event on record at the time, and was the most severe tornado outbreak in early New England history, on par only with the September 1821 New England tornado outbreak.
A second large scale tornado struck grant park April 7th, killing 3, and injuring 8. Extensive damage to homes and livestock was done. this tornado is considered the worst tornado in the history of Kankakee County.
On April 27, an F4 tornado tracked across Springfield, Tennessee, killing three people. An additional F0 tornado occurred in California.
Johns also introduced the enhanced wording "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) to tornado watches for the 2 April 1982 tornado outbreak.
An EF2 tornado passed through Coal City damaging a number of homes during the tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013.
It is one of the classic hallmarks of tornado-producing supercells. The National Weather Service may consider the presence of a hook echo coinciding with a tornado vortex signature as sufficient to justify issuing a tornado warning.
The tornado remains the only tornado to cause multiple fatalities in Dade County. While officially unrated, it is estimated that the tornado likely produced F3-level damage based on photographs taken after the passage of the supercell.
The Tushka, Oklahoma tornado. During the afternoon of April 14, a significant tornado outbreak started setting up. A PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) tornado watch was issued for much of eastern Oklahoma. Supercells explosively developed over central Oklahoma.
Two tornadoes touched down in Hawaii. This first tornado, which was rated F1, struck Wahiawa, damaging few buildings. The other tornado was an even stronger F2 tornado that struck several buildings north of Kailua- Kona, injuring four.
The 2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado was an extremely violent and long- tracked EF5 wedge tornado that devastated several towns in rural northern Alabama, before tearing through the northern suburbs of Huntsville and causing damage in rural portions of southern Tennessee on the afternoon and early evening of April 27, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado of the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. The tornado reached a maximum width of and was estimated to have had peak winds of . The tornado killed 72 people, making it the deadliest tornado in Alabama history, and injured at least 145 others.
Early on August 10, a strong tornado (a rarity in mid-summer in Oklahoma) hit near Locust Grove, Oklahoma embedded in a larger thunderstorm complex. The tornado destroyed a mobile home killing one person (the first killer tornado since June 1 in the US) and injuring two others. The tornado was rated as an EF2.
On September 16, 2006, an F2 tornado damaged homes in Rogers, killing one person. The tornado began three miles west of Rogers at 9:52 p.m. The tornado made its first strike on Rogers at 9:54 p.m. The tornado traveled along a path that was eight miles, and lasted for approximately 12 minutes.
On April 26, 2011, a tornado--part of the 2011 Super Outbreak--traveled from Elaine, Arkansas, to Lula. The tornado was rated EF0, with estimated wind speeds of . The tornado's path of destruction was wide and the tornado travelled a path of along Highway 61. The tornado ripped the roof off a church near Lula.
A tornado outbreak in January produced 16 tornadoes in the Deep South. Damage from the tornadoes totaled around $16.771 million and 43 people were injured. An F2 tornado struck Tuscaloosa, Alabama on January 24, resulting in the first tornado fatality of the year. The tornado also injured 10 others and damaged up to 100 structures.
The tornado also damaged the Chapel Hill Kroger grocery store and threw a heavy air conditioning unit onto cars below. There was only one injury reported from the storm. Another tornado touched down in Douglas County on May 11, 2008, known as the "Mother's Day Tornado". The EF2 tornado caused damage all over the county.
Several strong tornado touched down on the Southeastern United States. An F2 tornado caused widespread damage in Greeneville, Tennessee. A mother was killed and five children were injured in a small house that the tornado destroyed. An F3 tornado with twin funnels destroyed several homes and a church in Pleasant View, Kentucky, injuring five people.
The F1 tornado moved right through the tiny town of Belfast, Tennessee, killing three and injuring 166, the most injuries ever recorded in an F1/EF1 tornado. The second worst tornado came next: a violent F4 tornado struck Downtown Fayetteville, Tennessee, killing two and injuring 150. Overall, the outbreak killed five and injured 336.
Another F3 tornado moved through rural Rice County in between Raymond and Alden. The next day, a mile-wide F1 tornado struck the north side of Florence, Texas. An F2 tornado then hit the south side of Encinal, Texas. Later, the final F2 tornado briefly touched down right in the center of Weimar, Texas.
If tornado activity indeed resumes after such a lull, many definitions consider the event to be a new outbreak. A series of continuous or nearly continuous tornado outbreak days is a tornado outbreak sequence. Tornado outbreaks usually occur from March through June in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada, the Midwestern United States, and the Southeastern United States in an area colloquially referred to as Tornado Alley. Tornado outbreaks do occur during other times of the year and in other parts of the world, however.
A strong tornado stuck the city of Vallà, a town near Riese Pio X in the province of Treviso. It was classified as an EF3 T6 tornado, but in some area of the city the tornado may have reached EF3-EF4 damage with some buildings razed to the ground. The tornado travelled for about 10 km and injured 28 people. In the same day a tornado touches down near Vercelli and an F2-F3 tornado stuck the province of Pordenone, with some truck lifted off the ground, one of which thrown against a building.
According to Russian researchers writing in the 1980s, this tornado was either the same as the Ivanovo tornado or a member of the Ivanovo tornado family; if the latter, it may indicate that the Ivanovo tornado was in fact two separate tornadoes spawned by the same thunderstorm. However, recent research indicates that the Ivanovo storm was not the same as the one that produced the Kostroma tornado. Numerous trees were thrown long distances by the tornado. A crane weighing was knocked over, and numerous other structures were damaged.
The most significant tornado outbreak of 1967 struck the Midwestern United States, killing 58 people, all in Illinois, and injuring 1,118. The deadliest tornado of the outbreak was an F4 tornado that devastated the south side of Chicago and surrounding suburbs, killing 33 and injuring 500. The worst damage from this tornado was in Oak Lawn and Hometown, where many buildings were leveled. As the tornado struck during the Friday evening rush hour, many of the deaths were in cars that the tornado picked up and tossed at red traffic lights.
After that, another long-tracked F2 tornado hit areas north of Eufaula, Alabama before striking Lumpkin and Ellaville, Georgia, killing one and injuring 35 along its 71.5 mile path. Later, an F2 tornado moved directly through Buena Vista, Georgia, injuring seven. An F1 tornado east of Talbotton, Georgia injured six while another F1 tornado north of Youngblood, Alabama injured two. The final tornado of the outbreak was a short-lived, but strong F2 tornado that struck areas northeast of East Point, Georgia in the southwestern suburbs of Atlanta, killing one and injuring 40.
A destructive F2 tornado moved through Clarksdale and Lyon, Mississippi, also injuring one. The final tornado caused heavy F2 damage in Collierville, Tennessee, an east-southeastern suburb of Memphis. That evening, yet another brief, but surprisingly deadly F0 tornado killed one and injured two southwest Boykin, Georgia, the third F0 tornado in 1955 to cause fatalities in the US and the second to happen in Georgia. The final tornado of the outbreak occurred the next day, when a brief, but strong F2 tornado occurred southeast of Longboat Key, Florida.
Visibility was clear and witnesses reported seeing the tornado from as far as 25 miles away. The tornado was reported to have been on a direct track for the City of Gruver, but veered away and spared the town from its effects. In spite of the size of the tornado, damage was minor; total property damage from the tornado was put at $15,000. However, the tornado was accompanied by 1- to 2-inch hail that did significant damage to the wheat crops near the path of the tornado.
Initially, the tornado was thought to have still been on the ground and a third bulletin was released at 3:34 am EST (0834 UTC). At this time, Doppler radar indicated that a tornado was forming or was on the ground roughly north of Umatilla. The mesocyclone that produced the first tornado restrengthened and formed another tornado near Paisley at 3:37 am EST (0837 UTC) in Lake County. A second tornado warning was issued at 3:52 am EST (0852 UTC) for Volusia County as the tornado was tracking toward the area.
Damage from the EF3 Magee, Mississippi tornado Damage from the EF3 Corydon, Kentucky tornado Several days of severe weather began with an EF1 tornado near Meridian, Mississippi on March 25. During the early morning hours of March 26, severe thunderstorms produced six tornadoes in central sections of Mississippi. The most powerful tornado spawned was an EF3 that struck Magee. Sixty homes were either damaged or destroyed with 25 people injured from the tornado.
The Teton–Yellowstone tornado was a rare high-altitude tornado which occurred on July 21, 1987 in the U.S. State of Wyoming. Rated at F4 on the Fujita scale, it was the strongest tornado ever recorded in the state. It was also the only recorded F4 tornado in Wyoming history. The tornado cut through a long, wide swath of the Teton Wilderness and Yellowstone National Park, and even crossed the Continental Divide.
In 2003, Amelia Day was cancelled after the courthouse green was struck by an F1 tornado on Friday, May 8, the day before the festival. This tornado destroyed most of the trees on the green. A small Virginia tornado alley exists in Central Virginia and Amelia County has had numerous tornado touchdowns. Tornadoes of note include the April 30, 1924, tornado that passed east of the courthouse area, killing one person and injuring seven others.
The second tornado of the day was a long-tracked tornado that was probably a family of up to five tornadoes. The tornado, or the first member of its family, touched down near Trailtown at about 7:49 a.m., though it may have formed farther southwest in the Everglades, as one person reportedly sighted a tornado as early as 7:30 a.m. Upon touching down, the tornado damaged two bungalows owned by Seminole Indians.
Several trees were felled in Polk County (as the tornado had weakened to EF1-strength), before the tornado crossed into McMinn County. The tornado re-strengthened to an EF2 and destroyed two houses and a mobile home before lifting south of Athens. The tornado killed 20 people and injured hundreds more along its path across Catoosa, Hamilton, Bradley, Polk and McMinn counties. The tornado was given a rating of EF4 with winds ranging from .
A small two-day outbreak struck in Early- March. The first tornado was a long–tracked F0 tornado that passed Lincoln, Kansas. The other tornado that day, an F2 tornado, carved a 25–mile–long path across Southern Kansas, causing at least $5,000,000 (1970 USD) in damages. Tornado activity continued into the next day when the system took a south- southeastern turn, causing at least seven tornadoes across Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Students participate in a tornado drill, lining up along an interior wall and covering their heads. Tornado drills(also known as severe weather drills) are an important element in tornado preparedness. Like any other safety drills, they increase chances of correct response to a real tornado threat. Most states in the midwestern and southern United States conduct a statewide tornado drill in late winter or early spring in preparation for the severe weather season.
An outbreak produced at least 9 tornadoes across central and southern Florida. An F2 tornado or tornado family that touched down near Naples knocked down a tower, destroyed a hunting camp, can killed 2 people at a farm labor camp. Another F2 tornado destroyed 2 small homes and damaged 20 in Venice, injuring 2 people. an F1 tornado or tornado family started in Tampa and traveled to near Orlando, injuring 3 people.
Another person was injured by another F2 tornado Mineral Springs. Later, a half-mile wide F3 tornado hit Friendship, Midway, Western Abco, Western Malvern, and Southern Rockport. A catstrophic F3 tornado struck Conway, Wooster, Republican, and Twin Groves, killing one and injuring 18. Later, an F2 tornado injured one south of Oxford. May 14 saw a brief, but strong F2 tornado injure three just east of Wooster, Ohio on the western side of Honeytown.
This tornado impacted rural areas between New Lowell and Edenvale. The second tornado touched down near Moonstone, while the third cut a wide, long path through the town of Gravenhurst, both of them rated F0. The final tornado of this family, an F1, touched down at Ril Lake. To the north of there, an F0 tornado affected Dollars Lake, to the northeast of Britt, while another F1 tornado hit at Arnstein near North Bay.
On March 3, a supercell produced an extremely violent, exceptionally long- tracked F5 tornado that devastated parts of Jackson, Mississippi and Alabama. The tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park Tornado (after the shopping center it leveled) killed 58 people and injured over 500 along its 202.5 mile long track. The same supercell that produced the Candlestick Park Tornado also spawned two short lived F1 tornadoes with an additional F1 tornado occurring the next day.
A confirmed EF3 tornado passed through Coal City during the outbreak of storms and tornadoes on Monday, June 22, 2015. The tornado touched down near Morris, Illinois, before entering Coal City, damaging and destroying a number of homes and businesses. According to the National Weather Service, winds reached 160 miles per hour as the tornado touched down, making it the most powerful tornado to hit the region since the Plainfield, IL tornado in August 1990.
The tornado traveled , was wide, and was posthumously rated F3. Six people were injured and losses totaled $250,000. The tornado may have traveled slightly farther than indicated as more damage was reported downwind after the tornado supposedly dissipated.
On June 9, a tornado swept through the Southern Perth suburb of Rockingham. The tornado had winds of . The State Emergency Service responded to more than 200 calls for help and the tornado damaged more than 130 homes.
An F1 tornado impacted Throckmorton, injuring four. An F2 tornado then injured one in Olney. Stronger tornadoes then began to impact Oklahoma. A long-tracked F3 tornado impacted Loveland and Walters, injuring four on its 65.8 mile path.
Hoyle, Craig. "UK retires last Tornado F3 fighters." Flight International, 22 March 2011. In addition to the RAF's Tornado F3s, in 2007, QinetiQ leased four Tornado F3s from the MOD for the purpose of conducting weapons testing activities.
A tornado warning was not issued for the storm until the tornado had already been on the ground for eight minutes.
An F2 tornado hit Casper, Wyoming and caused $250,000 in damage, making it the most destructive tornado to hit the city.
It was the first killer tornado in New England since 1995 and the first killer tornado in New Hampshire since 1946.
The tornado occurred at 7:30 p.m. (CST) killing 8Jackson, Ron. - "Survivors of Lone Grove tornado express shock, thanks". - The Oklahoman.
An F3 tornado struck Elyria, Nebraska, killing one and injuring two. A brief, but damaging F1 tornado also hit Scotia, Nebraska.
The Elrod Bridge was completely destroyed by an F-4 tornado that moved through Fulton county during a 1995 tornado outbreak.
EF5 damage from the April 2011 tornado On April 27, 2011, the town suffered extensive damage from a very large and swift-moving tornado. The tornado was rated EF5 with estimated winds of 210 mph. The tornado damaged many buildings in and around the main part of town. Twenty-seven people in Phil Campbell died in the event.
On March 2, 2012, during the tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012, Harvest suffered yet another direct hit from a damaging tornado, this one rated EF3. The tornado hit exactly the same area as the April 27, 2011 tornado, though no fatalities occurred this time. Some of the houses being rebuilt from that outbreak were destroyed again.
The Manila tornado occurred on 4:30 pm Philippine Time on August 14, 2016. This was only the second time in recorded history that a tornado struck Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The tornado affected in the cities of Manila and Quezon City. The most destructive impact of the tornado was in the southern part of Metro Manila.
The boxcars were thrown and torn apart by the tornado. Several other fatalities occurred near Richton before the tornado dissipated. At least 770 people were injured along the entire path, though the real total was likely higher, perhaps significantly so, as many minor injuries were probably ignored—an omission still common in contemporary tornado disasters.Grazulis, The Tornado, p.
Four other people were injured as a result of the tornado and damages amounted to $1.2 million. About 100 people were also displaced due to the tornado. The tornado was rated as a low-end EF3 along its discontinuous track. The final tornado of the outbreak touched down near U.S. Route 64 around 4:30 a.m. EST.
A carport near the home was blown down and twisted into nearby trees. No injuries were reported as a result of the tornado and damages amounted to $25,000. The tornado was rated as an EF0 by the National Weather Service. A home destroyed by the Kenly tornado The fourth tornado of the outbreak touched down around 2:45 a.m.
A tornado over Minnetonka, Minnesota on May 6, 1965.The Twin Cities metropolitan area lies near the northern edge of Tornado Alley, and as such the region experiences tornadoes almost annually. The first recorded tornado observed in the Twin Cities metro area was in 1820 at Fort Snelling. A destructive tornado struck St. Paul in 1891.
On May 8th, an F5 tornado tore through the town of Gregory, South Dakota, and became the only tornado to be rated as such in South Dakota's history. On the ground for around 30 miles, the tornado reached a mile wide and destroyed 7 farms, 3 of which were swept away. Fortunately, the tornado resulted in no deaths.
Students participate in a tornado drill, lining up along an interior wall and covering their heads. Tornado drills are an important element in tornado preparedness. Similar to other evidence based safety drills, they teach effective countermeasures and therefore increase survival rates if/when a tornado hits. Ducking and covering does have certain applications in other, more natural disasters.
The small town of Codell, Kansas, was hit by a tornado on the same date (May 20) three consecutive years: 1916, 1917, and 1918.Fun Tornado Facts – Interesting and Fun Tornado Facts The United States has about 100,000 thunderstorms per year; less than 1% produce a tornado. The odds of this coincidence occurring again are extremely small.
The first touched down around 8:25 (CDT) near Center Hill. This tornado destroyed at least nine houses and injured one person. The second tornado was short lived and touched down near the town of Steprock. The final tornado to touchdown in Arkansas touched down in Saline County near the town of Congo; this tornado was rated EF1.
Shortly after the St. Peter tornado dissipated, a new tornado formed at 5:48 pm north of Cleveland, Minnesota. The half-mile (.8 km) wide tornado damaged several farms before hitting Le Center at F2 strength. The tornado damaged many businesses on the southern side of town and caused heavy damage at the Le Sueur County fairgrounds.
The Tornado Intercept Vehicle 1 (TIV 1) and Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV 2) are vehicles used to film with an IMAX camera from very close to or within a tornado. They were designed by film director Sean Casey. On May 27, 2013, the TIV2 filmed the inside of a tornado in Kansas with Casey inside.
Destructive tornado activity then continued into the nighttime hours. An F2 tornado hit Tipton Ford, Missouri, injuring six. Later, a fatal F2 tornado struck Northeastern Elijah, Pottersville, and Northwestern West Plains, Missouri, killing one and injuring 11. At the same time, a massive, wide F2 tornado injured when it passed the southeast sides of Witt Springs and Marshall, Arkansas.
Six tornadoes touched down across five states. On June 8, an F2 tornado caused an injury in Rahns, Pennsylvania. The next day, a catastrophic F3 tornado passed through Crystal, Kentucky east of Pryse, killing one and injuring 63. The final tornado of the period was another strong F3 tornado that caused significant damage in Brooklyn Park, Maryland.
Canada's first Fujita Scale F5 tornado approaching Elie Southern parts of the province, located just north of Tornado Alley, experience tornadoes each year, with 15 confirmed touchdowns in 2006. In 2007, on June 22 and June 23, numerous tornadoes touched down, including an F5 Tornado that devastated parts of Elie (the strongest officially recorded tornado in Canada).
Another outbreak of deadly tornadoes struck areas from the Great Plains to the Southeast. On May 24, a F1 tornado killed one person west of O'Brien, Texas. The next day another person was killed by an F3 tornado south of Clay Center, Kansas. The deadliest tornado came on May 26, when an F1 tornado struck Carrabelle, Florida, killing three.
An outbreak of six tornadoes hit Nebraska and Kansas. The strongest tornado was an F4 tornado that hit Pleasanton, Nebraska, although there were no casualties. However, an F2 tornado passed west of Geneva and east of Strang, while moving through rural Fillmore County, Nebraska, injuring three. Another F2 tornado southwest of both Denton and Lincoln, Nebraska then injured one.
Later, a large F2 tornado hit Monticello injuring two. In Illinois, an F3 tornado struck Alto Pass and Makanda before another F3 tornado impacted Good Hope. The final tornado to cause casualties was a brief, but strong F2 storm that then injured two in rural Warrick County, Indiana. In the end, 11 states saw tornadoes in this outbreak sequence.
A damaging outbreak of 22 tornadoes struck the Great Plains, Great Lakes, and New England. The first tornado of the outbreak was a weak F1 tornado that hit Panama, Nebraska. Another F1 tornado caused major damage in Oakwood, Illinois. The next day, the first F2 tornado of the outbreak briefly touched down northwest of Watson, Kansas.
Later, a long-tracked F2 tornado struck Bennington, Maple Grove, and West Salem, Illinois, injuring two. Later in Massachusetts, an F2 tornado hit Millers Falls. Another F2 tornado hit areas northwest of Bedford. The worst tornado, which was also rated F2, then touched down in Western Cincinnati before crossing the Ohio River and striking Ludlow, Kentucky, injuring eight.
An outbreak of 14 tornadoes struck the Great Plains and the Southeast. The first strong tornado of the outbreak occurred in Oklahoma, where an F2 tornado moved through the city of Ardmore. Later, another F2 tornado struck Weatherford and Dead Women Crossing. A brief, but strong F2 tornado then caused significant damage in rural Muskogee County.
Wakita was featured in the 1996 blockbuster film Twister in which the town was destroyed by an F4 tornado that was part of a storm system later spawning an F5 tornado. False fronts were built onto the existing store fronts for pre-tornado shots and then were removed and replaced with rubble in the streets for post-tornado shots.
Beyond this point, the tornado briefly strengthened back to EF2 intensity and ripped the roof off of a house. The tornado then entered Holliday Lake State Park, snapping and uprooting many additional trees at EF1 strength before lifting and dissipating. Seven people were injured, and the tornado was the first February F3/EF3 tornado in Virginia since 1950.
An outbreak of eight tornadoes affected Kansas with an additional tornado occurring in Iowa. It started in Kansas, when an F1 tornado caused minor damage northwest of Spearville. Later, an F3 tornado slammed Southern Concordia, injuring two. Another damaging F2 tornado then moved through Witchita suburbs, striking Southeastern Mulvane, Southeastern Rose Hill, and Southern Augusta, injuring two.
Methodist church destroyed in the 2004 tornado On May 21, 2004, a tornado rated F2 struck the town of Bradgate causing widespread damage. The National Weather Service reported that a tornado struck near Rolfe at 6:10 p.m. and hit Bradgate at 6:23 p.m. The tornado severely damaged 30 of the 42 homes in Bradgate.
There were no serious injuries. Union president David Dockery stated that the February 5, 2008 tornado was about 15 times as bad at the 2002 tornado. The damage caused by the February 5th tornado was estimated at $40 million.
An F2 tornado in Maryland touched down in St. Mary's County (near Hollywood) and tracked through Calvert County, dissipating near Broomes Island. It was the only significant tornado to hit St. Mary's County since tornado records began in 1950.
After axing Firestorm, Shunt axed Tornado, nearly hitting the receiver. Firestorm flipped Tornado over. Tornado's scoop was now upside down and ineffective, until Firestorm flipped them again. Tornado then got under Firestorm and slammed them into the Pit Button.
On promotion to Group Captain, he was posted to Headquarters 1 Group, Strike Command, as Group Captain Tornado where he was responsible for all operational, training and second customer issues for the Tornado F3, Tornado GR4 and Hawk aircraft.
The 1987 Saragosa, Texas tornado was a deadly tornado that hit the community of Saragosa in Reeves County, Texas on May 22, 1987. The tornado destroyed much of the town, killing at least 30 and injuring over 100 people.
The final three tornadoes of 1961 struck the Southeast. On November 17, an F1 tornado hit Tuckers Crossing, Mississippi. Next, an F2 tornado injured one southeast of Marion, Alabama. The next morning, the final F2 tornado damaged Valdosta, Georgia.
This tornado was first spotted in Newcastle. It touched the ground for 39 minutes, crossing through a heavily populated section of Moore. Winds with this tornado peaked at . Twenty-three fatalities and 377 injuries were caused by the tornado.
There has long been uncertainty as to whether the originally recognized reports of a path over 3.5 hours represent a single continuous tornado or multiple independently tracking tornadoes belonging to a tornado family. Because of the scarcity of verifiable meteorological data from the time of the event and the apparent absence of any record of a tornado having approached this path length and duration in the years since, doubts have been raised about the plausibility of the conclusion that a single tornado was responsible for them. Modern meteorological theory regarding tornado and supercell morphology and dynamics suggests that a single tornado lasting for such a duration is highly improbable. Several other historical accounts of very long track (VLT) tornadoes have subsequently been determined to be the product of tornado families (notably the Charleston-Mattoon, Illinois tornado family of May 1917 and the Woodward, Oklahoma tornado family of April 1947).
A tornado caused fatalities in Selma, Alabama while an F4 tornado struck LaPlace, Louisiana resulting in at least 25 people were injured.
One F4 tornado struck Linden in Perry County, killing three people, while an F2 tornado struck Gallatin in Sumner County injuring 17.
60163 Tornado In addition to the preserved engines above, a new build Peppercorn Class A1, 60163 Tornado was completed in August 2008.
A Fujita scale F5 tornado struck Elie (just west of Winnipeg) in 2007; this was the strongest tornado ever recorded in Canada.
An F1 tornado in Iowa was followed by a long-tracked, violent F4 tornado that killed four and injured 76 in Texas.
The only tornado on this list to occur during the 21st century is the Joplin tornado, which occurred on May 22, 2011.
A brief landspout tornado also touched down in Arkansas and was rated an EF0. Another brief EF0 tornado touched down in Texas.
The town of Lowell may have been impacted by a tornado. Nonetheless, a tornado warning was issued for part of the state.
Fourth is Arkansas (336) and fifth is Tennessee with 271 fatalities. Tornado disasters to affect the southern USA include the Great Natchez Tornado of May 1840 – second deadliest on record in the US, behind only the Tri-State Tornado. Other outbreaks included the Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak of April 1936, the 1908 Southeast tornado outbreak of April 1908 and the Candlestick Park Tornado of 1966. Alabama and Kentucky were very badly affected by the Super Outbreak of 1974. The 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak was the deadliest tornado outbreak in the US in 23 years. 58 people lost their lives with Tennessee, Arkansas, and Kentucky particularly badly affected. The 2011 Super Outbreak devastated much of the South, leaving 348 people dead. Hurricanes and other tropical storms can also generate tornadoes.
Tornado at the National Railway Museum in York, 14 December 2008 Tornado left hand nameplate at York station in May 2009 showing the badge of RAF Leeming in Yorkshire, where RAF Tornado F3s were based until the previous month Tornado right hand nameplate showing the badge of RAF Cottesmore, Rutland Running number and plaque, "No. 2195 Darlington 2008" Plate recording the naming ceremony for 60163 Tornado The name Tornado was chosen in honour of the Royal Air Force Tornado air crews flying at the time in the Gulf War. The honour of choosing the name was given to a £50,000 sponsor of the project. In 1995, officers of the Royal Air Force presented the Tornado nameplates to the trust at Tyseley Locomotive Works at the frame laying ceremony in January.
Parent article: List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in the Southern Hemisphere including Oceania, and, for the purposes of this list, all of South America and Africa.
Three people were injured and losses totaled $15 million. Despite the heavy damage, tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis gave the tornado an F2 rating. It is also possible that the tornado started in McLean County while never crossing into Grayson County.
A tornado struck Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) resulting in roof damage and vehicle damage. There was one injury in the second tornado in five months to strike eastern Northern Ireland. The tornado of Carrickfergus was ranked as T2/F1 event.
Tornado focused on ramming Kater Killer, and also rammed the House Robot Shunt. After being attacked by both Gemini and Tornado, Kater Killer became immobilised. Tornado drove into the pit at the end, but it had already qualified with Gemini.
The tornado moved northeast past La Paz and Lakeville where it damaged LaVille Jr.-Sr. High School, which was under construction. The tornado continued into Wyatt and destroyed twenty homes. Another tornado formed near the St. Joseph County–Elkhart County border.
The tornado reached F3 intensity along its path. The tornado was the first intense tornado to impact the Moscow region in nearly 25 years. Upwards of of rain fell throughout the impacted regions. This is roughly half the monthly rainfall average.
In raw numbers, the Joplin tornado of May 22, 2011 is considered the costliest tornado in recent history, with damage totals near $3.18 billion (2019 USD). Until 2011, the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado of May 3, 1999 was the most damaging.
The 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak of March 28, 1984, was the most destructive tornado outbreak to sweep through the two states since the Enigma tornado outbreak struck 100 years and 1 month earlier, according to NOAA and NCDC public records.
Another F3 tornado hit Webb City, Oklahoma before yet another F3 tornado injured nine when it briefly touched down in rural Titus County, Texas. An F2 tornado also injured six in Stuttgart, Arkansas. In all, March 26 produced 27 tornadnes.
Another F2 tornado then injured two on the southeast sides of Errata and Sandersville that afternoon. Later, an F3 tornado caused severe damage in De Soto. In Alabama, an F1 tornado struck the towns of Forkland, Sawyerville, and Havana, injuring five.
A wide F3 tornado passed through Grenola, Kansas, causing major damage. Later, an F2 tornado caused major damage in rural Leavenworth County. Another damaging F2 tornado occurred just northeast of Pomona. Just before noon, tornadoes began to touch down in Missouri.
Many trees were downed along the path. At least ten other people were injured. Tornado passed very close to the NWS Jackson radar site. A third tornado occurred on November 1, 2018, but this was a small tornado and rapidly dissipated.
That same tornado also resulted in considerable damage to the Anderson Hills subdivision and in Harvest, Alabama. In total, nine people were killed in Madison County, and many others injured. Other significant tornado events include the Super Outbreak in April 1974, the November 1989 Tornado Outbreak that killed 21 and injured almost 500, and the Anderson Hills Tornado that killed one and caused extensive damage in 1995. On January 21, 2010, Huntsville experienced a rare mid-winter tornado.
On April 26, 1991, a large tornado outbreak struck the central United States. The outbreak produced an F5 tornado that heavily damaged the town of Andover, Kansas, as well as numerous less destructive tornadoes throughout the region. The outbreak killed 21 people, 17 of which were from the Andover tornado. A news team filming a tornado in the outbreak sought shelter under a highway overpass, causing a misconception that overpasses can provide adequate shelter during a tornado.
A destructive tornado moved across the area with severe damage and multiple injuries according to WLBT coverage. That afternoon, Mississippi State University spotters confirmed a large tornado in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama and another tornado emergency was issued. ABC 33/40 coverage reported that the tornado was 3/4 mile (1.2 km) in width. Over 90 tornado sightings were reported that day and at least eight people were killed in Mississippi and Alabama.
A three-day tornado outbreak affected various regions of the United States during mid-March 2019. On March 12, an EF2 tornado impacted the city of Dexter, New Mexico. The tornado damaged or destroyed several homes and mobile homes in town, injuring 6 people. It was the earliest EF1 or stronger tornado in the state of New Mexico on record and also the first tornado in Chaves County during the month of March going back to 1959.
Nearly 22 years later, a long-tracked high-end EF3 tornado passed just north of Downtown Nashville just after midnight on March 3, 2020. That tornado moved along a more easterly path that intersected with the path of this tornado in East Nashville. It then continued east along Interstate 40 through Wilson and Smith counties. That tornado killed five people, injured 220, and caused $1.504 billion in damage, making it the 6th costliest tornado in US history.
The longest-known track for a single tornado is the Tri-State Tornado with a path length of . For years there was debate whether the originally recognized path length of over 3.5 hours was from one tornado or a series. Some very long track (VLT) tornadoes were later determined to be successive tornadoes spawned by the same supercell thunderstorm, which are known as a tornado family. The Tri-State Tornado, however, appeared to have no gaps in the damage.
CDT (00:59 UTC), after having travelled just over . At its widest point, the tornado was wide. Following the tornado, 85 members of the U.S. National Guard were deployed to assist in search and rescue, debris clearing, security and traffic control. On April 27, 2014, three years and two days after this tornado, a violent EF4 tornado touched down west of Ferndale and moved along almost the same path as this tornado, causing 16 fatalities and many injuries.
A historic tornado outbreak and derecho began on the afternoon of May 30 and lasted into the next day. It affected a large portion of the northern half of the United States and Southern Ontario from Southeastern Montana east-southeastward to the Atlantic Ocean. The initial tornado outbreak, including the devastating Spencer tornado, hit Southeast South Dakota on the evening of the May 30\. The Spencer tornado was the most destructive and second deadliest tornado in South Dakota history.
The tornado roughly followed Connecticut Route 75 just east of Bradley International Airport. The airport's weather station recorded a wind gust of as the tornado passed nearby. A United Airlines flight with 114 passengers was attempting to land as the tornado was passing the airport; the pilot saw the tornado and was able to abort the landing just in time. The tornado then crossed the northern portion of the airport, where the New England Air Museum was located.
The 1961 St. Petersburg, Florida tornado was an F2 tornado that impacted the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, on May 5, 1961. The tornado, which only touched down briefly, struck the Northeast High School and the nearby Meadowlawn neighborhood in the extreme north part of St. Petersburg. The parent thunderstorm that spawned the tornado was also attended by hail up to in diameter. The tornado traveled through the north side of St. Petersburg and produced a path wide.
During the tornado outbreak on May 3, 1999, a tornado hit Moore and nearby areas. The tornado, which was rated an F5 on the Fujita scale, was the most costly tornado in history at the time (not adjusted for changes in inflation and population). The tornado had an approximate recorded wind speed of as sampled by mobile Doppler radar, the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth. It left a swath of destruction over wide at times, and long.
Later, another F2 tornado struck Idabel, Oklahoma, injuring one. The worst tornado was a small, but deadly F2 tornado that hit the southeast side of Eagletown, Oklahoma, killing one and injuring 14. More tornado activity was confirmed the next day, including a long-tracked F2 tornado that touched down in Fayette, Mississippi and struck Downtown Jackson along its 96.7 mile path, although there no casualties reported. Overall, eight tornadoes touched down, killing two people and injuring 16 others.
1953 Vicksburg Tornado Memorial Plaque. Although usually a quiet month, the first six days of the December were extremely destructive and deadly as a series of single damaging tornado days and small outbreaks combined into a tornado outbreak sequence of 19 tornadoes across the South. On December 2, a brief, but strong F2 tornado killed two and injured five west of Navasota, Texas. The next day, a wide, violent F4 tornado tracked through four Parishes in Louisiana.
A tornado outbreak sequence consisting of four tornado outbreaks over four days impacted the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains. On April 21, the first tornado of the outbreak struck the eastern side of White Hall, Arkansas at F2 strength, killing one and injuring two. Later on, another F2 tornado hit Selmont-West Selmont south of Selma, Alabama, injuring one. The next day, a strong F3 tornado moved through rural New Madrid County, Missouri, injuring 10.
The trend of non-fatal outbreaks came to an abrupt end when another outbreak of 17 tornadoes struck the Midwest and the Southeast.The first tornado of the outbreak occurred on March 31 in Oklahoma, when an F2 tornado moved through areas north of Morrison. An F1 tornado then injured one north of Pawnee. Three people were then injured by an F3 tornado in Silver City. Later, a massive, wide F3 tornado hit Western Callisburg, Texas, injuring 16.
On June 9, 1971, the largest observed tornado in history as of that time occurred just to the west-southwest of Gruver. Since then, it has been bested by a 2004 tornado in Hallam, Nebraska, and the May 2013 tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma. The average width of the tornado along its path is estimated at 2,500 yards and the maximum width was about 2 miles along its 15-mile path. The tornado moved very slowly.
A total of 16 tornadoes touched down in an widely scattered tornado outbreak sequence. On June 25, an unusually severe F0 tornado caused major damage and 34 injuries in Cimarron, New Mexico. This was the largest number of injuries ever recorded from an F0/EF0 tornado in the US. The next morning, an F2 tornado damaged Diboll and Shady Grove, Texas. June 27 saw an F3 tornado hit Southeastern Sunol and Southern Chappell, Nebraska, injuring one.
The 2018 Port Orchard tornado was a rare strong tornado that struck the city of Port Orchard, Washington on December 18, 2018. The National Weather Service office in Seattle rated the tornado as an EF2 following an on-site survey of the storm damage the day after the event. There were no fatalities or major injuries reported. This was the first tornado to have touched down in Western Washington since an EF0 tornado in 2017 near Monroe.
The Spencer, South Dakota F4 tornado was the most destructive and second deadliest tornado in the history of the state. It was also the fifth deadliest tornado of the year. It began as a large, dust-cloaked tornado northwest of Farmer, South Dakota in Hanson County, concurrent with the demise of the "Fulton" tornado. Continuing toward the east-southeast, it struck several farmsteads before crossing the Hanson/McCook County line a half mile west-northwest of Spencer.
The tornado damaged or destroyed several mobile homes and injured two people person. Damage from the tornado amounted to $350,000 dollars (2006 USD).
Reed, Roy. "A Town's Luck Ends as Tornado Hits; A Town's Luck Ends as Tornado Hits." The New York Times. February 23, 1971.
An F2 tornado killed three in Onslow County, North Carolina. This would be the most people killed by a single tornado in 1986.
A similar size tornado struck Edmonson, Texas on May 31, 1968, when a damage path width between was recorded from an F3 tornado.
A deadly tornado outbreak affected the state of Ohio on May 10, though tornado activity began as early as May 9 in Minnesota.
The town was ravaged by an F4 tornado that was part of the 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak on May 31, 1985.
The only confirmed tornado of the month, a brief, nighttime F3 tornado, struck near New Orleans, Louisiana. No injuries or fatalities were reported.
Officially listed as a single tornado, but may have been a tornado family of two or more tornadoes, one of which was an F4 and the other an F5. The first (F4) tornado may have lifted near Holland, passing aloft over Zeeland before touching down as a second (F5) tornado just east of town. The second tornado then continued northeast before lifting northeast of Trufant. Just before 5:00 PM CST, a tornado touched down on the beach near Saugatuck, Michigan, and proceeded , producing F4 damage and injuring seven people while destroying barns, outbuildings and garages.
After producing the Tupelo tornado, the storm system moved through Alabama overnight and reached Gainesville, Georgia, at around 8:30 a.m. This early morning tornado was a double tornado event: one tornado moved in from the Atlanta highway, while the other moved in from the Dawsonville highway. The two merged on Grove Street and destroyed everything throughout the downtown area, causing wreckage to pile high in some places. The worst tornado-caused death toll in a single building in U.S. history was at the Cooper Pants Factory. The multiple-story building was then filled with young workers,Grazulis, The Tornado, p. 26.
Fujita is recognized as the discoverer of downbursts and microbursts and also developed the Fujita scale, which differentiates tornado intensity and links tornado damage with wind speed. Fujita's best-known contributions were in tornado research; he was often called "Mr. Tornado" by his associates and by the media.USA Today 2005-03-16 In addition to developing the Fujita scale, Fujita was a pioneer in the development of tornado overflight and damage survey techniques, which he used to study and mapThe Lubbock Tornado: May 11, 1970 the paths of the two tornadoes that hit Lubbock, Texas on May 11, 1970.
A deadly F5 tornado that hit the city of Jarrell, Texas in 1997 moved to the southwest - directly opposite of commonly expected storm motion. Another notable example is the 1990 Plainfield tornado, a significant and deadly F5 tornado that traveled from northwest-to-southeast. Additionally, tornadoes can shift without notice due to storm motion changes or effects on the tornado itself from factors such as its rear flank downdraft. This change of direction proved deadly in the 2013 El Reno tornado in which a 2.6 mile wide tornado shifted from an east direction to a northeast direction killing 4 storm chasers.
The tornado maintained strong intensity as it crossed the remainder of Choctaw County, including damaging a number of homes as it cross Highways 415, 9 and Highways 15. The tornado rapidly narrowed and weakened as it crossed into Oktibbeha County, and dissipated north of the town of Sturgis after being on the ground for nearly three hours. The tornado tracked , making it the fourth longest in Mississippi history. The tornado was up to wide at its widest point, making it the second- largest tornado ever in Mississippi, after the 2.25 mile wide Bassfield, Mississippi EF4 tornado on April 12, 2020.
All four December tornadoes touched down on this day in the form of a deadly tornado outbreak that struck Illinois and Arkansas. The first tornado was a long-tracked F2 twister that struck Dorsey, White City, and Mt. Olive, Illinois, killing one and injuring three. The second tornado was the deadliest; a long-tracked F3 tornado moved through Highland, Pocahontas, Stubblefield, and Greenville, Illinois, killing two and injuring 25. An additional F3 tornado passed east of Franklin, Arkansas, while an F1 tornado passed north of Sparta, Illinois near Tilden, both of which caused no additional casualties.
The worst tornado of the outbreak occurred just after midnight on November 4, when an F3 twister touched down and moved through rural areas of Henderson County, before striking Leagueville and Brownsboro, injuring three. Another destructive F3 tornado later hit Northern Darco and Western Stricklin Springs. Following the second F3 tornado, an extremely rare F0 tornado touched down in Alaska on Kayak Island that afternoon and caused some minor damage to Cape St. Elias. This was the first tornado ever confirmed in Alaska, thus making it the 50th and final state to confirm their first tornado since 1950.
The March 1933 Nashville tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that affected the city of Nashville and the Middle Tennessee region on March 14, 1933. The entire outbreak produced five or more tornadoes, killed 44 people, and injured at least 461. One of the tornadoes was an F3 tornado family that struck downtown Nashville, killing 15 people and injuring 235. It is the seventh-deadliest tornado in Middle Tennessee on record and is one of two significant tornado events in the region in 1933, the other being the Beatty Swamps tornado of May 10, 1933.
The Roanoke tornado was the most significant tornado of a small tornado outbreak which transitioned into a destructive derecho over an extensive area of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys extending to the Gulf of Mexico. The outbreak produced three other tornadoes, all rated F0. The Roanoke 2004 Tornado was featured on The Weather Channel's Storm Stories and Full Force Nature.
This was the strongest tornado to hit Beaver County since 1985. This was also the only EF2+ tornado to touch down throughout the entire month in the United States. Additionally, seven mostly weak tornadoes touched down in Ontario on June 10. The strongest and most damaging tornado was an EF2 tornado that impacted Mary Lake, flattening a large swath of trees.
Gerona followed up with three live shots; Tornado stopped its engines and struck its colors. The crew of Tornado was transferred to Gerona. Tornado was manned by a prize crew commanded by naval lieutenant Manuel de Bustillo y Pery. Tornado sailed for Cádiz, where it arrived on 26 August, while Gerona returned to Madeira in a fruitless search for Tornados sister ship Cyclone.
An intense tornado struck the town of Batesville and caused widespread destruction in its path. The tornado passed over the campus of Lyon College, which was called Arkansas College at the time. The tornado tore roofs from buildings on campus. The tornado also dislodged homes and other structures from their foundations, some of which sustained collapse of their walls or lost their roofs.
On May 22, 1949 the same storm system that caused the F1 tornado in Altoona also spawned an F1 tornado in the Morrisons Cove area. The tornado initially touched down south of Curryville where it downed several large trees and destroyed a barn. The tornado moved north east, striking Henrietta and Millerstown. Several homes were unroofed and barns were destroyed, in both areas.
This was the opening battle of Extreme - Tornado against Stinger, who had apparently claimed that Tornado was just a boring box on wheels. Tornado won the fight on a judges decision by shoving Stinger around. The 'grudge' was very obviously faked, as it had been fought to entertain viewers when filming was delayed. Tornado slammed and flipped Stinger over and over.
Eight robots (Barbarous 2, Dantomkia, Hypno-Disc, Iron Awe 2, Sir Chromalot, SMIDSY, Terrorhurtz and Vader) competed against each other for the right to challenge Tornado for the Challenge Belt, which Tornado had continued to hold since the first series of Extreme. Terrorhurtz won, and went against Tornado. Tornado quickly pitted Terrorhurtz, and was allowed to keep the second Challenge Belt forever.
The 2008 Vancouver tornado was a rare tornado that occurred in the city of Vancouver, Washington on January 10, 2008. The NWS rated this storm EF1 (wind speeds of 90-110 mph). The National Weather Service briefly posted a Tornado Warning. The tornado was immediately accompanied by several funnel clouds, and an advisory issued stated that more funnel clouds were possible.
On April 28, 2008, a massive tornado moved through portions of Suffolk. The tornado is considered one of the strongest tornadoes to strike the state of Virginia in recent history and the worst to strike Hampton Roads since a tornado spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Dennis nine years before. The 2008 tornado was rated EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
House that was swept completely away by the EF4 Wakefield tornado. The fifth tornado spawned by this supercell touched down as the main Pilger tornado was dissipating. This large wedge tornado quickly reached EF4 strength soon after touching down, moving east as it cleanly swept away a farm home. Further east, a large metal electrical transmission truss tower was toppled at EF3 intensity.
On January 24, 1967, a violent F4 tornado ripped a path of destruction across St. Louis County. It was the fourth-worst tornado to hit the St. Louis metro area and the most recent F4 tornado to hit the city. The tornado developed near the Chesterfield Manor nursing home and then moved through River Bend Estates and across northeast St. Louis County.
The tornado near Littlefork lifted a mobile home and moved it to the northeast of the original site. The two occupants of the home were killed and the tornado caused $50,000 in damage. National Weather Service officials first believed the tornado to be "straight- line winds", but after an investigation they determined that a tornado had occurred at the site.
Additional minor damage to trees, power lines, and outbuildings occurred as the tornado crossed into Cleveland County, executing a loop in a field before dissipating just west of Moore. Overall, one person was killed and 48 other people were injured by this tornado along its long path. This tornado followed a similar path to that of a tornado in May 1999.
On April 14, 2012, the town was hit by a tornado. The tornado was rated an EF2 and caused considerable damage to the hospital, community college, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses and the high school. The town's tornado sirens for some reason did not activate and the tornado caught people off guard. Patients at the hospital were transferred to other local hospitals.
Debris was found as far as away in Sheldon. The same area was also hit by a deadly tornado in 1930 which however struck the center of Menomonie slightly to the south of the 1958 tornado track. That tornado killed at least six. An F3 tornado on May 24 also affected the immediate region causing heavy damage but no fatalities.
At 3:04 pm, a tornado warning was issued for the city. The tornado moved into the southeast portion of the city as a multiple- vortex tornado, and tracked north along the eastern portions of Mill Woods, causing F2 to F3 damage. The tornado continued northward crossing the Sherwood Park Freeway and eventually hitting the Refinery Row area at F4 intensity.
This tornado killed a 50-year-old woman when her modular home was swept away near LaPorte. At 3:15, another tornado watch was issued for southern Michigan. Oct 24: Tornado vortex signatures as seen by the North Webster WSR-88D radar. At 3:46, another tornado warning was issued for St. Joseph County, Indiana and southeastern Berrien County, Michigan and Cass County.
On October 14, an extratropical cyclone moved through the Pacific Northwest, causing a rare strong tornado in Oregon. The tornado began as a large waterspout before moving ashore. The tornado was assigned an EF2 rating in the town of Manzanita, where the tornado left behind torn off roofs, damaged homes, and destroyed businesses. Many trees and power lines were downed as well.
Later, an F3 tornado passed through Bluff and Kansas, Alabama, injuring one. Another F3 tornado then tore through Northern Fairview, Hulaco, and Union Grove, Alabama, injuring eight. The final strong tornado of the outbreak then occurred early the next morning when a large, F2 tornado passed through Burning Bush, Southern Boynton, and Ringgold, Georgia. Overall, the outbreak sequence killed two and injured 152.
The next day, an F2 tornado injured two in the rural Georgia counties of Coffee and Bacon. Later, an F1 tornado injured one in St. Cloud, Florida. The last tornado to cause casualties as well as the only to produce fatalities was an F1 tornado that struck Hartsville, South Carolina, killing one. In the end, the outbreak killed one and injured six.
Nine tornadoes hit Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The first strong tornado of the outbreak was a brief F2 tornado that hit Idaville, Indiana on July 28. Next, another brief F2 tornado injured two in Redkey, Indiana. This was followed by F3 tornado that hit Union City, Indiana before moving through Union City, Ansonia, Dawn, Versailles and Russia, Ohio, injuring two.
Nine tornadoes hit five states. The first tornado of the outbreak was an F2 tornado that passed southeast of Lima Center and Whitewater, Wisconsin on September 22, injuring one. Later, a gigantic, wide F2 tornado hit Marne, Michigan just northwest of Grand Rapids, also injuring one. On September 24, a long-tracked F3 tornado struck Daleville, Farmland, and Union City, Indiana, injuring one.
A localized, but devastating series of three tornadoes impacted South Dakota and Minnesota. First, an F1 tornado caused considerable damage north of Parmelee during the afternoon of September 15. Early the next morning, a violent F4 tornado ripped through Southeastern Rochester, Minnesota, injuring 34. The final tornado occurred shortly thereafter when an F2 tornado damaged parts of Pleasant Grove, Minnesota.
Widely scattered tornadoes struck numerous areas across the US. On May 16, an F3 tornado struck Cooper, Texas, killing one and injuring eight. This tornado was unusual because it moved in west-northwest direction. On May 17, a long-tracked F3 tornado moved through Rayville, Epps, and Wilman, Louisiana, injuring 17. On May 19, another rare F2 tornado struck California.
Later on, an back-to-back F3 tornado in Dahlgren, Illinois and Bungay and Springerton, Illinois injured three and four respectfully. Tornado activity continued into December 19, with 10 more tornadoes touching down. A violent F4 tornado tore through Northwestern McNeil and Spring Hill, Arkansas, killing two and injuring nine. A brief but destructive F1 tornado injured two in Milan, Tennessee.
A third F3 tornado hit the north sides of Joppa and Arab before moving onto Lake Guntersville. That afternoon, an F2 tornado injured five in Calhoun, Georia. Another F2 tornado hit Cross Keys, South Carolina before moving through rural Union County, injuring two. A large F3 tornado moved through the north side of Jacksonville, Georgia, killing one and injuring three.
Later, a long-tracked F4 tornado family hit Jefferson, South Carolina before moving through Southern Laurinburg, St. Pauls, and Roseboro, North Carolina, killing four and injuring 70. An F1 tornado then hit the Norfolk Naval Base, injuring two. Another person was injured east of Benevolence, Georgia by F2 tornado. Later, a violent F4 tornado moved directly through Downtown Pembroke, North Carolina, injuring 21.
Another F3 tornado hit rural Franklin County, striking areas that the F5 tornado hit just an hour earlier. Later, the final tornado of the day struck Tamaha and Sallisaw, Oklahoma at F3 strength, injuring one. More casualties and destruction occurred the next day. An F4 tornado passed near Harris, and Rush City, Minnesota just east of the border with Wisconsin, injuring two.
Later, another F2 tornado moved through areas east of McKenzie, injuring two. That afternoon, another F2 tornado injured one in rural Barbour County. The final tornado of the day then occurred just over three hours later, when a brief, but damaging F1 tornado touched down southeast of Cross Plains, Indiana. Overall, the outbreak sequence caused one fatality and 36 injuries.
A modest outbreak sequence of 23 tornadoes hit areas from California and Illinois. The first major tornado occurred on May 30 when an F3 tornado tore through rural Benson County, North Dakota. Right at midnight on May 31, an F1 tornado injured one in Kampville, Missouri north of St. Louis. Later, an F2 tornado injured two in Rolling Prairie, Indiana.
In Kansas, an F3 tornado hit areas northwest of Labette. June 1 saw a rare F2 tornado track 15 miles through Valley Ford and Fredericks, California, causing major damage, but no casualties before dissipating southwest of Roseland and Santa Rosa. The final tornado of the outbreak was an F1 tornado in Columbia, Alabama. In the end, the outbreak sequence injured three.
Tornado activity slowed after that, but some strong tornadoes still touched down. On September 27, a violent F4 tornado moved through rural Craig County, Oklahoma before moving into Kansas, growing , and striking Western Chetopa, killing one and injuring one. Later, an F1 tornado hit Polk, Missouri, injuring one. An F2 tornado then hit Bardolph and Southeastern Bushnell, Illinois, injuring one as well.
A massive outbreak of 50 tornadoes struck the Great Plains and the Midwest, with 46 of them occurring on May 4. The first major tornado of the outbreak was an F2 tornado that struck Sabinal, Texas. A massive, wide F2 tornado then hit the south side of Knippa, Texas. Later, a brief F1 tornado injured one northeast of Loma, Nebraska.
Occasionally, a single storm will produce more than one tornado, either simultaneously or in succession. Multiple tornadoes produced by the same storm cell are referred to as a "tornado family". Several tornadoes are sometimes spawned from the same large-scale storm system. If there is no break in activity, this is considered a tornado outbreak (although the term "tornado outbreak" has various definitions).
The Bridge Creek−Moore tornado produced an estimated of debris from the buildings that were destroyed. This was the deadliest tornado recorded in Oklahoma since a long-track F5 tornado killed 107 people in Woodward on April 9, 1947. It was also the deadliest tornado ever recorded in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area; the previous record was held by an F4 tornado that affected southwestern portions of the city on June 12, 1942, which killed 31 people and caused $500,000 in damage ($ million in ( USD) when adjusted for inflation). It was the costliest tornado in U.S. history until it was surpassed by an EF4 tornado that hit Tuscaloosa and northern portions of Birmingham, Alabama, on April 27, 2011, causing an estimated $2.45 billion in damage (, the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado is the fourth-costliest tornado, having also been surpassed by the EF5 tornadoes that hit Joplin on May 22, 2011, and areas of Moore near the 1999 storm track on May 20, 2013).
Flyover of a German Navy Tornado during a training exercise in 2003 As a multirole aircraft, the Tornado is capable of undertaking more mission profiles than the anticipated strike mission; various operators replaced multiple aircraft types with the Tornado as a common type – the use of dedicated single role aircraft for specialist purposes such as battlefield reconnaissance, maritime patrol duties, or dedicated electronic countermeasures (ECM) were phased out – either by standard Tornados or modified variants, such as the Tornado ECR. The most extensive modification from the base Tornado design was the Tornado ADV, which was stretched and armed with long range anti-aircraft missiles to serve in the interceptor role. Tornado operators have undertaken various life extension and upgrade programmes to keep their Tornado fleets as viable frontline aircraft. With these upgrades it is projected that the Tornado shall be in service until 2025, more than 50 years after the first prototype took flight.
The Tri-State Tornado was a deadly and destructive tornado that struck parts of three states in the Central United States on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 18, 1925. The most exceptional of at least 12 significant tornadoes produced by a major tornado outbreak that spanned a large portion of the Midwestern and Southern United States, the Tri-State Tornado killed at least 695 people, making it by far the deadliest tornado in United States history and the second-deadliest in world history.Tri-State Tornado - History, Facts and Information The track left by the tornado, as it crossed from southeastern Missouri, through southern Illinois, and then into southwestern Indiana, is also the longest ever recorded. Modern meteorological re-analysis has suggested that the extremely long path length and lifespan reported in historical accounts are perhaps more plausibly attributed to multiple independent tornadoes belonging to a tornado family, rather than a single, continuous tornado.
Tornadoes exceeding F2/EF2 intensity are rare in Canada, although some tornadoes, such as the Edmonton Tornado in 1987, have been as strong as F4. The only F5/EF5 tornado recorded in Canada to date was the Elie, Manitoba tornado in 2007.
Europe's perhaps deadliest tornado ever (and probably one of the World's deadliest tornadoes) hit Malta in 1551 (or 1556) and killed about 600. One notable tornado of recent years was the Birmingham Tornado (UK) which struck Birmingham, United Kingdom, in July 2005.
A tornado reportedly touched down in the city of Kiester on June 17, 2010. The tornado caused a large amount of destruction, and several homes were damaged. The tornado was later rated EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale after damage assessment was completed.
During the 1993 Virginia tornado outbreak, Petersburg was struck by an F4 tornado that swept through the downtown area, seriously damaging a number of restored historic buildings and businesses. The same tornado also touched down in Colonial Heights destroying a Walmart store.
During the evening of August 22, a strong tornado struck the town of Bulacan. The tornado destroyed 44 homes and damaged 21 others while injuring two people. Four days after the tornado, the local governments provided roofing materials to the affected homes.
The tornado then widened and walloped Franklin Street. The tornado may have been 300 yards wide at that point. The storm continued to tear through the municipality (mostly in the industrial section). Eventually the tornado worked its way out of the city.
On March 31, 1962, an F3 tornado hit the northwest side of Milton, causing 17 deaths and 100 injuries. It was Florida's deadliest tornado until February 22, 1998 when 25 people were killed in Kissimmee. It was also the deadliest tornado in 1962.
A total of 20 homes were severely damaged or destroyed while 190 more sustained varying degrees of damage. One person sustained minor injuries in relation to the tornado. This was the strongest tornado in France since the deadly 2008 F4 Hautmont tornado.
Lawton is located squarely in the area known as Tornado Alley and is prone to severe weather from late April through early June. Most notably, an F4 tornado in 1957, and an F3 tornado in 1979 struck the southern region of the city.
Four tornadoes touched down across three states. First, an F2 tornado damaged areas southeast of Kenansville, North Carolina. Next, an F1 tornado injured one north of Mt. Olive, North Carolina. Another injury then occurred when another F2 tornado struck Marion, South Carolina.
Another tornado destroyed all buildings on a farm except for the house. On June 14 an F3 tornado injured three people in the Akron, Iowa area. An F2 tornado south of Champion, Nebraska destroyed barns and outbuildings on a farm, injuring one person.
In Texas, a deadly F3 tornado struck Wichita Falls, killing one and injuring 14. Another F3 tornado hit Stoneburg, injuring one. After minimal tornado activity from April 3-4, a deadly outbreak of 17 tornadoes struck the Midwest and Alabama on April 5.
A destructive F3 tornado then hit Carthage and Edinbrug, Mississippi. The final strong tornado was also the only deadly one: A devastating F3 tornado that hit Neafus, and Caneyville, Kentucky, killing three. In the end, the outbreak killed three and injured five.
Several tornadoes touched down across northern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary on June 9. At 14:30 UTC, an F3 tornado struck Litovel, injuring five people. A T4/F2 tornado injured one person in Lower Saxony, and another F2 tornado struck Budapest.
There, eleven planes and five vintage helicopters were damaged. The tornado then moved towards the Edgar Blalock Raw Water Reservation. At this point, the tornado had already been weakening and shrinking. The tornado turned to the northwest and crossed into Clayton County.
The 1900 Westchester County tornado was an intense, but short-lived tornado that caused significant damage near the city of New Rochelle, New York.
Others that did not take shelter in the tornado shelter stayed in their mobile homes, and thirteen of them were killed by the tornado.
Experts: Don't rely just on tornado warning sirens, CBS News, April 16, 2012.How reliable are Okla. tornado sirens?, KFOR-TV, April 15, 2012.
The tornado travelled through Jackson and Marion Counties and had a peak width of . One person was killed by the tornado in Jackson County.
He was the Spanish Champion in Soling and Tornado and the trainer of the Tornado Gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
It was also the first single tornado since the June 8, 1953 F5 tornado in Flint, Michigan, to have 100 or more associated fatalities.
The goal was to create a safer community in a tornado-prone region. By May 2003, a total of 6,016 safe rooms were constructed. On May 9, 2003, the new initiative was put to the test as a tornado outbreak in the region spawned an F4 tornado, which took a path similar to that of the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado. Due to the higher standards for public safety, no one was killed by the 2003 tornado, a substantial improvement in just four years.
A deadly series of at least 33 tornadoes hit at least 10 different U.S. states on May 9–11, 1953. Tornadoes appeared daily from Minnesota in the north to Texas in the south. The strongest and deadliest tornado was a powerful F5 tornado that struck Waco, Texas on May 11, causing 114 of the 144 deaths in the outbreak. Alongside the 1902 Goliad tornado, it was the deadliest tornado in Texas history and is the 11th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
In total, this tornado killed 72 people, all in Alabama. This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since the 1955 Udall, Kansas tornado that killed 80 people. This death toll would go on to be exceeded by the Joplin EF5 tornado less than a month later. Damage from the tornado amounted to $1.29 billion, making this one of the costliest tornadoes in U.S. history.
The Red Tornado was formed with the merger of two entities: an android body created by supervillain T. O. Morrow and the Tornado Champion from the Earth-One planet Rann. The Tornado Champion was the morally good part of a sentient tornado on Rann. Known as Ulthoon, the Tornado Tyrant of Rann, this being was defeated by Adam StrangeMystery in Space #61 (August 1960). and "contemplated the nature of good and evil and decided that good was the superior force".
Completed Tornado Diagram Tornado diagrams, also called tornado plots, tornado charts or butterfly charts, are a special type of Bar chart, where the data categories are listed vertically instead of the standard horizontal presentation, and the categories are ordered so that the largest bar appears at the top of the chart, the second largest appears second from the top, and so on. They are so named because the final chart visually resembles either one half of or a complete tornado.
The 1879 Bouctouche Tornado was a tornado that struck the town of Bouctouche, New Brunswick on Wednesday, August 6, 1879. It is estimated that the tornado was an F3 in strength, and is the easternmost major tornado in North America, though weaker tornadoes and waterspouts have been known to form in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The tornado killed 5 people, injured 10 others, and rendered 25 families homeless. The Moniteur Acadian published an extra edition to cover the full details.
The state with the most tornado deaths throughout history is Illinois, with 90. The largest school death toll from a tornado was 69 during the Tri-State Tornado, which also struck Illinois and significantly raised that state's death toll. The greatest death toll at a single school also occurred during the Tri-State tornado, when it killed 33 at a school in De Soto, also in Illinois. This tornado also injured hundreds more at schools, and killed many students returning home from schools.
An outbreak sequence produced 47 tornadoes across the Midwest and Southeast. It started with an F2 tornado causing considerable damage in Canadian County, Oklahoma on March 26. Another F2 tornado then hit Crockett, Texas, injuring one. Later, a wide F2 tornado caused major damage and an injury in rural Greenwood County, Kansas. A destructive F3 tornado hit the southwest side of the Southern Fort Worth suburb of Burleson, Texas. At the same time, an F2 tornado hit Northwestern Burleson, injuring one.
Tornado activity over the next four days was limited, but did include multiple strong tornadoes, including the first deadly one of the outbreak. The fatal F3 tornado tore through rural Nacogdoches County, Texas on March 27, killing two and injuring four. The next day, an F2 tornado caused considerable damage in rural Wood County, Texas. March 29 saw an F2 tornado hit Northern Horntown, Oklahoma while March 30 saw a large wide F2 tornado injure one in rural Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
A tornado outbreak struck portions of the Midwestern United States and the Ohio River Valley. A violent tornado, which may have started in Kentucky, damaged or destroyed 550 homes in Wheelersburg, Ohio, Killing 7 people and destroyed more homes in Gallipolis. This tornado was officially rated F5, but its rating is disputed as tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis assigned a rating of F4. A long-tracked F4 tornado traveled more than 70 miles across parts of portions Kentucky and Ohio.
An outbreak of 10 tornadoes struck the Midwest and the Mississippi Valley. On March 21, a large F3 tornado moved through Bancroft, Iowa, although there were no casualties. This was not the case in Minnesota, where a brief but strong F2 tornado killed one and injured three east-northeast of St. Cloud. The next day, an extremely long-tracked F2 tornado traveled 234.7 miles through Louisiana and Mississippi (although this was more than likely a tornado family rather than just a single tornado).
An F3 tornado moved through Paducah and areas east of Chalk, killing one and injuring 14. Another F3 tornado struck Iowa Park and Northern Pleasant Valley northwest of Wichita Falls, killing one and injuring four. The third, and final, F3 tornado then briefly touched down right over Downtown Burkburnett, injuring three. June 2 featured one more fatal tornado when a large, 1000 yard wide F2 twister killed one and injured eight in Enloe, Texas, although tornado activity lasted until June 3.
The Great Plains and Midwest, due to the contrasting air masses, see frequent severe thunderstorms and tornado outbreaks during spring and summer with around 1,000 tornadoes occurring each year.NSSL: Severe Weather 101 . Nssl.noaa.gov. Retrieved on 2013-07-29. The strip of land from north Texas north to Kansas and Nebraska and east into Tennessee is known as Tornado Alley, where many houses have tornado shelters and many towns have tornado sirens due to the very frequent tornado formations in the region.
The tornado that struck the city of Xenia, Ohio stands as the deadliest individual tornado of the 1974 Super Outbreak, killing 32 people and destroying a significant portion of the town. The tornado formed near Bellbrook, Ohio, southwest of Xenia, at about 4:30 pm EDT. It began as a moderate-sized tornado, then intensified while moving northeast at about 50 mph (80 km/h). The tornado exhibited a multiple-vortex structure and became very large as it approached town.
The tornado then skirted through Park Forest uprooting trees, before dissipating near Olympia Fields and Chicago Heights at 6:30 pm CDT (2330 UTC). This was the strongest tornado to strike Cook County since the March 1991 Lemont tornado. At approximately 6:32 pm CDT (2332 UTC), an EF1 tornado hit Chicago Heights, causing minor damage to several homes, with two homes sustaining significant damage. At 6:49 pm CDT (2349 UTC), an EF0 tornado touched down in Lansing, damaging tree limbs.
Roughly 15 minutes after the Elgin tornado formed, a violent F4 tornado tore through Will and Cook Counties, producing a path long in the Bellwood and Maywood areas. The tornado first destroyed five homes, two frame schools, and at least 12 barns as it passed from Channahon to Troy and then Lockport. It skipped thereafter, possibly dissipating and redeveloping into a second tornado, as it caused minor damage in the Romeoville area. Afterward, the tornado funnel was not seen for some time.
The tornado also bought about a new inquiry for tornado sirens. Despite the casualties and damages caused by the tornado, the Weather Bureau stood by their decision to not issue a tornado warning and even if one had been issued, the city's defense sirens would not have sounded because they were to be used to alert the area of air-raid strikes, not for weather warnings (this was very common during the Cold War era). It was not until another deadly outbreak in 1967 produced another F4 tornado that killed three in the same general area that tornado sirens were finally installed. The F3 tornado in Southern Highland County, Ohio injured and killed multiple farm animals and downed over 100 power lines in Sugar Tree Ridge alone.
2007 started quickly in terms of tornadoes, with the first tornado fatalities taking place in the first week of January. After few other significant events in the rest of January, a deadly period took place in the latter part of the winter. Two deadly outbreaks and several other major tornado events marred February and March, especially in the southern US. The spring was also fairly active, with several significant tornado events in April and May, including a major outbreak in the first weekend of May producing the first ever EF5 tornado (and first F5 tornado on any scale in the 21st century). While June was not as active with fewer tornadoes, it produced another F5 tornado and Canada's first such confirmed tornado.
Tornado activity on October 22 was limited to a single EF1 that injured one person and caused moderate damage to a large industrial building and some trailers in Pascagoula, Mississippi; the second EF1 tornado to cause damage in Pascagoula in the year 2017. The most significant tornado activity occurred on October 23, as an EF1 tornado downed many trees and damaged several homes in Spartanburg, South Carolina. After the initial Spartanburg tornado dissipated, a second, stronger EF2 tornado caused major damage to industrial buildings, a metal truss tower, trees and power poles, a gas station, and vehicles in the northwestern part of the city, and injured one person. Another EF2 tornado damaged or destroyed multiple homes, destroyed outbuildings, and snapped trees and power poles near Gaffney.
A fatal F2 tornado then struck Blanchester, Midland, Jonesboro and Martinsville, Ohio before passing north of New Vienna, Highland, and Leesburg, killing two and injuring four. Another F2 tornado then injured two southeast of Clarksville, Tennessee. Limited tornado activity occurred over the next four days with an F2 tornado injuring two in Spring Hill, Alabama on April 27, an F3 tornado causing major damage in Rogers Manor, Delaware on April 28, and an F2 tornado striking Western Corpus Christi, Texas on April 29. On April 30, the final day of the sequence, an outbreak of nine tornadoes struck the Great Plains, although the only one to casualties was an intense F3 tornado, the strongest one of the day, that struck Northern Minco, Oklahoma, injuring two.
1988 was one of the least active tornado seasons on record. March and April saw unusually low activity, as did June. There were some notable outbreaks later in the year, including the Raleigh tornado which was probably the most publicized tornado event of the year.
A tornado outbreak struck Southeast Texas during May 20–21, killing five people, three in Harris County alone. On May 22, an F3 tornado touched down in Emmitsburg, Maryland, causing no deaths or injuries. It was the third recorded F3 tornado in Maryland history.
A large section of asphalt was ripped out by the tornado as well. A few hours later, an F3 tornado touched down in Gillespie County, Texas. The tornado damaged or destroyed 70 structures and tossed vehicles up to . Damage from the storm reached $1 million.
On March 26, 2009, around 1:30 a.m., an EF3 tornado struck the north part of the city. The tornado destroyed 60 homes and caused 25 injuries, with no fatalities. The tornado significantly damaged the town's water treatment plant, interrupting service to the entire town.
Tornado's wheels started smoking as they then pushed Firestorm back. Firestorm then got under Tornado again and pushed them around for a bit. Tornado was beginning to falter as they pressed the Pit Button. Tornado then got under Firestorm and slammed them into Shunt.
An F4 tornado killed one and injured four in Talihina, Oklahoma. An F5 tornado also caused extensive damage in Spiro, Oklahoma, killing two people and injuring 64. The rating of that tornado is disputed. The outbreak as a whole killed four and injured 89.
An F2 tornado hit Sussex County, Delaware (near Greenwood) just two months after being hit by a tornado that caused a death in Maryland, but this tornado resulted in no fatalities or injuries. This was one of only two significant tornadoes to hit Sussex County.
The highest forward speed of a tornado on record was 73 miles per hour (117 km/h) from the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. Other weak tornadoes have approached or exceeded this speed, but this is the fastest forward movement observed in a major tornado.
A two-day tornado outbreak struck Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. F2 tornadoes struck Perth, Kansas, and Duncan, Oklahoma. A stovepipe tornado touched down near the Red River. On May 26, several intense tornadoes struck Oklahoma including a wedge tornado near Preston and another near Beggs.
Near Little Yazoo and Bentonia, the tornado leveled a dozen more homes, killing 11 people. In Holmes County, the tornado extensively damaged homes, barns, chicken coops, and sheds before dissipating. In all, the tornado leveled many homes along the path and injured 182 people.
The final tornado to cause casualties, as well as the final tornado of the outbreak occurred two days later on May 9 when an F2 tornado injured four in Liberty and Bradley, New York. Overall, the outbreak sequence caused 23 fatalities and 126 injuries.
The next day, an F2 tornado caused major damage west of Fairbank, Iowa. The following day, an F3 tornado damaged O'Brien, Texas. The outbreak sequence ended on September 4 with a rare F2 tornado in Malbons Mills, Maine. In the end, the outbreak injured 12.
An outbreak sequence of 10 tornadoes hit the Great Plains, Midwest, and Virginia. The first strong tornado of the outbreak caused F2 damage in Collins, Iowa. Later, another F2 tornado struck Winslow, Nebraska, injuring five. An F3 tornado then occurred north of Davenport, Iowa.
On May 19, 2013, an EF4 tornado tore through Northwest Bethel Acres, and a mobile home park sustained a direct hit from this tornado, killing one person and injuring six others, two critically. This was part of the tornado outbreak of May 18–21, 2013.
On Sunday, March 29, 2009, at approximately 4:40 pm, an EF-1 tornado touched down in Clay Township. The tornado damaged 40 homes and other buildings, and was on the ground for . The tornado then dissipated, and the storm continued northeastward into Berks County.
A violent F4 tornado struck the comunes of Robecco Pavese and Valle Scurpasso in the Pavia, Italy, flattening many large stone buildings. The tornado killed seven people and injured 80. Images of the damage indicate that tornado may have reached T10 (low-end F5) intensity.
Further east, a tornado, rated F0, inflicted minor damage to homes and trees near Orono. In the Bancroft/Carlow/Mayo area, the tornado produced F1 damage to trees and hunting cabins. The final confirmed tornado, an F1, caused roof and tree damage at Rice Lake.
The tornado outbreak sequence of May 22–26, 2016 was an extended period of significant tornado activity that affected the Central United States in late May 2016. This outbreak sequence came less than two weeks after another damaging tornado outbreak that affected similar areas.
Another EF2 tornado moved through New Hampshire and caused significant damage, killing one person, injuring at least two, and prompting a tornado watch for Maine.
The tornado also damaged two schools, 648 homes, and 52 businesses. The tornado caused 10 deaths, 181 injuries, and in excess of 1,000 people homeless.
This tornado crossed into Iowa before dissipating. A third tornado caused EF1 damage to a home, an outbuilding, and some trees near Brumley as well.
Despite the tornado watches, no tornadoes were confirmed on June 25. However, on June 26 a lone tornado touched down as Debby lingered over Florida.
As the tornado passed Highway 6, it was at its peak strength. The tornado had a separate companion for a brief time, a thin black appendage that swept around the front of the main circulation. As the main tornado crossed the highway, it destroyed a barn full of hay which tinted the tornado yellow for a brief time. The tornado's parent supercell also became more intense.
The lack of further fatalities was attributed to a 16-minute lead time on the Moore tornado given by the National Weather Service forecast office in Norman. Risk Management Solutions Inc. estimated that the insurance payout from the tornado would amount to $2–3.5 billion, stating that the event was worse than the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado and may rival the 2011 Joplin tornado.
An F0 tornadic waterspout (starts as a tornado) reported near Lake Okeechobee, Florida created a surreal nighttime sight of a tornado and lightning while only doing minor damage. A famous photo of the event, which includes a mixture of brown and black color of the tornado accompanied with a lightning strike, was taken by Fred Smith, who was photographing the tornado from his backyard.
On July 22, 2010, a tornado rated EF1 hit Verona. On June 9, 2011, an EF1 tornado struck Verona, with winds peaking around 90 mph. On the night of June 16, 2014 an EF3 tornado tore through Country View Elementary School and surrounding neighborhoods. No one was hurt by the tornado and the school was rebuilt and remodeled before school started in the fall.
A brief EF0 tornado, which resulted in little damage, was confirmed near Moulton, Texas. In Colbert, a strong tornado destroyed one home and injured a truck driver after knocking his vehicle on its side. Another tornado struck Dallas just west of North Westmoreland Road near La Reunion Parkway, damaging several structures. This tornado was later rated EF2 with estimated winds of 115 mph (185 km/h).
A storm system spawned numerous tornadoes on August 28th, including the devastating F5 Plainfield, Illinois tornado. The violent, rain wrapped tornado killed 29 people and injured 350. It is the only F5 tornado ever recorded in August and is the only F5 tornado on record to ever strike the Chicago area. Other tornadoes were also reported in parts of Canada, Michigan, and New York as well.
A row of houses was destroyed, but no one was killed. A strong F3 (T7) Tornado hit the small town Micheln in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on 23 July 2004 leaving 6 people injured and more than 250 buildings massively damaged. Another notable Tornado was a strong wedge Multivortex Tornado that hit Bützow in Germany, on 5 May 2015. The Tornado was nearly a mile wide.
On November 17, 1957 an F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 13.2 miles away from the Carbon Hill city center killed 4 people and injured 15 people. An F3 tornado destroyed much of Carbon Hill on November 10, 2002. An EF1 (max speeds 86-110 mph) tornado quickly passed through Carbon Hill on April 12, 2020, part of the 2020 Easter tornado outbreak.
A tornado spawned by Typhoon Sepat touched down in Zhejiang Province, killing 13 people and injuring at least 62 others. More than 1,100 buildings were destroyed and 22,700 hectares of crops were damaged by the tornado. The tornado touched down around 11:30 pm local time near Wenzhou City. The half- mile (800 m) wide tornado tracked for 5 mi (8 km) before dissipating.
Many PDS tornado warnings and a rare tornado emergency in Alexandria, Louisiana were issued. An EF3 tornado struck Alexandria and areas outside of town, causing major damage and one fatality. Two more fatalities occurred in Lawrence County, Alabama as a result of an EF2 tornado that struck near Town Creek. EF3 tornadoes also caused severe damage in and around the towns of Sumrall and Laurel, Mississippi.
The Siren tornado was the outbreak's only fatal storm, killing two people and injuring another 16. Damages from the tornado were estimated at approximately US$10 million. The tornado caused the most damage in the village of Siren, where most structures were completely destroyed. 240 buildings were damaged or destroyed by the tornado, and over 100 firefighters helped rescue people trapped in buildings and clean up.
The tornado formed at 7 p.m. (CST) and moved erratically eastward for 8 miles before dissipating near the small town of Michigan Valley. The tornado was too small to be detected on radar, and eyewitnesses stated that the tornado was only 150 yards wide but had a multiple vortex structure. Some reported another tornado in the area although it was not confirmed by the National Weather Service.
This long track tornado also destroyed homes near Dunkerton and near the Waterloo Municipal Airport. That tornado killed nine people and was later rated an EF5, the first since the Greensburg, Kansas tornado. According to the SPC Storm Reports, 50 tornadoes have been reported throughout the day. At 4:55 pm, an EF3 tornado touched down in Lino Lakes, a northern suburb of the Minneapolis-St.
As they take cover, Jo's truck and DOROTHY I are both picked up and destroyed by the tornado. A second tornado is spotted. Jonas and his team are also moving to intercept the storm cell, which has at this point grown into an F2 tornado. However, Bill's intuition that the tornado will shift towards another direction sends them off seemingly in the right direction.
The 100 yard (91 m) wide tornado touched down on a dock before becoming a waterspout as it took a path across the river. The tornado passed near the Tappan Zee Bridge before crossing into Westchester County. Upon entering Westchester, it was the eighth tornado ever recorded in the county. The tornado hit the town of Sleepy Hollow, New York, around 3:37 p.m.
Tornado activity then ramped up with six tornadoes touching down at the same time with three of them causing casualties. A destructive F2 tornado moved through Boone County, injuring four. Meanwhile, an F1 tornado injured four in Shell Knob, Missouri. The worst of the bunch was a large, long-tracked, F2 tornado that passed through Gold Creek, Southeastern Beryl, Vilonia, and Northwestern El Paso, injuring 12.
An outbreak of 14 tornadoes struck Alabama and Georgia. The first tornado was a long-tracked F3 tornado hit the northern side of Opelika, Alabama before striking Hamilton, Blue Mountain Valley, and Manchester, Georgia, injuring seven on a 51 mile path. After that, another F3 tornado hit Ohatchee, Wellington, Angel, Prices, and Piedmont, Alabama, injuring 26. Next, an F2 tornado struck Blakely, Georgia, injuring two.
A brief F1 tornado injured one in rural Ware County, Georgia. North of East Stone Gap, Virginia in Northeastern Big Stone Gap, three people were injured by another brief F1 tornado. Another brief, but strong F2 tornado injured one southeast of Middletown, Indiana. The final tornado of the outbreak was an F1 storm that injured one southeast of Horneytown, North Carolina north of High Point.
The first tornado formed northwest of New Cordell, Oklahoma at 4:17 pm (CDT). The tornado damaged a mobile home and several barns as it moved northeast over a six-mile path. The tornado was photographed 5 times by a storm chaser team during a project conducted by the National Severe Storms Laboratory and Mississippi State University. The tornado turned out to be a significant F2.
Thankfully, no deaths or injuries were recorded. Storm chasers would go on to nickname the tornado the "Wizard of Oz" tornado because of its unusual ropey shape, which was very resemblant to the twister in the aforementioned movie. In fact, the tornado had no prominent curve at the top as its funnel – much like the Wizard of Oz tornado – as it neared its decaying stage.
Less, but still destructive tornado activity occurred on the final two days of the outbreak. On May 11, an early-morning F2 tornado caused heavy damage southwest of Monticello, Illinois. The next day, a half-mile wide F3 tornado hit the Southern Birmingham suburb of Shannon, Alabama, injuring five. The final tornado of the outbreak then struck areas northeast Salisbury, Connecticut, causing F2 damage.
A small, but deadly outbreak of eight tornadoes hit areas from Nebraska to Connecticut. The worst tornado was an F2 twister that hit Crofton, Menominee, and St. Helena, Nebraska, killing one and injuring two. Later, a brief but strong F3 tornado damaged areas east of Yankton, South Dakota. The final tornado took place early the next morning, when quarter-mile wide F2 tornado struck Zearing, Iowa.
An outbreak sequence of 10 tornadoes struck the US. It started with an early- morning F1 tornado west of Prescott Valley, Arizona on November 2 before the outbreak mostly focused on Texas. On November 3, an F2 tornado damaged Corral City. Another F2 tornado then grew to mile-wide and damaged Center Point and Northern Comfort. A third F2 tornado then struck Northern Bowie.
Then, in Mississippi, a long-tracked F2 tornado caused major damage while just missing several towns in Sharkey and Humphrey Counties. Later, another F2 tornado hit Belmont just west of the Alabama border, injuring one. A long-tracked F3 tornado moved through Ecru, Alpine, and Geeville, and Southwestern Booneville, injuring one as well. Later, a large, wide F2 tornado moved directly through Adamsville, Tennessee, injuring three.
The NWS dropped the PDS tag at 7:54 pm CST, but continued the tornado warning as a tornado was still possible. At 8:03 pm CST, the NWS put out an additional update that cancelled the warning for Baldwin County while stating that a possible tornado "was located over West Pensacola...moving northeast at 50 mph." Seven minutes later, the tornado touched down.
In the lower image, where the camera is facing the opposite direction, the sun is behind the tornado, giving it a dark appearance. Lighting conditions are a major factor in the appearance of a tornado. A tornado which is "back-lit" (viewed with the sun behind it) appears very dark. The same tornado, viewed with the sun at the observer's back, may appear gray or brilliant white.
The second tornado, also touching down in Galveston, inflicted roof damage to many businesses, homes, and apartment complexes. The third tornado, spawned in League City, toppled several trees and a flag pole. In Chambers County a tornado near Kemah inflicted damage to a beach house. Another tornado in the county spawned in downtown Baytown shattered windows at a hospital, a mall, and store windows.
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Radar loop around the time of the Murfreesboro, North Carolina EF0 tornado that prompted a PDS tornado warning. A tornado outbreak occurred as Hurricane Isaias moved up the East Coast of the United States, with 109 tornado warnings being issued across 12 states. On August 3, an EF2 tornado downed numerous large trees and caused damage to homes in Bald Head Island and Southport, North Carolina. Later, a waterspout moved ashore and caused EF0 damage to multiple homes in Garden City Beach, South Carolina, injuring one.
An EF1 tornado also caused damage to multiple homes in Leland, North Carolina. Early on August 4, a large and destructive EF3 tornado south of Windsor, North Carolina obliterated multiple homes and mobile homes, completely destroyed a site-built home, and tossed several vehicles, killing two and injuring 14. It was the strongest tornado spawned by a tropical cyclone since 2005. A tornado that touched down near Murfreesboro, North Carolina generated a large TDS, prompting a PDS tornado warning, though only EF0 damage occurred.
Three people were fatally injured when a long-tracked EF2 tornado destroyed two mobile homes south of Haughton, Louisiana, and an EF1 tornado killed one person near Nacogdoches, Texas when a large tree fell onto a mobile home. An EF2 tornado struck Rome, Mississippi, causing significant damage and destroying the local post office. An EF2 tornado also struck Union Grove, Alabama, significantly damaging a school building in the community. Another school also sustained major damage near Kershaw, South Carolina, as a result of another EF2 tornado.
Afterward, the tornado weakened, turned to the right, and lifted before reforming into a new tornado, as no structural damage occurred and damage to vegetation was lighter than elsewhere along the path. The second tornado then re-intensified before badly damaging many farms in Barry and Kent Counties before dissipating near Lowell. In all, the tornado (or tornado family) destroyed 29 homes, one of which was totally leveled in F4 fashion but could not be rated as such due to lack of information about construction quality.
By the time the tornado lifted northeast of Birmingham, it had left behind a path of destruction of through Greene, Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties. The tornado killed 64 people, including six University of Alabama students. It caused approximately $2.4 billion of property damage, surpassing the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado as the costliest single tornado in United States history at that time. Less than a month later, however, this number was surpassed by the Joplin, Missouri EF5 tornado, which caused $2.8 billion in damage.
Remains of a house that was completely swept away by the Crittenden tornado. This violent wedge tornado was spawned by the same supercell thunderstorm that produced the EF4 Henryville tornado. While not a long-tracked tornado, the damage it produced was very intense along portions of its 9.85-mile long path through parts of northern Kentucky. After the parent supercell had crossed into Kentucky and the Henryville tornado had lifted, the storm began to rotate significantly again as it approached the Grant County town of Crittenden.
The Waco tornado was not the only deadly and damaging tornado in the outbreak sequence. On the same day as the Waco disaster, a high-end F4 tornado struck the Texas city of San Angelo, causing catastrophic damage, killing 13 people, and injuring more than 150. The tornado swept away numerous homes and damaged a school, but students inside escaped serious injuries. On May 9, a long-tracked F3 tornado destroyed a large swath of Hebron, Nebraska, and killed five people in the area.
The tornado downed many power lines and utility poles as well, and there was widespread loss of livestock. Entering Whitewater State Park, the tornado splintered "hundreds" of trees, and buildings in the park were badly damaged. After destroying a steel bridge near Crystal Spring, the tornado apparently dissipated into straight-line winds, though Grazulis suggested that tornado damage may have continued to Cochrane, Wisconsin. Reports indicated that the storm crossed the Mississippi River into Wisconsin, where tornado activity definitely resumed northeast of Cochrane and ended near Brownville.
An intense supercell thunderstorm tracked near the Little Rock area and a tornado emergency was declared for the city of Vilonia. A large EF2 wedge tornado struck the town, subsequently causing severe damage and killing four people. A strong EF3 tornado had also struck the Hot Springs Village area earlier that evening; that tornado caused severe damage and resulted in one death. Later that evening, another EF2 tornado caused extensive damage to both a school building and Little Rock Air Force Base as well.
A Santa Fe train was robbed by the Dalton Gang in this locale on June 1, 1892. On April 26, 1991, a large F4 tornado touched down within one mile of the town. The tornado was rated F4 because of the minimal damage that occurred. But the tornado held the record for the highest recorded wind speed of 270 mph until the Bridge Creek, Oklahoma tornado of May 3, 1999, in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, which had a wind gust of 318 mph.
The tornado produced 500 injuries, the most done by any tornado this date. However, this total may have not been produced by a single tornado, for of the 38 total fatalities, many were north or south of a straight path, suggesting the event was in fact a tornado family. One check from a community in Northeast Alabama, where four people died, was carried to Athens, Tennessee. Additionally, a live chicken was found in a dresser drawer one week after the tornado hit Jackson County.
As tornado activity wound down in the Midwest that evening, it quickly began to pick up in Alabama. An F2 tornado struck Leighton, Wheeler Darn Village, and Rogersville, killing one and injuring another. Later, another F2 tornado passed through just east of the killer tornado, causing mostly heavy tree damage in rural Lawrence and Limestone Counties. Just after midnight on April 6, the final strong F3 tornado of the outbreak sequence tore through Albertville, the west sides of Hustleville, Asbury, and Grove Oak, and Section, injuring one.
An intense, localized outbreak of five tornadoes hit Florida and Georgia. It started with a brief, but violent F4 tornado striking Bereah, Florida (although some experts rated it as an F3 tornado due to poor construction of the structures), injuring seven. Later, an F3 tornado (some experts rate it as an F2 tornado) tore through Northern Anastasia Island, Florida, injuring nine. Another F3 storm then became the most damaging tornado of the day when it moved directly through Anglevillas and Fort Pierce, Florida, injuring 20.
Within minutes, this storm quickly grew and intensified as it moved closer to the city. The tornado passed directly over the city at low-end EF3 strength. Turning northward, the tornado dissipated about north of Mapleton. A separate EF2 tornado struck the town of Early, where considerable damage occurred to homes and businesses. Cottonville, Wisconsin EF2 tornado damage, one year later Tracking northeastward, the supercell moved into Ida County, another tornado touched down around 0115 UTC (8:15 pm CDT) to the west of Arthur.
The first fatal tornado of the outbreak was this strong F2 tornado–which was likely a tornado family–that touched down north of Clayton, Alabama. It headed due east, clipping the northwest side of Eufaula before hitting the town of Howe and moving into Georgia. Throughout Barbour County, Alabama, the tornado injured three and caused $2,500 in damage, although what was damaged in the county is unknown. The tornado then entered Quitman County, Georgia well to the north of Georgetown and began to curve northeastward.
The word tornado comes from the Spanish word tornado (past participle of to turn, or to have torn). Tornadoes' opposite phenomena are the widespread, straight-line derechoes (, from , "straight"). A tornado is also commonly referred to as a "twister" or the old-fashioned colloquial term cyclone. The term "cyclone" is used as a synonym for "tornado" in the often-aired 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The term "twister" is also used in that film, along with being the title of the 1996 tornado-related film Twister.
An EF2 tornado caused major damage to businesses in the Courtland, Virginia area, while two tornadoes, rated EF0 and EF1, also hit Suffolk, Virginia, with the EF1 tornado causing considerable damage in the downtown area. Around sunrise, a high-end EF2 tornado caused severe damage to homes and injured five people near Palmer, before causing less intense damage in and around Kilmarnock, Virginia, injuring five. As that tornado dissipated, another EF2 tornado struck just outside of Mardela Springs, Maryland, downing trees and damaging a few homes, one of which was pushed off its foundation. Yet another EF2 tornado destroyed chicken houses in George Island Landing, Maryland.
This extremely long-tracked tornado, which was likely a tornado family according to Grazulis, started near Delsher, where the first tornado (F4+) touched down and moved northeast before turning due east and striking the north edge of Cygnet, where homes were swept away at possible F5 intensity, and eight people were killed. This first tornado destroyed a steel and concrete bridge as it passed near Jerry City. The second tornado (F3) touched down east of Kimball, passed south of Ceylon and ended near Vermilion, destroying multiple homes along the path and killing one person. The third tornado (F3) touched down east of Elyria, and tore across Western Cleveland.
A skipping tornado is a process tornado (or a series of tornadoes) which has a discontinuous damage path. There are several possible causes for this phenomenon: # The tornado actually lifting from the surface (which technically may make the two damage paths separate tornadoes) # The tornado passing over a portion of land where there are no structures or vegetation (i.e. damage indicators) capable of showing damage # The tornado temporarily weakening so that the winds are below the damage threshold of the structures or vegetation being affected. Historically, skipping referred to the breaks in the damage path of what was considered as a single longer track tornado.
An unusually intense squall line with embedded strong tornadoes struck Oregon and Washington on Wednesday, April 5, 1972. Of the four tornadoes, the most catastrophic event was a deadly F3 tornado that struck Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, the first F3 tornado to strike Oregon since June 3, 1894. Dubbed the 1972 Portland-Vancouver Tornado, the tornado tracked across the heavily populated Portland–Vancouver metropolitan area, causing heavy damage, killing six people, and injuring 300 while causing $25.25 million (1972 USD) in damage. It was the deadliest tornado in the United States in 1972 and remains the deadliest tornado in the history of the Pacific Northwest.
The fourth tornado formed near the unincorporated town of Leota in southwest Minnesota, spawning a "maxi" tornado that stayed on the ground for almost an hour and a half and did substantial damage to the cities of Chandler and Lake Wilson. In Chandler, the property damage was estimated at over fifteen million dollars. This tornado was classified as an F5 tornado on the Fujita Scale and was the only F5 tornado documented in the United States in 1992. Another tornado formed in South Dakota later in the day and made its way to Minnesota where it struck the town of Chandler for the second time, along with Colton and Dell Rapids.
The Central United States tornado outbreak of March 13, 1990, was one of the most violent outbreaks ever documented in March (second only to the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 in terms of violent tornadoes and the March 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence in terms of the total number of tornadoes reported). Numerous tornadoes touched down across Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa. Two tornadic thunderstorms with exceptional life spans/tornado families were observed, one of which produced an F4 tornado in eastern Nebraska that was on the ground for over . The other produced an extensive tornado family in southern Kansas that included two F5 tornadoes.
The deadliest tornado of the 2010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak moved across extreme eastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas, tracking and damaging the unincorporated community of Cincinnati, Arkansas. The first tornado warning associated was issued at 12:00 UTC for portions of Adair County in Oklahoma and Benton and Washington counties in Arkansas by the National Weather Service Tulsa, Oklahoma. At around the same time, damaging winds estimated at around tore the roof off of a barn southwest of Westville, Oklahoma; these winds were likely a result of inflow caused by the developing tornado. Post-tornado survey teams concluded that the tornado touched down five minutes later northeast of Westville.
Tornado pushed Tetanus Booster all around the arena, but they put up a good fight, fighting back with their spinning drum weapon, actually breaking the electronic lifter so it couldn't lift, so Tornado could only ram with it. Tornado hit the Pit Release button fairly early on, but Tetanus Booster kept managing to escape the pit at the last moment when Tornado pushed them towards it. Tornado then let the House Robots do the work, and pushed them into Sir Killalot, then chasing them when they escaped into Cassius Chrome. When Tetanus Booster escaped this time, Tornado got in underneath and finally pitted it, qualifying for the semifinals again.
That tornado started just northeast of Tuscaloosa during the evening hours, demolishing numerous structures south and west of the Birmingham metro area. Since records have been kept in 1950, the Tuscaloosa tornado is the second deadliest tornado in December, tied with an F4 tornado near Murphysboro, Illinois on December 18, 1957, and behind the Vicksburg, Mississippi F5 tornado on December 5, 1953 which killed 38 people.Tornado History Project December tornadoes 1950-2009 The 2000 Tuscaloosa tornado was part of a supercell thunderstorm that developed across Mississippi before traveling through western Alabama, then near the Birmingham region before dropping more tornadoes in St. Clair and Etowah counties.
Extensive damage surveys by the National Weather Service office in Nashville confirmed that all 22 deaths along the path (which was revised downward from 24 due to double-counting) were caused by a single long-track EF3 tornado. The tornado path was long and up to wide at times. The devastation was described by Governor Phil Bredesen as "It looks like the Lord took a Brillo pad and scrubbed the ground" while surveying by helicopter. This tornado was the deadliest single tornado to strike Middle Tennessee in over 75 years, and the deadliest single US tornado since the Evansville Tornado of November 2005 (which killed 24 people).
A map of the tornado paths in the 1974 Super Outbreak This article lists various tornado records. The most "extreme" tornado in recorded history was the Tri-State Tornado, which spread through parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. It is considered an F5 on the Fujita Scale, even though tornadoes were not ranked on any scale at the time. It holds records for longest path length at , longest duration at about 3½ hours, and fastest forward speed for a significant tornado at anywhere on Earth. In addition, it is the deadliest single tornado in United States history with 695 fatalities.
Officially, the widest tornado on record is the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013 with a width of at its peak. This is the width found by the National Weather Service based on preliminary data from University of Oklahoma RaXPol mobile radar that also sampled winds of which was used to upgrade the tornado to EF5. However, it was revealed that these winds did not impact any structures, and as a result the tornado was downgraded to EF3 based on damage. The F4 Hallam, Nebraska tornado during the outbreak of May 22, 2004 was the previous official record holder for the widest tornado, surveyed at wide.
On April 27, 2011 There was a deadly tornado that affected Hackleburg and Phil Campbell. The tornado was an extremely violent and long-tracked EF5 wedge tornado that devastated several towns in rural northern Alabama, before tearing through the northern suburbs of Huntsville and causing damage in rural portions of southern Tennessee on the afternoon and early evening of Wednesday, April 27, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado of the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. The tornado reached a maximum width of 1.25 miles (2.01 km) and was estimated to have had peak winds of 210 mph (340 km/h).
The destructive tornado moved across the area producing severe damage and numerous injuries according to WLBT coverage. That afternoon, Mississippi State University spotters confirmed another large tornado in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama and the second tornado emergency of the outbreak was issued. ABC 33/40 coverage reported that the tornado was 3/4 mile (1.2 km) in width. Two additional tornado emergencies were also issued that afternoon for other storms in Attala County, Mississippi, and Choctaw County, Alabama, and a fifth such issuance occurred near Leakesville, Mississippi, that evening, where a large EF3 wedge tornado produced severe damage and 4 fatalities.
During these drills, the National Weather Service issues test tornado warnings, and local Emergency Alert Systems and/or NOAA Weather Radio (normally as a Required Weekly Test or Required Monthly Test; Live Tornado Warning Codes can only be used if a waiver from the FCC is granted since "Live Code Testing" is prohibited per regulations) are activated along with outdoor warning sirens. Schools and businesses may also conduct a tornado drill simultaneously. A tornado drill is a procedure of practicing to take cover in a specified location in the event that a tornado strikes an area. This safety drill is an important element of tornado preparedness.
During these drills, the National Weather Service issues test tornado warnings, and local Emergency Alert Systems and/or NOAA Weather Radio (normally as a Required Weekly Test or Required Monthly Test; Live Tornado Warning Codes can only be used if a waiver from the FCC is granted since "Live Code Testing" is prohibited per regulations) are activated along with outdoor warning sirens. Schools and businesses may also conduct a tornado drill simultaneously. A tornado drill is a procedure of practicing to take cover in a specified location in the event that a tornado strikes an area. This safety drill is an important element of tornado preparedness.
A large outbreak of tornadoes impacted the Great Plains states on April 14, and several PDS Tornado Warnings were issued during the outbreak. Initially, most of the tornadoes were small or remained over open country, though more significant tornado activity began to develop throughout the day. A high-end EF2 tornado struck Creston, Iowa, flipping vehicles and causing major structural damage to homes and other buildings in town. Another EF2 wedge tornado struck Thurman, Iowa, damaging 75% of the town. In Nebraska, a strong EF2 tornado destroyed outbuildings and badly damaged a home near Cook, while a large and violent EF4 tornado leveled a home and debarked trees near Marquette, Kansas.
The Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho was a historic tornado outbreak and derecho that began on the afternoon of May 30 and extended throughout May 31, 1998, across a large portion of the northern half of the United States and southern Ontario from southeastern Montana east and southeastward to the Atlantic Ocean. The initial tornado outbreak, including the devastating Spencer tornado, hit southeast South Dakota on the evening of May 30. The Spencer tornado was the most destructive and the second-deadliest tornado in South Dakota history. A total of 13 people were killed; 7 by tornadoes and 6 by the derecho.
This early viral video spread the myth that sheltering underneath an overpass was safer during a tornado. The television crew was hit by a F2 tornado.
An EF1 tornado touched down in the Belfast Lough area of Northern Ireland. This was the third tornado in the area in the last six months.
Tornado pushed Thor around the arena and into the House Robots, causing one of Thor's side panels to come off. Tornado won on a judges' decision.
Six people were killed in Alabama by two tornadoes. One F3 tornado killed four in Dallas County, while an F2 tornado killed two in Montgomery County.
An F2 tornado tore through the northwest side of Richmond, Virginia, injuring 12. A destructive, but non- fatal F1 tornado also hit Surf City, North Carolina.
The first killer tornado in the database struck north of Vandervort in Polk County, Arkansas. The brief, but strong F3 tornado killed one and injured another.
A brief, but fatal F2 tornado struck the southeastern side of Robertsville, Ohio, killing one and injuring three. Another brief F2 tornado struck Southern Sharpsville, Pennsylvania.
The third and final tornado was a brief, weak F0 tornado east of Yeager. In the end, the three Oklahoma tornadoes killed two and injured nine.
The second tornado, an F2, did not cause as much damage as the first tornado, as the funnel remained aloft for most of its life span.
In Oregon City, Oregon a possible EF0 tornado was reported causing damage to some trees, cars and structures. The following day, another tornado of unknown strength touched down in Estacada in the Eagle Creek area.EF-Zero tornado in Oregon City, KOIN Local6.com, October 27, 2009.
Tornado Zadar is a supporter group from Zadar, Croatia. The official name of this civil association is in Croatian Udruga navijača Tornado Zadar, which translated means Civil association of the supporters Tornado Zadar. The association is registered with the Croatian NGO register under the number 13000768.
Joe and Lee drive towards the tornado with the bomb and jump out of the car just as it is sucked into the tornado. The bomb explodes dissipating the tornado and warming the atmosphere enough to disperse the freak weather, preventing any more tornados from forming.
Within minutes, the tornado turned northeast and soon passed directly over Interstate 40 at around 6:42 p.m. CDT (2342 UTC). Shortly thereafter, the tornado lifted off the ground as it neared Banner Road. Overall, the tornado was on the ground for 40 minutes along a path.
The TORRO tornado intensity scale (or T-Scale) is a scale measuring tornado intensity between T0 and T11. It was proposed by Terence Meaden of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), a meteorological organisation in the United Kingdom, as an extension of the Beaufort scale.
Tornado Champion tells Firestorm about how he and his alter ego became fused with the Red Tornado android, and Firestorm replaces both sentient beings in the android body. Red Tornado awakens, and only Firestorm knows his true nature.Justice League of America Vol. 1 #193 (August 1981).
Further to the north, minor EF0 damage occurred near David Jay Perry Airport before the tornado dissipated. Large amounts of debris from this tornado reportedly fell from the sky in Norman. Overall, the tornado was on the ground for . 61 people were injured, though no fatalities occurred.
A widespread outbreak of 18 tornadoes ranged from Georgia to Ohio, injuring 18 people. An F2 tornado injured four people southwest of Pinhook, Missouri. A suspected F1 tornado touched down in the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky. Another F2 tornado injured four people near Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Three tornadoes caused injuries in Mississippi. On December 28, an F3 tornado moved directly through Laurel, injuring 25. At the same time, a brief, but damaging F1 tornado injured two southeast of Burns. Early the next day, an F2 tornado struck areas west of Shuqualak, injuring nine.
An outbreak of 28 tornadoes struck the Great Plains and Arkansas. On March 24, an F1 tornado injured four people in Frisco, Texas. Later, an F3 tornado moved through Centerton, Bentonville, and Leetown, Arkansas, injuring four. An F2 tornado struck Lanagan and Longview, Missouri, injuring one.
A total of three (downgraded from the originally reported 4) people were killed as a result of the tornado and at least 200 people were injured from severe weather across the state. The outbreak included the first killer tornado in Massachusetts since the 1995 Great Barrington tornado.
The Easter Week 2006 tornado outbreak sequence was a tornado outbreak sequence during the days leading up to Easter and continued into the first week after Easter. It was the third major outbreak of April 2006, which had been an unusually busy month for tornado activity.
The tornado was on the ground for about 20 miles. It reached a maximum width of 200 yards. It was Louisiana's deadliest tornado since February 21, 1971, when 10 people were killed east of Delhi. Three additional tornadoes touched down besides the Caddo-Bossier Parish tornado.
The 1926 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team represented the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1926 Southern Conference football season. The Tornado was coached by William Alexander in his seventh year as head coach, compiling a record of 4–5.
Several mobile homes were destroyed and numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted. Five injuries occurred from this tornado. An EF3 tornado touched down in south Albertville.
The song "Tornado '87" by The Rural Alberta Advantage, on their 2011 album Departing, was inspired by singer Nils Edenloff's experience as a child surviving the tornado.
A powerful F4 tornado destroyed the small town of Fray Marcos, killing 11 and injuring 100. It is the worst tornado recorded in the history of Uruguay.
The tornado then caused tree damage before dissipating on Alfadale Road north of Route 66. The tornado had a maximum estimated width of and injured 19 people.
The tornado had a maximum width of around the time it reached peak intensity. The tornado was rated EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale and traveled for .
The RFD initiates the tornado, occludes around the mesocyclone, and when it wraps completely around, cuts off the inflow causing death of the low- level mesocyclone (or "tornado cyclone") and tornadolysis. Therefore, in most cases, the RFD is responsible for both the birth and the death of a tornado. Usually, but not always, the dry slot occlusion is visible (assuming one's line of sight is not blocked by precipitation) throughout the tornado life cycle. The wall cloud withers and will often be gone by the time the tornado dissipates.
Damage in Pachuta consisted of trees downed and moderate roof damage. North-northeast of Pachuta, the tornado finally dissipated at County Road 320, after causing some additional minor EF0 tree limb damage. The tornado was estimated by the NWS to have been wide, making it the widest tornado in Mississippi state history, and the third-widest on record in the United States, just behind the 2004 Hallam tornado and the 2013 El Reno tornado. A total of eight fatalities and at least 95 injuries occurred along the path.
A small outbreak of 16 mostly weak tornadoes occurred across Minnesota on August 14\. The strongest tornado occurred in Grant County, where an EF2 tornado tore down a small tower and damaged homes, trees, power lines, and corn fields. An EF1 tornado northwest of Hoffman damaged a house, an outbuilding, and trees we well. An EF0 tornado caused tree and power pole damage in the small town of Farwell, and damage to trees and outbuildings occurred in the small community of Lawler as a result of an EF1 tornado.
This violent tornado outbreak of 55 tornadoes took place on April 26, 1991, killing 24 people and injuring hundreds more. The killer Andover tornado was rated F5, while four others were rated F4, including the monstrous Red Rock tornado. At the time, the Red Rock tornado generated the highest wind speeds, detected by mobile doppler radar, until the May 3, 1999, Bridge Creek-Moore F5 tornado. This is also the outbreak from which the infamous video was shot by a news crew hiding under an overpass in Kansas.
Another notable non- season tornado was where a tornado struck the area of McLean County, Illinois. Even though the tornado was during a winter month, it blew 20 railroad cars off their tracks, and hauled a camper over 100 yards (91 m). During the winter months of the year, tornadoes have been known to hit the Southern United States and Southeastern United States the most, but have hit other areas as well. One notable recent example of a winter tornado outbreak was the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak on February 5 and February 6, 2008.
In the first fight of the Grand Final, Storm 2 met reigning champion and fellow rambot Tornado. Storm 2 dominated the fight, but towards the end, with Tornado running inverted, Refbot activated the pit and Tornado drove into it. Team Storm and the crowd cheered thinking the match was over, but the pit didn't detonate its pyrotechnics signifying a fallen robot, the match didn't end, and the pit floor rose back up, allowing Tornado to escape. In the TV edit, Tornado was shown to escape the pit just before it descended.
This large, strong, long- tracked F3 tornado–which was most likely a tornado family–first touched down in Southern Marshalltown and immediately became strong, damaging numerous structures. The damage to the town alone was estimated at $1 million and eyewitnesses reported that tornado had more than one funnel as it passed through town. From there the tornado moved generally eastward at up to on a discontinuous path that may have included more than one tornado. It first passed south Garwin before crossing the Hinkle Creek directly into Garrison.
In Tollesboro, Kentucky, an EF1 tornado caused a modest amount of damage. A barn was destroyed with another damaged, three mobile homes were lifted off their foundation and minor structural damage occurred to homes and mobile homes. Also on June 16, a large tornado and possible satellite tornado were observed and documented by the TWISTEX research team just north of Menno, South Dakota. The tornado itself had no reported damage, but the associated winds on the south side of the tornado damaged a few buildings, trees, and signs in town.
The 1883 Rochester tornado was an F5 (estimated) tornado that hit Rochester, Minnesota on Tuesday, August 21, 1883. The tornado was one in a series of tornadoes that hit Southeast Minnesota on that day, causing at least 37 deaths and over 200 injuries, and it was the impetus for the creation of the Mayo Clinic. On July 21, two other tornadoes struck the area. An F4 tornado was one of a family of tornadoes that killed 4 people near Dodge Center (15 miles west of Rochester), and an F2 tornado devastated Elgin, northeast of Rochester.
By late that day, the shortwave trough tracked northeastward into New England, ending the severe weather threat. Between January 29–30, a total of 65 tornadoes were confirmed, making the event the fourth-largest winter tornado outbreak and third-largest January tornado outbreak on record. It was also the largest January tornado outbreak in Middle Tennessee on record and the second-largest tornado outbreak for any calendar month there. The strongest tornado, an EF3, impacted portions of Adairsville, Georgia, causing significant damage to an industrial building and several homes.
The most notable and photogenic tornado of the outbreak was the one that occurred at Van Wert, Ohio. Van Wert has been hit before. The last time the town was struck by a tornado of F4 magnitude was the 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. The November 10, 2002 tornado, which was also rated a F4, destroyed a theater around 3:30 PM. The walls and roof were damaged or destroyed by the tornado and three cars were thrown into the front seats, which minutes earlier had been completely filled with people.
The 1927 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado was a powerful and devastating tornado that struck St. Louis, Missouri on Thursday, September 29, 1927, at 1:00pm. The tornado is estimated to have reach at least F3 and possible F4 intensity on the Fujita scale. The 2nd deadliest tornado to occur in the St. Louis metropolitan area, it caused at minimum 72–79 deaths and injured more than 550 people all within a seven-to-twelve-mile long, 100–600 yard wide path. At one time it was the 2nd costliest tornado in US history.
The main Pilger tornado was seen roping out and rotating around the perimeter of this new tornado as it developed. The tornado then weakened somewhat as it veered sharply to the north, destroying outbuildings and toppling power poles at EF2 intensity. Continuing due-north, the tornado maintained EF2 strength as it tore roofs off of multiple homes and destroyed numerous barns and outbuildings. The tornado then re-strengthened to EF4 intensity as it crossed 854th Rd, sweeping away several farm homes at that location and debarking multiple trees.
A diagram of tornado alley based on 1 tornado or more per decade. Rough location (red), and its contributing weather systems Tornado Alley is a colloquial term for the area of the United States where tornadoes are most frequent. The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. Tornado climatologists distinguish peaks in activity in certain areas and storm chasers have long recognized the Great Plains tornado belt.
Wind estimates in the heavily damaged areas were as high as 130 to 150 mph. While the time of year and location of the tornado were not unusual, the west to northwest path of the tornado was highly unusual, and the tornado occurred earlier in the day than is typical for the area. The storm was preceded by golf-ball to baseball sized hail and heavy rain, with hail damaging a much larger area than the actual tornado. Home in Windsor, CO severely damaged by tornado on May 22, 2008.
A trailer was rolled on its side and a nearby home sustained siding and shingle damage. Afterwards, the tornado struck a horse farm where it destroyed a small barn and damaged a stable. Before dissipating, the tornado blew out the windows in the garage of one home. No injuries were reported as a result of the tornado and damages amounted to $75,000. The tornado was rated as a high-end EF0 by the National Weather Service. The sixth and first killer tornado of the outbreak touched down around 3:10 a.m.
Another surveillance camera showed the tornado ripping the roof off a house across a street before the video feed was lost. After the tornado, Governor Chet Culver declared Butler and Black Hawk counties disaster areas due to the extensive storm damage. The tornado was the first F5 or EF5 tornado in Iowa since one hit Jordan on June 13, 1976 and the second deadliest in Iowa since official record-keeping began in 1950. The deadliest tornado affected the Charles City area on May 15, 1968 and killed 13 while producing F5 damage.
A tornado, marked by debris swirl on the ground and connected to a thundercloud, with no condensation funnel It is commonly and mistakenly thought that if the condensation funnel of a tornado does not reach the ground, then the tornado cannot cause substantial damage. This is another deadly myth. A tornado appears to be on the ground only when its condensation funnel descends to the surface, but this is misleading. The circular, violent surface winds, not the condensation funnel, are what both define the tornado and cause the tornado's damage.
The tornado outbreak sequence of May 21-26, 2011 was one of the largest tornado outbreaks on record which affected the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States. Most of the tornadoes developed in a corridor from Lake Superior southwest to central Texas; isolated tornadoes occurred in other areas. An especially destructive tornado destroyed one-third of Joplin, Missouri, resulting in 158 deaths and over 1,000 injuries. The Joplin tornado is the deadliest in the U.S. since April 9, 1947, when an intense tornado killed 181 in the Woodward, Oklahoma area.
The first tornado of the outbreak to cause more than one death was a long-tracked, high-end EF2 wedge tornado that struck the small town of Vilonia in Faulkner County, Arkansas, around 7:30 p.m. CDT (00:30 UTC) on April 25. A tornado warning was issued for the area roughly 30 minutes prior to the tornado's arrival, and the relatively low loss of life was attributed to this lead time. A tornado emergency was declared at 7:24 p.m. CDT (00:24 UTC) for the city shortly before the tornado struck.
Another wave of significant tornado activity occurred on May 9 throughout an area extending from Nebraska to Texas. This included a large EF3 tornado that caused major damage and killed one person near Cisco, Texas. Destructive tornado activity continued on May 10, as a high-end EF2 tornado struck the town of Delmont, South Dakota, where severe structural damage and multiple injuries occurred. Later that evening, an EF1 multiple- vortex tornado struck Lake City, Iowa, where homes were damaged, trees and power lines were downed, and the local high school had its roof torn off.
Tornado History Project - Tornado MapOur Story, Vol V - Colfax tornado cuts deadly swath Severe damage was observed in Cedar Falls, Tainter Lake, and Northwestern Colifax. Many homes were destroyed, some of which were swept away (although the construction of these homes were questionable, causing some experts to rate the tornado as an F4). Cars were picked up and thrown, one of which was found wrapped around the side of a small steel-and- concrete bridge that collapsed during the tornado. Telephone poles were snapped and trees were debarked as well.
In the early hours of January 27, a tornado struck Burrum Heads south of Bundaberg, whilst radar imagery showed "possible tornado activity" on Bribie Island. The ninth tornado was reported at Mooloolaba, which swept through a housing estate, uprooting trees and causing minor damage. As a result of the tornadoes, the entirety of Southeast Queensland, including Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast, was placed under a tornado watch for January 27. With five confirmed and another four suspected tornadoes, this was the largest tornado event on record in Australia.
EF4 damage to a house that was completely leveled by the Hattiesburg, Mississippi tornado. As a large and powerful area of low pressure moved across the northern Plains, powerful severe thunderstorms developed across a trailing cold front. These storms, located across Louisiana and Mississippi primarily, prompted many tornado warnings. Shortly after 5:00 pm CST (2300 UTC), a large and extremely dangerous tornado was confirmed southwest of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; this wedge tornado, documented by locals and storm chasers, moved through the city after prompting a tornado emergency for the surrounding locations.
Through mid-April, the season had been one of the least active in the historical record (see graphic above right). Two very large tornado outbreaks in late April ended the slow period, pushing April activity to near normal. May, which is typically the most active month for tornado activity, was somewhat above normal, as several larger outbreaks were spread throughout the month. June was a very active month with at least one isolated tornado activity on most days and two major tornado outbreaks plus several smaller outbreaks resulting in well over 400 tornado reports.
A tornado outbreak sequence caused significant tornado activity for six consecutive days in the Midwestern United States. The first significant tornado was an F3 storm on the evening of June 21 that severely damaged or destroyed more than 100 homes and businesses in Salina, Kansas, caused minor damage to more than 500, and injured 60 people. An F2 tornado in the early morning of June 22 destroyed a trailer and damaged homes and barns in Furnas County, Nebraska, killing one person. An F4 tornado in Missouri on June 22 touched down in Clark National Forest.
Other strong tornadoes occurred as far north as Nebraska, including an EF2 tornado that tore the roof and some exterior walls from a home near Nehawka and injured one person. An EF1 tornado also caused minor damage in residential areas of Lincoln. Significant tornado activity continued on May 10, as several tornadoes moved across areas of western Kentucky, including an EF3 tornado that injured 10 people as it moved through the north edge of Mayfield, Kentucky, destroying numerous homes, vehicles, and businesses. Another tornado caused EF2 damage near Hartford.
Near Seneca, an EF2 tornado crumpled four metal truss towers, damaged homes, and destroyed outbuildings. Another EF2 tornado clipped the southwestern edge of Pontiac, heavily damaging a few businesses, snapping power poles, destroying a mobile home, and injuring four people. Significant tornado activity pushed into Indiana early the next morning, with an EF1 and an EF2 tornado causing structural damage to homes and destroying outbuildings near Huntington. In Ohio, a long-tracked EF1 tornado touched down in Waynesville before lifting in Wilmington, damaging trees, homes, outbuildings, and a convenience store along its path.
A tornado struck Dawuhan Village, Sirampog, Brebes on Saturday 17 November 2018 around 16.00 PM in West Indonesian Time around afternoon. According to Brebes BPBD, the tornado itself causing damage to 16 homes and a gymnasium. The next day, rain wrapped tornado struck Sumbermalang sub-district, situbondo regency causing significant damage to 270 houses in Baderan Village and Taman Kursi Village and several trees were downed, the tornado itself was accompanied with hailstorm. At same time in Karanganyar, a tornado damages 3 houses and 1 cattle pen in Sawit Hamlet, Wukirsawit Village, Jatiyoso Sub-district.
The tornado destroyed the roofs of two houses, one of which experienced damage to its walls. The tornado dissipated eight minutes after its path began, resulting in $200,000 in damage (2003 USD, $ USD) and only slight injuries A second tornado, rated F0 in the Fujita scale, occurred in southwestern Montgomery County. A small tornado with a width of only , it moved to the northwest and tore down a few trees that fell onto a mobile home, a house, and two cars. The tornado dissipated six minutes after its path began.
Just 10 minutes after that tornado touched down, an even longer-tracked F3 tornado touched down further to the east, striking Harrisville, Piney Woods, Walnut Grove, and Madden, killing one and injuring 34 on its 71-mile-path. Further to the south, an F2 tornado pummeled the towns of White Sand, Hillsdale, and Eastern Lumberton, injuring nine. Later that evening, another F2 tornado tracked through Gulf Hills, Vancleave, and Hurley, Mississippi, injuring one. A catastrophic F3 tornado then tore through the rural Mississippi counties of Perry, Greene, and Wayne, killing four and injuring 20.
A large, violent, long-tracked, half- mile wide F5 tornado (some experts rated it as an F4 tornado) tore through Wildwood, Southern Knapp, Cedar Falls, Tainter Lake, and Northwestern Colfax, killing 21 and injuring 74. Another large, violent, wide F4 tornado then hit Chippewa Falls northeast of Eau Claire, killing four and injuring 50. After that, an F3 tornado injured three in Cadott. Later, another violent, long tracked, half-mile wide F4 tornado struck Fall Creek before moving through rural Eau Claire, Clark, and Marathon Counties, killing four and injuring three.
Other strong tornadoes occurred as far north as Nebraska, including an EF2 tornado that tore the roof and some exterior walls from a home near Nehawka and injured one person. An EF1 tornado also caused minor damage in residential areas of Lincoln. Significant tornado activity continued on May 10, as several tornadoes moved across areas of western Kentucky, including an EF3 tornado that injured 10 people as it moved through the north edge of Mayfield, Kentucky, destroying numerous homes, vehicles, and businesses. Another tornado caused EF2 damage near Hartford.
The Bulahdelah Tornado was an intense tornado which occurred near the town of Bulahdelah ( north-northeast of Newcastle), New South Wales on 1 January 1970, and is thought to be the most destructive tornado ever documented in Australia. It is thought to have reached F4 or F5 intensity on the Fujita scale; however, no official rating has been made public. The tornado left a damage path long and 1-1.6 km (0.6-1 mi) wide through the Bulahdelah State Forest. It is estimated that the tornado destroyed over one million trees.
The tornado there was described as "[whirling] with amazing velocity and a most tremendous roar." It passed through a mostly-uninhabited part of the town; if the path were more than further north or south, the tornado "would have been fatal to a large number of families." The tornado traveled slightly north of east, and struck just one home. The inhabitants fled the house upon the sight of the tornado: two young boys, a laborer, and a mother and baby were overtaken by the tornado in a nearby field.
The tornado intensified as it proceeded into downtown Nashville, shattering windows in the Tennessee State Capitol. The tornado extensively damaged many structures in downtown Nashville and passed only several hundred feet from the U.S. Weather Bureau office. As it crossed the Cumberland River into East Nashville, the tornado burgeoned to wide, damaging several four-story factories. Within a segment of the path through East Nashville, the tornado was particularly damaging to homes, churches, businesses, and schools. In this area alone, the tornado damaged or destroyed at least 1,400 homes and more than 60 other buildings.
TVS is then an extremely strong mesocyclone found at very low level and extending over a deep layer of the thunderstorm, not the actual tornadic circulation. The TVS is, however, indicative of a likely tornado or an incipient tornado. The couplet and TVS typically precede tornado formation by 10–30 minutes but may occur at nearly the same time or precede the tornado by 45 minutes or more. Polarimetric radar can discern meteorological and nonmeteorological and other characteristics of hydrometeors that are helpful to tornado detection and nowcasting.
1917 tornado damage in Mattoon On May 26, 1917, the town was devastated by an F4 tornado which killed 101 people and injured approximately 638 people. The tornado was Illinois' third deadliest tornado disaster.The Mattoon/Charleston Tornado of May 26, 1917 from the National Weather Service In 1932, the Kuehne Manufacturing Co. began producing dinette sets at their new plant on the south side of Mattoon. Its early sets were wooden, but by the 1950s Kuehne was making the chromed metal breakfast-room sets so popular during that decade.
A map of the tornado paths in the Super Outbreak (April 3–4, 1974) The tornado which holds most records in history was the Tri-State Tornado, which roared through parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. It was likely an F5, though tornadoes were not ranked on any scale in that era. It holds records for longest path length (), longest duration (about 3.5 hours), and fastest forward speed for a significant tornado () anywhere on Earth. In addition, it is the deadliest single tornado in United States history (695 dead).
Kansas City is situated on the edge of the "Tornado Alley", a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains in Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms especially during the spring. A few areas of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area have had some severe outbreaks of tornadoes at different points in the past, including the Ruskin Heights tornado in 1957,Kansas City Tornado Almanac, wdaftv4.com. Retrieved September 2006. The Tornado Outbreak Sequence of May 2019 and the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence.
On April 27, 2011, during what some meteorologists call the 2011 Super Outbreak, Tanner and other surrounding communities were hit by a large EF5 tornado. The wedge tornado, which was over wide, killed 11 people in Limestone county and 72 people overall, marking it as the deadliest tornado in Alabama history. It was third F5 or EF5 tornado to strike Tanner and the surrounding communities in Limestone County.
The tornado finally lifted 5 miles north of Lawrenceville. The total length of this path was . The current Norcross High School sits on land deforested by the tornado, and then purchased by the Gwinnett school board. In 2007, the county began seeking a grant from GEMA to help it reinstate a system of tornado sirens, beginning with eleven to be installed along the path of the 1998 tornado.
On July 21, An EF1 tornado damaged two homes and several outbuildings in Edgar County, Illinois. The tornado also destroyed a barn and ripped out corn stalks. An EF0 tornado touched down in Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pennsylvania on July 22; minor damage was reported. On July 23, an EF1 tornado hit Warren, Rhode Island and Swansea, Massachusetts, with the majority of damage caused to trees.
However, her death was not officially listed as a direct tornado fatality in the National Climactic Data Center database. The tornado was the strongest to strike Ohio in nine years, and the first violent tornado to strike Ohio since an EF4 hit Millbury, Ohio on the night of June 5th, 2010. It was also the first violent tornado to occur in the month of May in three years.
After years of controversy and a State Supreme Court ruling in June 1900, the county seat was moved to Anniston. The city was hit by an F4 tornado during the 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak on March 27, 1994. Twelve minutes after the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee counties, the tornado destroyed Piedmont's Goshen United Methodist Church.
Along the tornado's path 12,391 homes were destroyed and 3,180 were damaged. At least 30,000 people were affected by the tornado and damages were estimated at ¥55 million (US$7.2 million). Local news reports referred to the tornado as the worst in nearly 50 years in China. The Chinese Government reported that the tornado packed winds of at least 100 km/h (60 mph), equivalent to an F1 tornado.
Tornado (with their spinning disc) got underneath Raging Knightmare and slammed them against the wall in the CPZ. Raging Knightmare tried to use the flipper to self-right, but Tornado kept pounding on them until Shunt came in and axed Tornado. Raging Knightmare proceeded to flip Shunt. As Dead Metal came to Shunt's aid, Tornado slammed Raging Knightmare into another CPZ wall and started pounding on them and ramming them hard.
A small outbreak of seven tornadoes impacted Europe on August 9, including an F1 rope tornado that touched town in downtown Amsterdam, Netherlands. This tornado was caught on video by many tourists and locals as it caused roof damage to structures and damaged trees. A tourist boat was also struck and damaged by the tornado as well. Another F1 tornado near Hem, Netherlands snapped trees, overturned two trailers, and damaged greenhouses.
At 1130 UTC—other sources say 1205 UTC—this powerful multiple vortex tornado touched down south of Ivanovo. Near Ivanovo, the tornado snapped or bent pine, spruce, and birch trees about – from ground level. In the town itself, the tornado picked up and cast aside a crane, weighing , and threw a water tank, weighing 50,000 kilograms (110,000 lb), over a distance of . ESWD mentions that the tornado destroyed factory areas.
From April 13 to 16, 2012, a major tornado outbreak occurred across a large portion of the Great Plains. The storms resulted in 6 tornado-related fatalities, all of which occurred as a result of a nighttime EF3 tornado that caused major damage in and around Woodward, Oklahoma. Numerous other tornadoes occurred, including a violent EF4 tornado that passed near Marquette, Kansas, and an EF3 that caused major damage in Wichita.
On June 18, 2001, a small, but fatal tornado outbreak occurred across the Upper Midwest as well as Florida. The outbreak spawned a long-tracked F3 tornado that killed three people, and caused approximately US$10 million in damage. The tornado struck Siren, Wisconsin, a small village whose only siren was malfunctioning when the tornado moved through. Other less damaging tornadoes were confirmed in Florida, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska.
At one residence, a 4½ ton lathe was reportedly ripped from its anchors and broken in half. The tornado was at its worst in Oklahoma—this was the deadliest storm in that state's tornado-troubled history. Six more people were killed when the tornado swept away farms south of Shattuck, Gage, and Fargo. The tornado then moved into Woodward, where it devastated the town and killed an estimated 107 people.
The tornado outbreak of August 8–9, 1993 was a small tornado outbreak that occurred over the Upper Midwest of the United States for a period of two days. An F0 tornado near Littlefork, Minnesota lifted and moved a mobile home, killing its two occupants. It is Minnesota's most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths. Other minor tornadoes occurred in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, causing limited damage.
During the evening of April 11, 1965, an intense, destructive and long-lived tornado, rated F4 struck Kokomo, Indiana, and adjacent areas. The tornado was responsible for 17 deaths and 560 injuries. The tornado was part of a larger weather system that had produced several other tornadoes across the Great Plains over the course of April 11 and 12. The tornado touched down just northwest of Russiaville at 7:34 p.m.
A large, damaging tornado of EF3 intensity ripped through portions of Eastern New Orleans, damaging or destroying numerous homes, businesses, and industrial buildings. Another EF3 tornado near Watson toppled metal truss towers and destroyed manufactured homes. At least 33 people were injured by the New Orleans tornado with up to 6 being serious. An EF2 tornado also damaged multiple homes and destroyed a flea market near Harperville, Mississippi.
It passed into Fauquier County, damaging a large forested area and a barn. Another tornado passed through densely populated areas in Fairfax and Arlington Counties into Washington D.C., causing F1 damage. Shortly afterward, the worst tornado of the outbreak touched down from the same supercell in northern D.C., near Children's Hospital. This tornado was a large multiple vortex tornado, but caused no major damage until it reached Hyattsville.
The tornado outbreak of August 6, 1969, also known as the 1969 Minnesota tornado outbreak and the 1969 North Woods tornado outbreak, was a tornado outbreak that affected portions of north central Minnesota on August 6, 1969. There were 13 confirmed tornadoes from the outbreak, 15 people were killed and 109 were injured. To date, the outbreak remains the deadliest on record in the North Woods region of Minnesota.
An EF1 tornado struck the town of Waverly, Virginia, killing three people in a mobile home, including a two-year-old child. An EF3 tornado struck the town of Evergreen, Virginia, causing severe damage and killing one person at that location. An EF2 tornado caused major damage to homes near Oxford, North Carolina, and another EF2 tornado touched down near White Horse, Pennsylvania, damaging up to 50 structures in the area.
Retrieved 24 October 2008 and be offered for hire to heritage railways and other railtour and charter train operators.A1 Steam Official Site Hiring Tornado. Retrieved 4 November 2008 Whilst at heritage railways, the Trust would also offer driver experiences at the controls of Tornado. A new book on the story of Tornado called Tornado 21st Century Steam, written by The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey, was released on 15 October 2010.
The 2006 Westchester County tornado was the strongest and largest tornado in Westchester County, New York since the 1904 Chappaqua tornado. It touched down there on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 and traveled into southwestern Connecticut during a 33-minute span through two states. The tornado touched down at 3:30 p.m. EDT (19:30 UTC) on the shore of the Hudson River before becoming a waterspout and traveling across the river.
Passing northwest of Alexandria, the tornado killed nine and injured 50. The worst day of the outbreak sequence occurred on December 5, when four strong to violent tornadoes struck the Lower Mississippi Valley. The strongest and deadliest tornado was a wide violent F5 tornado that struck Vicksburg, Mississippi. Many buildings were leveled, although most were frail in nature, causing some experts to rate this as an F4 tornado.
Three strong tornadoes touched down across the northern section of the United States. The first one was an early morning F2 tornado that hit Corry, Pennsylvania. Later, in the evening, a long-tracked F3 tornado moved through Baker and south of Mound, Montana. The final tornado was a shorter, but fatal F3 tornado that hit Wilbaux, Montana before moving into rural Golden Valley County, North Dakota, killing one and injuring two.
A tornado outbreak struck the Southeast over a five-day span. On February 14, an F2 tornado injured two northeast of Evening Shade, Arkansas. Next, a long-tracked F3 tornado struck Galla Rock, Wilson, Blackwell, Middleton, Grand View, Center Ridge, and Whipple, Arkansas, killing one and injuring five. Catastrophe then occurred on February 16 when an F3 tornado tore through Prairie and Aberdeen, Mississippi, killing one and injuring 55.
An F1 tornado struck Willow Crest and Southern Poland, Ohio south of Youngstown, injuring three. Later, the one fatal tornado of the outbreak touched down and struck West Chester, Caswallen, West Goshen, Malvern, and Paoli, Pennsylvania at F3 strength, killing one. The final tornado was a brief, but unusually strong F2 tornado in Shaftsbury, Vermont, although there were no casualties. In the end, the outbreak killed one and injured 26.
An F2 tornado than injured two in rural Washington County, Arkansas east of Fayetteville. This was followed by yet another F3 tornado that moved out of rural Randolph County, Indiana and struck Greenville, Ohio, injuring eight. Later, a brief, but strong F2 tornado touched down right over Downtown Indianapolis, injuring two. Early on November 16, a large, 1000 yard wide F2 tornado struck areas south of West Plains, Missouri, injuring two.
An all-day outbreak of 12 deadly tornadoes struck the Midwest with all of the casualties occurring in Illinois. An F2 tornado struck Rockport, Summer Hill, Time, and Milton, injuring one. Another F2 tornado hit Eastern Jacksonville. This was followed by the worst tornado of the outbreak: an F4 tornado struck the suburban town of Southern View just barely south of Downtown Springfield, killing two and injuring 50.
The day ended with another fatal F2 tornado that killed one in rural Spink County, South Dakota. The next two day featured more scattered, but strong tornado activity. On June 21, an F3 tornado caused major damage as it moved through the north sides of Waco and Utica, Nebraska. Later, just before midnight, a large F1 tornado struck the Southwestern Kansas City suburb of Zarah, Kansas, injuring two.
An outbreak of 15 tornadoes hit the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast. The worst event occurred on May 20, when a violent, quarter- mile wide F4 tornado hit the northwest side of Plano, Iowa while moving through Wayne County, injuring five. Later, an F2 tornado occurred in rural Smith County, Kansas. Another F2 tornado traveled through Saunders County, Nebraska, although the exact track of the tornado is unknown.
As it crossed Interstate 220, the tornado leveled the Northwest Louisiana State School. As it passed through the Stockwell Place subdivision, the tornado again produced F4 damage to several homes. The storm continued to track northeastward until it dissipated over the Red Chute area. Total damage from the tornado reached $100 million (1978 USD), making the tornado one of the top 30 costliest on record in the United States.
Laura entered Arkansas while still at tropical storm strength. Numerous tornado warnings were issued in Arkansas with eight tornadoes confirmed in the state, the largest tornado outbreak ever recorded in the state during the month of August. A high-end EF1 tornado caused significant damage to a church in Lake City, though no one was hurt or injured. This same storm dropped another high-end EF1 tornado north of Brookland.
Damage was inflicted throughout the town and dozen of trees were downed before the tornado finally dissipated as it was exiting town. Throughout Schley County, the tornado injured four and caused $500,000 in damage. The tornado (or tornado family) was on the ground for 2 hours and 15 minutes, traveled , had a maximum width of , and caused $1.2525 million in damage. Two people were killed and 35 others were injured.
In 1981, the company was privatised by the Transport Act 1981, and Associated British Ports was formed. Later that year, the docks were struck by an F0/T0 tornado on 23 November, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. The tornado was very weak, with damage remaining limited as a result; a second, stronger tornado struck Hull's north-eastern residential suburbs later that day.
Numerous tornadoes ripped across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida. A large, violent tornado struck Mayflower and Vilonia, Arkansas, on April 27 causing severe damage and killing 16 people. The tornado was rated a high-end EF4, the first violent tornado of the year. Another death was confirmed earlier that evening with an EF2 tornado that moved through Quapaw, Oklahoma, and Baxter Springs, Kansas.
The tornado caused one death - an elderly woman in a mobile homes - and at least one injury. After this tornado, state troopers were dispatched to guard against looting. The next tornado was also spawned in Walker County in the county seat of Jasper. The tornado moved northward just east of downtown and caused extensive damage to an auto parts store and two mobile home sales parks along Route 78.
Within the community, the tornado damaged two homes, three mobile homes, and a school, and destroyed an outbuilding. The tornado reached the Muscle Shoals area before lifting, where it primarily impacted trees and power lines, though some buildings suffered roof damage. Shortly thereafter, a long-tracked F3 tornado developed about south of Danville. The tornado damaged or destroyed numerous homes and buildings along its path, especially over western Limestone County.
A violent F5 tornado tracked through Topeka, Kansas on June 8, killing 16 people and injuring 450. This tornado disproved several myths, as Burnett’s mound, a local hill, was believed to protect the city from tornadoes. However, the F5 tornado traveled directly over the mound and into Topeka, where it killed 16 people. The tornado directly impacted Washburn University, and rows of homes were absolutely clean from their foundations.
Huntsville was affected shortly before 11:00 pm EDT by a strong F3 tornado produced by the same thunderstorm that produced the Guin tornado. This tornado produced heavy damage in the south end of the city, eventually damaging or destroying nearly 1,000 structures. The tornado touched down north of Hartselle and moved northeast toward Huntsville. It first hit the Redstone Arsenal, damaging or destroying numerous buildings at that location.
An F3 tornado struck Western Moffett and Western West Fort Smith, killing one. A violent F4 tornado then ripped through Roland and Remy, killing five and injuring 13. The final Oklahoma tornado of the outbreak was an F3 twister that blew through Bokoshe, Gans, and Akins, killing one. Early the next morning in Arkansas, a deadly F3 tornado struck Menifee, Wooster, Greenbrier, and Southern Enders, killing one and injuring 30.
This tornado was rated F5 by tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis based on two farms being swept away.Grazulis, Significant Tornadoes, 143–45; 147–48. The same cell produced another catastrophic F4 tornado that grew to wide and tore through Shawnee and Jefferson Counties, including the town of Ozawkie, killing one and injuring 92. The cell then dropped another significant F3 tornado that hit the town of Oskaloosa, injuring one.
Rotary gun-carriage and transit platform applied to the Spanish gunboat Tornado. Designed by John Ericcson, built at New York in 1873 U.S steamer Virginius surrenders to the Spanish corvette Tornado. Oil on canvas 1873. She was brought into Spanish service as Tornado, and rated as screw corvette.
This was the last F5 (confirmed and/or possible) in the U.S. state of Michigan and occurred three years after the Flint Tornado that killed 116. Meanwhile, Hudsonville would be hit directly by a brief, but strong F2 tornado just one year later, although that tornado caused no casualties.
He then became the postmaster in nearby Sweetwater, Oklahoma. The community was named for acting Oklahoma territorial governor William C. Grimes. 1947 Grimes was hit by a violent tornado on the night of April 9, 1947. The tornado was the same night as the 1947 Woodward Oklahoma tornado.
Two were killed by an F0 tornado in Illinois on May 1 and an F3 tornado in Linn, Missouri caused no fatalities. On May 2, five were killed by tornadoes in Ohio and New York, while outside the US, an F4 tornado in Reece's Corners, Ontario caused no fatalities.
The Diamond Moving Picture Theater, located at 24th and Lake, was flattened by the Easter Sunday tornado of 1913.Easter Day tornado picture. Retrieved 7/13/08. After the tornado rumors circulated that hundreds had died inside the building; that proved to be untrue, as all patrons had escaped.
All casualties (8 deaths and 46 injuries) from the outbreak were due to the tornado in the Lone Grove area in Carter County. It was the deadliest tornado to hit Oklahoma since May 3, 1999 and the strongest tornado during the month of February in Oklahoma since 1950.
One shed was rolled several times by the tornado, injuring a man inside. The National Weather Service survey indicated that the tornado briefly reached EF2 intensity. The tornado was estimated to have touched down around 8:00 pm CDT and lifted around 8:23 pm CDT after tracking for .
On December 18, 2018, a tornado formed in Port Orchard, Washington during an atmospheric river event that lasted for several weeks. The tornado was rated EF2 with winds near and caused approximately $1.8 million (2018 USD) of damage and was the strongest tornado in the state since the 1980s.
A tornado in the China province of Anhui caused one fatality and destroyed 650 homes in just five minutes. 45 people were injured by the tornado, which caused $2.8 million (18.5 million yuan) in losses. More than 20,000 people were affected by the tornado and 950 were relocated.
An F0 tornado tore through a Caravan Park near Llanfwrog, causing minor damage. Another tornado hit Manchester causing damage to trees and buildings. One woman was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The Lancashire Police reported having received a report of a "small tornado" around 14:30 GMT.
Three people were injured by the tornado. An EF1 tornado passed near Greenwood, Wisconsin, damaging trees, silos, and barns, and killing three cows. Further east, an EF0 tornado caused minor damage in Lake City, Minnesota. A few other weak tornadoes touched down in Kansas, Texas, and Iowa as well.
On April 26, an F3 tornado in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma killed eight people. An even stronger F4 tornado killed three more people in the same state. One person was also killed by a tornado in Minnesota before more tornadoes on April 27 killed four in Wisconsin and Illinois.
The first railroad in Nemaha County was built in 1866. On May 30, 1879, the "Irving, Kansas Tornado" passed through Nemaha county. This tornado measured F4 on the Fujita scale, and had a damage path wide and long. Eighteen people were killed and sixty were injured in this tornado.
The 1998 tornado season saw record numbers of tornadoes and also the most fatalities since 1974 (surpassed in 2011). A number of tornado events resulted in large loss of life. In February, a series of tornadoes caused 42 fatalities in Florida. In March, a tornado killed 12 in Georgia.
A tree fell onto a home in Smyrna. The tornado also caused damage to homes in Middletown. The storm also produced an EF0 tornado in Queenstown, Maryland, and an EF1 tornado in Sandtown, Delaware. Throughout the state of Delaware, damage is estimated to be in excess of $20 million.
McClusky hid from the tornado in a bathtub, Tom was knocked out with asthma from the cat. After the tornado hits, Tom and his children are okay and so are Lynette and Mrs. McClusky. Ida Greenberg did not make it. She saved Lynette's and Tom's children from the Tornado.
By 5:30 p.m., the severe weather moved out of Indiana and into Ohio where damage was not as severe. One tornado was reported in Ohio, an F3 tornado that moved from Paulding County into Putnam County. That tornado caused major structural damage to buildings near Fort Jennings, Ohio.
Also near the shop, a pickup truck was mangled with several large farm implements thrown, overturned or destroyed. A tractor-trailer was flipped before the tornado dissipated near Snow Lake. Tornado activity began to spread into Mississippi later that night, and an F3 tornado caused major damage near Greenwood.
CST; 18:15 UTC) in Beltrami County. The main tornado event started about three hours later in Cass County when an F3 tornado touched down southwest of Backus, injuring four people. The most damaging tornado of the outbreak touched down at 4:48 p.m. CDT (3:48 p.m.
View of the east side of the 24th & Lake Streets in North Omaha after the 1913 tornado. More than 50 people died at this intersection. The Easter Sunday tornado of 1913 destroyed much of the Near North Side's businesses and neighborhoods.Sing, T (2003) Omaha's Easter Tornado of 1913.
2018 also had the lowest number of tornado-related fatalities on record in the United States. In contrast to the United States, Canada experienced above-average numbers of strong tornadoes, including one of only two officially-rated violent tornado of the year. The other violent tornado occurred in Brazil.
Later, an F1 tornado caused considerable damage in Southern Springfield, Missouri, injuring one. An F3 tornado injured 12 in rural Woodruff County, Arkansas. The outbreak ended the next day after an isolated, but intense F3 tornado heavily damaged Morrison, Tennessee. Overall, the destructive outbreak killed two and injuring 84.
An outbreak of 20 tornadoes struck the Southeast. On November 22, an F3 tornado hit the Southwestern San Antonio, Texas, causing major damage. Another F3 tornado then blew through Trawick and Mount Enterprise, Texas, killing one and injuring 10. Later, another F3 tornado injured one in Hungerford, Texas.
An outbreak sequence of 13 tornadoes struck the Southeast. On December 10, an isolated but destructive morning F3 tornado injured one in Brewton, Alabama. The next day, a weak but damaging F0 tornado injured three in DeRidder, Louisiana. Later, an F3 tornado caused major damage in Jacksonville, Alabama.
A small tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern United States. The most notable storm was an F5 tornado that hit Tracy, Minnesota, destroying 111 homes and killing 9 people. Some farms and businesses were completely swept away. An F2 tornado destroyed cottages near Arnolds Park, Iowa, injuring 17 people.
An outbreak of 16 tornadoes struck the Mississippi Valley. On March 26, an F3 tornado in Izard County, Arkansas injured one. Later, a large F2 tornado moved directly through Downtown Little Rock, injuring seven. After that, a massive, mile wide F3 tornado moved through Prairie County, Arkansas, injuring 20.
An F2 tornado moved directly through Hartford, Michigan with no casualties. Elsewhere, a brief, but rare and damaging F0 tornado injured one in the El Sereno neighborhood northeast of Downtown Los Angeles. Another F0 tornado tracked 10.2 miles through the southeastern suburbs of Kennewick, Washington without causing any casualties.
Three strong tornadoes struck Arkansas. On February 15, an F3 tornado hit areas northwest of Clarksville, Arkansas, injuring 24. An F2 tornado than hit rural Sevier County, Arkansas with no casualties. On February 16, a half-mile wide F3 tornado than struck Westover, Arkansas, killing one and injuring four.
An outbreak of 21 tornadoes occurred across the Midwest. On April 5, a large F4 tornado in Missouri tracked into Iowa and hit Northboro, injuring two. Later, a half-mile wide F2 tornado northeast of Scranton, Iowa injured one. Another large F3 tornado tracked through areas near Coin, Iowa.
Fargo tornado. A deadly outbreak sequence of 23 tornadoes hit the Great Plains and the Great Lakes. It started on June 20 in North Dakota with an F2 tornado south of Oake, North Dakota. Later, a large, violent, and catastrophic 500-yard-wide F5 tornado family hit Fargo.
The only two deaths to occur in Bossier City were two young girls who were killed when a car was thrown through their bedroom wall. The Bossier City tornado became the fifth tornado in American history to produce at least $100 million (non- adjusted) in damage.Grazulis, The Tornado, 206.
The tornado then rapidly weakened and finally lifted to the southwest of Glasgow, just prior to crossing into Cecil County, Maryland. The tornado was on the ground for 35 minutes, tracked , was wide, and was rated low-end EF2. It was the longest tracked tornado in Delaware since 1950.
Around 2:46 pm EDT, an EF1 tornado touched down near Oldtown, Maryland in Allegany County. Several roads were closed due to downed trees and power lines, including route 51. Several homes were also damaged by the tornado. The path of the tornado was estimated to be long.
The cell traveled about , before dropping one final F3 tornado in Dale. It traveled for , destroying a family farm as it occluded northward. A clock inside the residence stopped at 9:05 PM CDT, when the tornado struck. The tornado dissipated five minutes later at 9:10 PM CDT.
Benelli claimed at the time of launch that the Tornado was capable of 57 hp at 7,400rpm for a top speed of 117 mph. The Tornado (later the Tornado S) was discontinued after 1974, when Benelli introduced a series of "multis" intended to compete with Japanese triples and fours.
The tornado was 300 yards wide with a path of almost nine miles. The tornado knocked down trees, power lines, and docks, but no injuries or deaths resulted.
An F2 tornado in Los Angeles, California hit just south of downtown, destroying property and causing 30 injuries, the highest number of tornado related injuries in California history.
Three people were killed in Arkansas and Missouri during the 1982 Christmas tornado outbreak. One tornado on Christmas Eve was rated F4 that traveled from Arkansas to Missouri.
The old record for most tornado reports in one week was 171 during the week of the May 1995 tornado outbreak sequence (May 12 to May 18, 1995).
None of their claims has been verified.Mike Coppock, Sixty years after Woodward tornado, girl's kidnapping unsolved. Oklahoma Gazette, April 3, 2007.Woman may be girl stolen after tornado.
The Hamilton, Ontario, tornado of 2005 was a tornado that touched down during the late afternoon hours of Wednesday, November 9, 2005, in the city of Hamilton, Ontario.
The 1884 Howard, South Dakota tornado was a large tornado that occurred on August 28, 1884, near Howard, South Dakota, which was then part of the Dakota Territory.
On April 16, 2011, Fayetteville was struck by an EF3 tornado during North Carolina's largest tornado outbreak. Surrounding areas such as Sanford, Dunn and Raleigh were also affected.
During the spring and summer, severe thunderstorms may be accompanied by lightning, hail, flooding and tornadoes. Perhaps the most notable tornado event was the 1968 Wheelersburg tornado outbreak.
An F3 tornado damaged every building in Omega, Oklahoma, with extensive damage to the local school. The superintendent was injured. An F2 tornado caused severe damage in Watonga.
The tornado track was only , the shortest track of any F5/EF5 tornado in the US since 1950. As a whole, the outbreak killed one and injured five.
Two other long track tornadoes touched down in Louisiana, and F3 tornado which tracked leaving five dead, and an F2 tornado which traveled and left another five dead.
An F3 tornado moved through the Northwestern suburbs of Mobile, Alabama, injuring 15. An additional F2 tornado struck near Cedar Point and Cypress Point, Alabama with no causalties.
No fatalities were reported with this tornado. Along with the F-2 tornado that was reported, 19 other tornadoes touched down within a 50-mile radius of Centerville.
Dominator 3 first saw action during the tornado outbreak of May 18–21, 2013, making three separate intercepts on an EF4 tornado near Shawnee, Oklahoma on May 19.
The tornado in Elgin was rated F3 in a study and was the first tornado of the outbreak to cause deaths and to kill more than five people.
The deadliest tornado of the outbreak was an F5 twister that struck Northwestern Colfax in Dunn County at 7:04 PM CDT. The tornado touched down south of Interstate 94 in Wildwood in St. Croix County the same county affected by the New Richmond Tornado on June 12, 1899, which killed 117. The F5 storm traveled across St. Croix and Dunn Counties, passing through or near Knapp, Cedar Falls, and Tainter Lake well north of Menomonie before producing the worst damage in Northern Colfax. A few minutes later the tornado dissipated northeast of town. The F5 tornado itself killed 21 and injured 74, with 12 people being killed in Colifax alone, making it the deadliest tornado since 1950 and one of the deadliest of all-time in Wisconsin.Tornado Database, Tornado Maps, Tornado Paths Damages Colfax alone also was estimated at $2 million including about half of the buildings in that town flattened.
Between May 9 and June 2, at least one tornado touched down each day across the United States in a prolonged tornado outbreak sequence, encompassing 312 tornadoes across four separate storm systems. Altus, Oklahoma tornado May 11, 1982 On May 11, 41 people were injured by an F3 tornado on the southeast side of Altus, Oklahoma before another F3 tornado killed two people and injured 18 in Blair, Oklahoma. The worst day of the sequence was May 29, when a small, but deadly series of tornadoes touched down in Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana, with Marion, Illinois being the hardest hit. 10 fatalities occurred there after the town took a direct hit from an F4 tornado.
The tornado stayed in mostly sparsely populated rural areas, but there were reports of a house west of Arnett being hit. At around 9:50 pm CDT (0250 UTC), there was a violent and destructive tornado in southwest Kansas near Greensburg. City administrator Steve Hewitt said that 90% of Greensburg was destroyed and at least 16 people were critically injured, according to Fox. 11 people died and 63 were injured according to the National Weather Service and CNN. The tornado was rated an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, the first since the new scale was implemented and the first F5 or EF5 tornado since the Bridge Creek tornado during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak on May 3, 1999.
The 1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak, also known as the 1984 Ivanovo tornado outbreak, was one of only three disastrous tornado outbreaks in modern Russian history (one of the others being the 1904 Moscow tornado) and the third- deadliest tornado outbreak in European history. Occurring on June 9, 1984, the outbreak struck the Ivanovo and Yaroslavl regions north of Moscow, an area over 400,000 km2. At least two of the eleven known tornadoes were violent events, equal to F4 or higher in intensity on the Fujita scale, based upon observed damages. The main tornado, an F5, which was up to wide, caused extreme damage, throwing heavy objects of for distances up to .
EST near Peacocks Crossroads in Johnston County, knocking down several trees, some of which were mature. Significant roof damage occurred after the tornado struck a double-wide mobile home and destroyed the porch of another home. Another mobile home had some of its siding torn off before the tornado dissipated. No injuries were reported as a result of the tornado and damages amounted to $30,000. The tornado was rated as an EF1 by the National Weather Service. The fifth tornado of the outbreak touched down around 3:03 a.m. EST near U.S. Route 70, damaging several pine trees and causing minor roof damage. Tracking towards the northeast, the tornado destroyed a carport and the car inside.
The storm killed 150 people and caused $3 billion in damages. On May 3, 1999, a violent tornado outbreak struck the Southern Great Plains, predominantly Oklahoma. The most destructive tornado was an F5 tornado that struck Oklahoma City and the suburb of Moore. The tornado is one of the most prominent examples of a tornado striking a major urban area and became the first tornado to incur over $1 billion in damages. In all, the outbreak resulted in 50 deaths and over 600 injuries. In 2004, four hurricanes-- Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne—struck the state of Florida in a one-month timespan, resulting in over 100 U.S. deaths and nearly $50 billion in damage combined.
The Early-April 1957 tornado outbreak sequence was a deadly tornado outbreak sequence that struck most of the Southern United States from April 2–5, 1957. The outbreak killed at least 21 people across three states and produced at least 72 tornadoes from Texas to Virginia. The outbreak was most notable due to a tornado that hit a densely populated area of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, killing 10 people and injuring 200 or more. The tornado, highly visible for most of its path, was at the time the most observed and best-documented tornado in recorded history; hundreds of people photographed or filmed the F3 tornado as it moved just west of Downtown Dallas.
A first series of tornadoes touched down on April 2 across Oklahoma causing mostly minor damage to some structures. The strongest tornadoes of the outbreak took place across the Arklatex region during the afternoon hours, where the strongest and lone killer tornado of the outbreak took place. At 3:52 PM, a supercell thunderstorm spawned a tornado over Cross Lake, north of Shreveport Regional Airport. The tornado moved northeast. In Caddo Parish the tornado damaged 66 buildings. In Caddo Parish, damages were estimated at near $1.6 million (2006 dollars).NCDC: Event Details At 4:01 PM, the tornado entered Bossier Parish as an F4 tornado. In Bossier Parish, 227 buildings suffered major damage or were destroyed.
On May 10, 2015, shortly after sunset, Van was struck by a strong tornado during the May 5–10, 2015 tornado outbreak sequence. According to the National Weather Service and tornado chasers, a severe thunderstorm spawned a tornado that touched down in a heavily wooded thicket just south of Van Zandt County Road 4609, just west of the small community of Primrose, 10 miles south of Van. The tornado path moved in a direct line north, crossing Texas State Highway 64, picking up strength as it crossed the Neches River, and then Interstate 20 just south of the town. The tornado went straight into the heart of Van, causing heavy damage to structures in the town.
The Garland/Rowlett tornado completely destroyed numerous homes and vehicles along its path, and killed 10 people. Later that night, an EF2 tornado killed two people and caused major damage in Copeville, while an EF1 caused another fatality near Blue Ridge, leaving a total of 13 tornado related fatalities and making the event the deadliest tornado disaster in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex since the Dallas tornado of 1957. The parent storm system went on to produce several other tornadoes across the Southern United States throughout the next two days, including the second tornado to cause EF2 damage near Marianna, Arkansas within a six-day period. Overall, the storm system produced 32 tornadoes, along with significant snowfall and flooding.
At this time, the tornado was being observed by University of Oklahoma's Doppler on Wheels crew, whose mobile Doppler radar data showed up to 220 mph winds in the tornado only a few decameters above the ground. While this tornado was rated F4, such wind speeds are consistent with an EF5 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which was later implemented in 2007. This tornado carved a wide path directly across the town of Spencer between 8:38 and 8:44 pm CDT, destroying or damaging all but a few houses on the Northeast side of town, and blowing over the water tower. Several homes in town were swept from their foundations by the tornado.
The most significant tornado that occurred on April 13 was a violent, wide EF4 tornado in Hampton County, South Carolina that destroyed many homes and took the lives of five people near Estill and Nixville. With 32 tornado-related fatalities, it was the deadliest outbreak since April 27–30, 2014.
Bettes and the Tornado Hunt crew were lifted up by the wedge tornado in their sport utility vehicle. That storm threw them two hundred yards off U.S. Route 81. The SUV was destroyed afterward. Five other people who were not involved with storm chasing also lost their lives in this tornado.
An F4 tornado struck from the southwest on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1994 at 10:55 a.m. At 11:27 a.m., the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee counties. Twelve minutes later, the tornado destroyed Piedmont's Goshen United Methodist Church.
The tornado is officially estimated to have been an F3 event. It remains the second of only three F3/EF3 tornadoes to affect Broward County since 1950; the others occurred on April 10, 1956, and March 1, 1980. However, tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis classified the tornado as an F2.
X-Terminator was then immobilised in the CPZ, and Tornado hit the Pit Release button, but they couldn't then push X-Terminator towards the pit: the CPZ was soaked with fluid from Killalot, leaving Tornado with wet tyres and little traction. Having won the playoff, Tornado finished third in Series 7.
The tornado also passed over a lagoon, sucking up all the water that was inside of it. In total, the tornado killed 63 people, and caused millions of pesos in damage. The tornado destroyed a ton of wooden planks, and turned them into flying projectiles, which caused most of the fatalities.
EST, the first of two killer tornadoes touched down near Kenly, North Carolina. The EF2 tornado destroyed a few homes and damaged several others. Roughly 20 minutes later, an EF3 tornado touched down in Wilson County. This tornado killed one person and injured a few others after destroying several homes.
Ten car accidents were reported in Florence. The tropical storm spawned an F2 tornado in Georgetown that remained on the ground for about 1.25 miles (2 km). At its peak strength, the tornado overturned five mobile homes and a car. The tornado destroyed seven homes and damaged 106 buildings, 28 severely.
The southern Las Vegas Valley was hit by two tornadoes, including an F1 tornado that shifted one home and partially unroofed another. Despite being one of the strongest tornadoes in Nevada history, there were no fatalities or injuries with this tornado. Elsewhere, an F0 tornado also touched down in Florida.
The third notable tornado outbreak to occur on Palm Sunday and the second in the Southeastern United States, this deadly series of 27 tornadoes became the most notable tornado event of the year, resulting in 40 fatalities. Two tornadoes were rated F4, including the Piedmont, Alabama tornado that killed 22 people.
By 3:30 p.m. the tornado had exited the city and dissipated near Illinois Route 166. The tornado had destroyed the Shawnee Village Apartment Complex and severely damaged three shopping centers. The tornado heavily damaged the area surrounding the Interstate 57 and Illinois Route 13 interchange including the Marion Ford dealership.
The Tornado outbreak of June 4, 1958, also known as the 1958 Colfax, Wisconsin, tornado outbreak, was the deadliest tornado outbreak in the U.S. state of Wisconsin since records began in 1950. The outbreak, which initiated in Central Minnesota, killed at least 28 people, all of whom perished in Northwestern Wisconsin.
The twister completely obliterated 12 mobile homes within a mobile home park outside of town, and flattened another poorly built house. The tornado killed 2 people. The tornado would the strongest tropical cyclone spawned tornado since 2005. Governor Roy Cooper toured the damage area in the days following the event.
Shortly after 5:00 p.m., a tornado touched down at 1155 53rd Avenue North in north St. Petersburg. There, the tornado unroofed a home, bending a TV antenna and dropping it on an automobile. Next, the tornado moved northwest to 5445 16th Street North, where it unroofed a second home.
A small outbreak of nine tornadoes hit the Southeast. On February 20, the first tornado of the outbreak struck Bassfield, Mississippi at F2 strength, injuring eight. Another F2 tornado then hit Northern Lucas, Sanatorium, and Eastern Zion Hill, injuring four. That night, a destructive F1 tornado injured four in Providence, Alabama.
An outbreak of 14 tornadoes hit the Great Plains and Southeast. It started with an F2 tornado injuring three on the northwest side of the Northern Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas. Later, another F2 tornado moved through areas east of Emmett, Texas. Another F2 tornado caused considerable damage in Reese, Texas.
Six destructive tornadoes hit Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. The first tornado of the outbreak was an early morning F3 tornado that hit Pratt, Kansas and areas west of Preston. That afternoon, another F3 tornado moved directly through Downtown Oklahoma City. Fortunately, there were no casualties reported from any of the tornadoes.
A brief but strong F2 tornado struck Southeastern Muncie, Indiana. Later, a strong F3 tornado moved through Altona, Pender, and Thurston, Nebraska, killing one. An additional weak, but large half-mile wide F1 tornado struck the east side of Lake City, Minnesota. In the end, the three tornadoes killed one person.
Three damaging tornadoes struck Ohio and Indiana. The first one was an F1 tornado that struck the southwest side of Troy, Ohio, injuring one. A destructive F2 than struck south of Bedford, Indiana. The final tornado was a strong F3 tornado in Tyrrell, Ohio that killed one and injured six.
An EF3 tornado moved across portions of Schenectady and Albany counties in New York. The worst damage occurred in Duanesburg, where one house was almost completely destroyed. This marks the strongest tornado in the state of New York since May 31, 1998. Another tornado, rated EF1, touched down near Marydel, Delaware.
Several vehicles and other homes nearby were damaged, nine of which were left uninhabitable. A third tornado developed over Lawrence County about southeast of Moulton. The brief, F1 tornado downed trees onto a highway, trapping a motorist. The cyclone then spawned an F2 tornado in Spring Valley in Colbert County.
Even before discovering the NX Secret, Tornado was always a master at flying kicks and incredible jumps, flips and spins. It is no wonder he got the name 'Tornado'. After discovering the NX Secret, Tornado achieved a form of Mystic Budo. His power however, is quite different from that of Katana's.
A tornado outbreak sequence affected the Great Plains and the Midwest, as well as Alabama. The main day of the outbreak was June 15, when 11 tornadoes touched down. An F1 tornado killed one and injured three in rural Phelps County, Nebraska. Another F1 tornado injured one in Freedom, Nebraska.
The tornado destroyed at least 50 houses and left roughly twenty thousand people without electricity. The Tsukuba tornado was clearly visible on radar while it was on the ground, with a hook echo and mesocyclone evident. A second tornado, rated F1, struck Moka, Tochigi and injured one person as well.
An isolated EF2 tornado touched down in Diehlstadt, Missouri late on June 4. It was only on the ground very briefly, but hit a mobile home while down, killing three occupants. It was the first killer US tornado since the April 14 outbreak. The tornado was embedded in a larger microburst.
A Tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes in a region over a relatively short span of time. Usually, a tornado outbreak is the result of multiple supercells.
NOAA Memphis Report The tornado lifted a carport and other light debris at the Bay Airport; its path of destruction was wide and the tornado travelled a path of .
Tornado: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker!!!!. A Worst Case Scenario Written by Tornado!. In: Jon Kristiansen: Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, pp. 406f.
Just prior to winning the championship he unmasked and started using his real name. The Tornado mask and gimmick was passed on to Steve Debbes, who became Tornado II.
The tornado finally dissipated south of Edgefield. The death toll from this tornado is listed at 28, but due to uncertainties, it may have been as high as 42.
An F3 tornado spawned by Hurricane Danny struck Waco, Tennessee, and produced a damage swath that was 500 yards wide, making it the largest hurricane-spawned tornado ever recorded.
A tornado tore through 22 villages in Maheshpur, Bangladesh damaging about 1,250 homes and several acres of crops. The tornado killed a child and injured around 150 other people.
On August 1, 2011 Blagoveshchensk was hit by an F2 tornado. The tornado claimed one life and injured twenty-eight people. Damage costs are estimated at 80 million rubles.
The term "tornado preparedness" has been used by government agencies, emergency response groups, schools, "Tornado Preparedness Tips for School Administrators", NOAA.gov, 2010, web: NOAA-sch. insurance companies, and others.
An F2 tornado destroyed a gas station and damaged more than 70 buildings in Clay, Kentucky. Another F2 tornado damaged homes, destroyed barns, and killed livestock near Hartsville, Tennessee.
An early morning F3 tornado hit Girard, Ohio and the northwest side of Youngtstown, killing two people. That afternoon, an F0 tornado hit Medina, North Dakota with no casualties.
A brief, isolated, but surprisingly deadly F0 tornado struck the northwest side of Great Bend, Kansas, killing one. This was the second F0 tornado in 1955 to cause fatalities.
The final tornado of the outbreak was an F2 tornado that hit Carlyss, Louisiana on April 27. In the end, the destructive outbreak sequence killed two and injured 33.
The Pine Lake post office opened in 1895. Telephone lines arrive in 1912. On July 14, 2000 it was hit by the Pine Lake Tornado, a killer F3 tornado.
Tornado hits Eureka, homes and businesses hit, search underway; KSN tv; July 7, 2016.Nearly 150 structures damaged in Eureka as tornado cleanup continues; KSN tv; July 9, 2016.
The Bucca tornado was one of the most violent tornadoes ever observed in Australia, being the first Australian tornado to be officially rated F4 on the Fujita scale. It occurred near the township of Bucca (near Bundaberg) in Queensland on 29 November 1992 at around 2:20pm AEST. The tornado was accompanied by cricket-ball sized hail across Bucca and Bullyard regions. The tornado damaged or destroyed nine houses, some flattened to the ground.
This long-tracked tornado family of five or more tornadoes began near Cedar Point, where it unroofed a home and destroyed a barn. The first member of the family lifted near Cedar Point, and the second tornado developed west of Strong City. Near Strong City, a car was thrown , injuring the driver. This tornado then lifted and reformed into a third tornado that passed west of Bushong, west of Harveyville, and north of Dover.
Kansas City is located in "Tornado Alley", a broad region where cold air from Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms, especially during the spring. The Kansas City metropolitan area has experienced several significant outbreaks of tornadoes in the past, including the Ruskin Heights tornado in 1957Kansas City Tornado Almanac , wdaftv4.com. Retrieved September 2006. and the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence.
A large, long-tracked F3 tornado–which was likely a tornado family–first touched down on the north shore of Witmer Lake in LaGrange County, Indiana. It moved due east and immediately became strong as it moved into Witmer Manor and Webers Landing. A total of 22 cottages were destroyed or badly damaged while 30 others sustained minor damage. All five injuries from the tornado occurred here before the tornado passed north of Wolcottville.
Another large EF2 tornado caused significant damage to homes outside of Canton, Texas. After the initial Canton tornado dissipated, an EF1 tornado touched down and moved through downtown Canton, causing considerable damage to businesses. Near Winnsboro, Texas, a third EF2 tornado downed many trees, caused significant damage to outbuildings, and destroyed a large poultry barn. Several weak tornadoes also occurred in the eastern part of the United States that afternoon and evening.
Throughout Tornado's opponent's run in the war, Jonathan Pearce described it as "similar in many ways to Tornado, Could even be stronger". Storm 2 proved to be faster and a little more powerful than Tornado. Twice Storm 2 rammed Tornado so hard that it bounced off the arena wall and flew across the floor. Storm 2 got underneath Tornado and used their lifter to flip them upside down, rendering their scoop useless.
At 10:12 p.m. CST, the first tornado produced by the supercell touched down in Gibson County in West Tennessee. This tornado was rated EF1 and was followed minutes later by a stronger and longer-tracked EF2 tornado which tracked across much of Carroll County. After causing minor to moderate damage with these two tornadoes, the supercell quickly produced a third tornado, also rated EF2, that touched down north of Camden in Benton County.
More tree and structural damage was observed as the tornado left Gordonsville at EF1 intensity before it lifted east-northeast of Hickman along Lancaster Highway at 1:35 a.m. CST (07:35 UTC). The tornado caused five fatalities and 220 injuries along the path, which is one of the longest continuous damage paths in Tennessee history. Damage estimates from the tornado reached $1.504 billion, making it the 6th costliest tornado in United States history.
The 1997 Miami Tornado (also known as the Great Miami Tornado) was an F1 tornado which touched down in Miami, Florida, United States, on May 12, 1997. It is remembered not for its minor damage, but for its haunting pictures which became the subject of worldwide press attention. The tornado formed around 2:00 PM, initially touching down in the Silver Bluff Estates area. It then swept through Downtown Miami, bypassing the city's skyscrapers.
At about 14:17 local time, a tornado touched down right next to the General Belgrano Railroad tracks, in an open field. The tornado quickly became extremely violent, reaching F5 intensity two minutes later. The tornado tore through San Justo, sweeping several homes off of their foundations and tossing cars “like ping pong balls.” The tornado reached a maximum width of 300 meters, and abruptly dissipated 5 minutes after reaching F5 intensity.
However, several minutes later it touched down again, destroying the roof and severely damaging the walls of a brick home. After traveling for about one third of a mile, the tornado destroyed the roof of another brick home. The tornado was estimated to have become a strong EF2 tornado with winds between as it hit a third brick home, nearly destroying it. In all, the tornado damaged 25 structures and destroyed seven others.
At the time the tornado struck, three people were in the home, one of which was killed. After destroying the home, the tornado caused major damage to the upper portion of another home and tore off the roof of another. Afterwards, the tornado tracked into Elm City where numerous trees were damaged and a porch was blown off a home. An estimated 8,000 residents in Wilson County were left without power following the tornado.
The tornado was initially classified as an EF3, although it was upgraded to EF4 in later analysis. The hardest hit communities were the rural communities of Wren, Speake, Pin Hook and Five Points. The tornado moved into Morgan County and threatened the Decatur area, leading the NWS in Huntsville to issue a tornado emergency (the fifth for the outbreak) for Morgan County and southern Limestone County. The tornado lifted off the ground before reaching Decatur.
The Daulatpur–Saturia tornado occurred in Manikganj District, Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. It was the deadliest tornado in Bangladesh's history. There is great uncertainty about the death toll, but estimates indicate that it was devastating and that it killed approximately 1,300 people, which would make it the deadliest tornado in history. The tornado affected the cities of Daulatpur and Saturia the most, moving east through Daulatpur and eventually northeast into Saturia.
One tornado blew down the spire of a 300-year-old church on Main Street in Flushing. The Brooklyn tornado was rated an EF0 and the Queens tornado was rated an EF1. One person is known to have been killed as a result of the storm. In addition, one person was confirmed dead in Belleville, Wood County, West Virginia by an EF3 tornado where many structures where heavily damaged or destroyed, including camping trailers.
A minor tornado outbreak produced several significant tornadoes across Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Missouri. An F2 tornado that formed near Geronimo, Oklahoma, was responsible for most of the injuries on this day as it damaged mobile homes and roofs, injuring five people. Another F2 tornado developed near Ponca City and lifted near Atlanta, Kansas, causing severe damage to many barns and homes. Downbursts accompanied the tornado, and the combined effects caused $1 million in losses.
In the afternoon, an F1 tornado destroyed several mobile homes in Red Level, Alabama, killing two people and injuring another.NCDC: Event Details Another F1 tornado also destroyed mobile homes near Boykin, Georgia later in the afternoon, injuring 2 people.NCDC: Event Details After midnight, three tornadoes touched down in extreme northern Florida, including an F2 tornado in Hamilton County and an F1 tornado which injured five people and caused $5 million in damage to Daytona Beach.
EDT (19:37 UTC); two minutes later, a wind gust was reported along the periphery of the tornado. As the tornado neared New York State Route 9A, it intensified to F2 status, generating winds up to , and struck the California Closet Warehouse. At the time, the tornado was estimated to be 300 yd (274 m) wide and was the strongest tornado ever recorded in Westchester County. Shortly after, it weakened back to F1 intensity.
March 31 produced an outbreak of 12 tornadoes across Georgia, Alabama and Florida. A deadly F3 tornado ripped through Unadilla, Georgia, kiling one and injuring 14. Another F3 tornado passed through Southern Phenix City, Alabama, injuring seven before crossing the Chattahoochee River and causing F1 damage in Southern Columbus and Weracoba Heights, Georgia, including Columbus State University. The final tornado to cause casualties was a large, wide F1 tornado that injured one in Folkston, Georgia.
A low pressure system produced a major tornado outbreak across the Midwestern and Southern United States. It was one of only a few outbreaks to have produced more than one F5 tornado. The first F5 tornado struck Charles City and Elma, Iowa, killing 13 people and damaging or destroying nearly 13 homes with a damage cost of $30 million. The second F5 tornado, also in Iowa, stuck Oelwein and Maynard, killing 5 people.
The next day, a mile-wide F3 tornado mowed down hundreds of trees between Leoma and Goodspring, Tennessee, although there were no casualties. A brief F1 tornado then caused two injuries north- northwest of Allardt, Tennessee. The final tornado occurred on February 18, when an isolated, but strong long-tracked F2 tornado hit LaFayette, Tunnel Hill, and Rocky Face, Georgia without causing any casualties. Overall, there were 16 tornadoes, two fatalities, and 64 injuries.
The worst tornado of the outbreak formed and moved in an odd northwest direction, moving through the south side of Hanfield, Indiana east of Marion. The violent F4 tornado killed one and injured 31. The last major tornado of the outbreak occurred on March 7, when an F2 tornado injured one in Camden, West Virginia, although more tornadoes were confirmed into March 8. In the end, the outbreak caused one fatality and 42 injuries.
A tornado outbreak occurred across the Great Plains and Michigan, with most of tornadoes impacting Kansas. On June 4, a large, long-tracked 500 yard wide F4 tornado struck Formoso, Kansas before moving into Nebraska and hitting areas west of Hubell along its 61.9 mile path. Later, an even longer-tracked F4 tornado hit Kinsley, Kansas along a 72.2 mile path. In rural Stafford County, Kansas, an F3 tornado impacted areas east of Hudson.
That was followed by another F4 tornado that tracked 28 miles through rural Mountrail County, North Dakota with no casualties. On July 7, an F1 tornado injured one northeast of Arco, Minnesota. At the same time, a long-tracked violent F4 tornado moved through Lyon County, Minnesota, killing one and injuring 13. Early on July 8, another long-tracked F2 tornado struck Loup City and Elba, Nebraska, also killing one and injuring 13.
Another F3 tornado then hit Groves and Atreco, Texas, killing two and injuring 59. After that, yet another F3 tornado hit Northwestern Port Arthur and Groves, injuring one. A fourth F3 tornado, this one long-tracked, then killed two and injured one in rural Holmes and Carroll Counties in Mississippi. Later, an unusual, but still catastrophic, southwest moving, violent F4 tornado hit Orange, West Orange, Bridge City, and Atreco, Texas, killing one and injuring 81.
Early the next morning, an F1 tornado passed through Philadelphia, and Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, injuring three. An F2 tornado then hit Pulaski, Tennessee, although there were no casualties. Another F1 tornado then injured five east of Aliceville, Alabama. Later that afternoon after lull in activity, the final twister, another strong, long- tracked F3 tornado, tore through Crisp, Southern Conetoe, Northern Bethel, Gold Point, and Quitsna, North Carolina, injuring five on its 46.9 mile path.
The tornado reached F2 status as it inflicted severe damage to homes and to an industrial park in the southwest part of the town. The tornado weakened and continued through more rural areas before striking the town of Markdale, where F0 damage occurred to homes and trees. The path of this tornado was long, making it the longest track tornado in Ontario since the Williamsford and Arthur tornadoes of 1996.Verkaik, Arjen & Jerrine.
On June 1, 2011, Springfield was directly struck by the second-largest tornado ever to hit Massachusetts. With wind speeds exceeding , the tornado left three dead, hundreds injured, and over 500 homeless in the city alone. The tornado caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to Springfield and destroyed nearly everything in a path from Westfield to Charlton, Massachusetts. It was the first deadly tornado to strike Massachusetts since May 29, 1995.
This is the tornado outbreak responsible for the Anderson Hills Tornado which killed one person. In southern Middle Tennessee, an F4 tornado in Lawrence County, Tennessee and Giles County, Tennessee struck the town of Ethridge and killed three people. The National Weather Service weather forecast office in Nashville, Tennessee said that May 18, 1995 was the 3rd worst tornado outbreak to hit middle Tennessee. Nearly 80 tornadoes touched down during that day.
Mayor Tergin received national coverage in May 2019 for her response to the disastrous tornado that hit Jefferson City in May of 2019. Before the tornado she issued mandatory evacuation orders for parts of Jefferson City, and an emergency declaration. She enforced a curfew for Jefferson City the day after the tornado tore through town. She reported that the city had prepared for flooding but had not prepared for such extensive damage from the tornado.
Church services had been dismissed just minutes before, saving the lives of parishioners and preventing more deaths in Elgin. As the tornado left downtown Elgin, it destroyed numerous trees along with 25 homes and damaged 200 other residences. Thereafter, the tornado probably dissipated, only to develop into a new tornado. Both isolated tornado and widespread non-tornadic downburst damage was reported as far as Wauconda, killing cattle, damaging farms, and destroying many buildings.
The most intense and longest lived tornado of the outbreak was a massive, rain-wrapped wedge tornado that began in southern Dougherty County, Georgia during the late afternoon hours of January 22. The tornado touched down at 3:15 p.m. EST (20:15 UTC) north of Newton. The first evidence of damage was at the intersection of Tarvis Road and Tarvis Lane, where the trunks of softwood trees were snapped (consistent with an EF1 tornado).
Damage to houses and trees shortly after the November 17, 2013 tornado. An EF4 tornado, part of the tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013, entered Washington from the southwest in East Peoria. Three people were killed, one during the storm and two others later from injuries, including a United States Army veteran. The tornado then destroyed the Georgetown Common apartment complex, including ripping second floors off most of the 16 apartment buildings.
Damage from the Birmingham tornado of 2005. An unusually strong example of a tornado event in the United Kingdom, the Birmingham Tornado resulted in 19 injuries, mostly from falling trees. Though tornadoes can strike in an instant, there are precautions and preventative measures that can be taken to increase the chances of survival. Authorities such as the Storm Prediction Center advise having a pre-determined plan should a tornado warning be issued.
The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado (locally referred to as the May 3rd tornado) was a large and extraordinarily powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally were recorded at by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar. Considered the strongest tornado ever recorded to have affected the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, the tornado devastated southern portions of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, along with surrounding suburbs and towns to the south and southwest of the city during the early evening of Monday, May 3, 1999. The tornado covered during its 85-minute existence, destroying thousands of homes, killing 36 people (plus an additional five indirectly), and leaving US$1 billion (1999 USD) in damage, ranking it as the fifth-costliest on record not accounting for inflation. The tornado first touched down at 6:23 p.m.
The second tornado from the main tornado-producing supercell formed near Piłka and then struck the North side of Piłka at 15:30 UTC, producing little damage. The tornado continued on to Rusinowice, where it significantly intensified into a strong tornado as it passed through the southern and eastern part of the town, where several buildings were destroyed. The tornado continued to quickly intensify and quickly expanded as it moved northeast of Rusinowice, where it snapped, uprooted, and debarked hundreds of trees in a forest. The tornado reached its maximum width of at least half a mile north of Ciesnowia, clipping the northern side of town and leveling entire swaths of forest, denuding and debarking hundreds of trees. The tornado then continued moving north-northeast and caused it’s worst damage in the western suburbs of Kalina, where many homes were leveled.
Many farms were demolished, and while no major injuries were reported, hundreds of livestock, some of which were thrown miles through the air, were killed. Residents of Boynton were cleaning up debris from the evening's first tornado when firefighters warned residents to seek shelter again, because another tornado was on its way. Near Pocahontas, Amish farmers had already rebuilt the framing of a carpentry shot destroyed by the May 31 tornado when this third tornado quickly leveled the building again. This storm also crossed the path of the May 31 Salisbury tornado, 3 miles east of town, and continued through extreme northeastern Garrett and Allegany County, Maryland, where it intensified to a violent multi-vortex F4 tornado in and around Frostburg (see more details in the Maryland section). This tornado tracked for an amazing 48 miles, with a path width up to 1 mile in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, before finally dissipating 2 miles north of Cresaptown, Maryland. Shortly prior to the F4 tornado striking Frostburg, Maryland, another F2 tornado formed in southern Fayette County, Pennsylvania, just southwest of the town of Elliotsville. The tornado first touched down at 9:35 pm and tracked 12 miles through Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Preston County, West Virginia; and Garrett County, Maryland.
It destroyed one building and numerous trees. It was classified as an EF2 tornado. The third tornado in Richland was about wide. It tore off a house's roof, throwing debris .
Several people were injured by the tornado, and one person died from the associated flooding. The tornado was the first to hit Brooklyn since 1950 when modern record-keeping began.
Leveler 2 was patched up after the first round, and only really got one flip in on Tornado. Tornado remained in control, and Leveler 2 eventually drove into the pit.
A large tornado outbreak produced 41 tornadoes on March 10–12, killing six people in Alabama, Indiana and Ohio. One tornado rated F4 in Meridian, Mississippi resulted in no fatalities.
A tornado was reported just east of Broadford in Victoria. The tornado had a damage path around wide and long, with numerous trees damaged and damage to a home's roof.
Tansey suffered considerable damage when a tornado struck the community in October 2018. The Bureau of Meteorology said the tornado hit the town just after 3pm on 11 October 2018.
On December 6, a deadly multi-vortex tornado struck the Indonesian city of Bogor. The tornado downed many trees and caused one death when a tree fell onto a car.
An F2 tornado moved through the North Miami Beach, Florida, destroying two homes, damaging 144 homes and businesses, and injuring 21 people. An F1 tornado also struck west of Miami.
On one farm the tornado destroyed 16 buildings containing 250,000 hens. An F2 tornado damaged or destroyed 30 buildings near Uniontown, Alabama. Overall, the outbreak killed two and injured 30.
An F0 tornado caused considerable damage on the southwest side of Fort Pierce South, Florida. Later, an unusually fatal F2 tornado killed one and injured one north of Acadia, Maine.
An F1 tornado killed one and injured two in Lucan, Minnesota. A brief F1 tornado also touched down east of Madison, Nebraska, causing no casualties, but still doing considerable damage.
On 23 November 1981, a minor F0/T1 tornado struck Norwich as part of a record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak, causing minor damage in Norwich city centre and surrounding suburbs.
Some Tornado variants carry different avionics and equipment, depending on their mission. The Tornado ECR operated by Germany and Italy is devoted to Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD) missions.
"Tornado forecast." Flight International, 10 December 1999. In 2005, the RSAF opted to have their Tornado IDSs undergo a series of upgrades to become equivalent to the RAF's GR4 configuration.
On April 24, 2010 Valley Park was the site of a strong tornado, though no injuries were reported.Tornado Report on CNN.com The supercell thunderstorm dropped another tornado in Yazoo City.
"Washington County, Va. tornado victim's names released," Tri-Cities.com, April 30, 2011.Debra McCown, "Local pilot killed in Glade Spring tornado, wife in intensive care," , Tri-Cities.com, April 30, 2011.
The 1921 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado baseball team represented the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1921 NCAA baseball season, winning the SIAA championship.
This tornado was rated low-end EF4, with winds up to . The tornado was on the ground for 33 minutes and traveled . At one point, the tornado reached a maximum path width of . It damaged many buildings and athletic fields at University of Southern Mississippi, Oak Grove High School, and Hattiesburg High School.
64 deaths occurred in Lamar and Forrest Counties alone with that tornado. In the early morning hours of January 21, 2017, a destructive EF3 tornado destroyed many homes and businesses in Hattiesburg and Petal. This tornado was not as powerful as the 2013 event, though it resulted in four fatalities and many injuries.
An F5 tornado hit Flint, Michigan on June 8, 1953. The tornado moved east-northeast north of Flushing and devastated the north side of Flint and Beecher. The tornado first descended about 8:30 p.m. on a humid evening near a drive-in movie theater that was flickering to life at twilight time.
On 18 January 2003, a series of CbFg clouds formed from a severe wildfire, during the 2003 Canberra bushfires in Canberra, Australia. This resulted in a large fire tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita scale: the first confirmed violent fire tornado. The tornado and associated fire killed 4 people and injured 492.
Numerous tornado warnings began to be issued throughout Louisiana as Laura approached the coast on August 26. One tornado was reported by the public in Paincourtville, although no damage occurred. Another tornado was spotted by a trained spotter in Bell City. Coastal water rises began at around 19:00 UTC on August 26.
On June 20, 2010, a tornado touched down in the Billings Heights and Downtown sections of the city. The tornado was accompanied by hail up to golf ball size, dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning, and heavy winds. The tornado destroyed a number of businesses and severely damaged the 12,000-seat MetraPark Arena.
The tornado was a part of a small outbreak of 11 otherwise weak tornadoes and tornadic waterspouts that impacted several countries in Europe that day. An F0 tornado caused roof and chimney damage in the Klagstorp, Sweden area, while another weak tornado caused damage to trees and vehicles in Jönköping County Sweden.
On October 20, a tornado swept through three different villages in Batu, East Java in Indonesia, causing one fatality and destroying about 20 houses. The tornado also snapped several trees and damaged parts of the electricity network within the affected villages. Another tornado was reported near Kedah in Malaysia, destroying two dozen homes.
The tornado initially touched down at 6:03 p.m. CDT (2303 UTC) about west-southwest of El Reno. The storm rapidly grew and became violent. Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile Doppler radars revealed extreme winds in excess of within the tornado.
It tracked east-northeasterly, striking Wakarusa, Indiana, where it killed a child. The tornado moved toward Dunlap, and the Midway trailer park. Elkhart Truth reporter Paul Huffman captured a series of photographs as the twin-funneled, F4 tornado obliterated the trailer park, just south of Dunlap. This initial tornado killed 14 people.
At 8:06 PM CDT (0106 UTC) an F3 touched down East-Northeast of Grantsburg. The tornado continued in an eastward direction moving through the towns of Alpha, Falun and Siren. The tornado moved into Washburn County, where it eventually dissipated near Spooner. The last tornado of the outbreak occurred near Glidden, Iowa.
Arkadelphia Road near Skyline Road was blocked for a time by fallen trees and debris. A total of 70 to 80 homes and businesses sustained damage from the tornado. A third EF3 tornado in Alabama struck a trailer park in Mentone. The tornado destroyed nine of the 11 manufactured homes in the park.
The tornado initially touched down near Creve Coeur Lake around 7:55 p.m. and moved into Maryland Heights where it produced EF3 damage. The tornado continued eastward and reached EF4 intensity in Bridgeton where a number of houses were completely destroyed. Afterwards the tornado traveled parallel to I-70 and struck Lambert-St.
Most of these tornadoes were weak, though an EF2 tornado touched down near the town of Halifax, Virginia, and caused severe damage to homes in the area, resulting in one death. Tornado alerts were issued for Southern Ontario as far north as Ottawa as well; one tornado was later confirmed in Fergus, Ontario.
The Great Tri-State Tornado of March 18, 1925 appears to have begun in Moore Township; most likely as constituent tornadoes of a tornado family preceding the infamous very long tack tornado that went on to kill 695 people across southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana over the next several hours.
A violent, F5 tornado touched down in the Lubbock, Texas area, causing $200 million (1970 USD) in damages. A total of 26 people were killed in the tornado. In the days following the tornado, paramedics and aids from many different towns. Blankets and other useful things arrive at relief shelters in Lubbock.
At 6:13 p.m., a Madison County Sheriff's deputy radioed that the tornado was passing over his car on Butler Road. Also at this time, a Tornado Warning was issued for Jackson County. The tornado continued east of here causing structural damage along Arnold Road and Noles Drive before crossing Mountain Fork.
This page documents the tornadoes and tornado outbreaks of 2002, primarily in the United States. Most tornadoes form in the U.S., although some events may take place internationally. The year had several large outbreaks that included the Veterans Day Weekend tornado outbreak and the Midwest to Mid-Atlantic United States tornado outbreak.
On April 27, 2011, a tornado hit the Poplar Creek area as part of the 2011 Super Outbreak, causing heavy tree and power line damage.NOAA Report The tornado was classified rated EF2, with estimated wind speeds of .NOAA Jackson Report The path of destruction was wide and the tornado travelled a path of .
A tornado outbreak sequence spawned 33 tornadoes from the Great Plains to the Southeastern United States. The strongest and worst event was an F5 tornado that moved through Wichita Falls, Texas. It was the first tornado to ever be captured on live television. Seven people were killed and 111 others were injured.
An outbreak sequence of 14 tornadoes hit the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast. It started with an F1 tornado striking Baudette, Minnesota on September 1. Next, a violent F4 tornado tore through Northern Bristow, Wilmar, Southeastern Packard, and Northern Plainfield, injuring seven. Later, an F1 tornado injured four in Western Rock Falls, Illinois.
The tornado first devastated Falmouth, Kentucky, where it killed 4 people, injured 350, destroyed 180 houses, and damaged another 200. The tornado heavily damaged most of the buildings in Dover. It crossed into Ohio near Ripley, where another person was killed and 30 homes were damaged. In all this tornado killed 6 people.
A pair of low pressure systems brought tornadoes to the eastern half of the United States. An F3 tornado destroyed two homes and damaged 60 homes and 30 industrial buildings on the south side of Birmingham, Alabama. One person was killed while watching the tornado. Another F3 tornado struck southeast of Maysville, Kentucky.
An F2 tornado struck Graball and Rock Bridge, Tennessee, although there were no casualties. This was not the case in Alabama, where the worst tornado of the outbreak occurred. A violent F4 tornado tore through rural areas of Morgan County before moving directly through Falkville. Five people were killed and 20 were injured.
An F1 tornado then hit Kennett, Missouri, injuring one. The last tornado to cause casualties was an F2 tornado then tore through areas just south of Downtown Nashville, hitting the suburban town of Belle Meade, Tennessee near the beginning of its path, injuring four. Overall, the outbreak killed 13 and injured 31.
The next day, an F2 tornado caused considerable damage northeast of Versailles, Illinois. The final tornado of the outbreak was also the strongest: a large wide F3 tornado tore through Carthage and Southern Defeated and Kempville, Tennessee. Similar to the previous outbreak, despite several strong tornadoes taking place, there were no casualties.
The tornado weakened dramatically as it crossed N3250 Road, snapping and uprooting several trees before dissipating near Interstate 35 to the southwest of Wynnewood at 4:27 PM CDT. This tornado was highly photogenic, and it was photographed and caught on video by numerous storm chasers. One person was killed by the tornado.
An oil well also leaked into a creek as a result of the tornado. Most homes in the town of 780 people were left without power. Damages from the tornado amounted to $540,000. A state of emergency was declared for Henderson County on March 30, two days after the tornado hit Corydon.
It then passed through the town of Selma as well as the east side of Georgetown. Throughout Grant Parish, the tornado injured five people and caused $7.5 million in damage. The tornado then entered La Salle Parish with catastrophic results. Heavy damage was done in a rural area before the tornado struck Tullos.
Throughout, Webster and Marion Counties, the tornado injured eight and caused $250,000 in damage. The tornado then moved into Schley County. After moving due east, it abruptly made a left turn northwest of Shiloh and traveled north-northeast, taking it directly into Ellaville. Just outside the latter place, the tornado wrecked five homes.
The tornado struck the northwest side of town, where in a manner similar to what was seen at Murphysboro, a number of densely populated neighborhoods, businesses and mining operations fell victim to the tornado. At the Orient Mine, a large multi-ton coal tipple was blown over and rolled by the tornado.
Two long-track tornadoes touched down in Florida, and traveled across the whole state. One tornado touched down near Largo and tore through Northern Tampa at around 8:00 in the morning. This tornado devastated several communities across Florida, receiving an F4 rating. That tornado killed 11 people, and injured over 500.
On June 21, 1893, at around 7 pm, Williamstown was devastated by a tornado. The tornado passed southeast through Williamstown and the surrounding area. It left a track 1/2 mile wide and 6 miles long. The tornado was particularly violent, destroying everything in its path and knocking over headstones in Underwood Cemetery.
156 Later that day, a tornado skipped along a path through Catahoula and Concordia parishes, touching down three different times. The F2 tornado damaged about 20 trailer homes in Glade, and caused further damage near the end of its track.Grazulis, p. 502 A tornado in southern Georgia, about west of Albany,Grazulis, p.
A 90-year-old woman who suffered a fractured skull during the tornado later suffered a pair of strokes and died on August 5. On May 6, 2018, nearly five years after the tornado, a 14-year-old survivor who suffered posttraumatic stress disorder after losing seven of his friends at Plaza Towers Elementary School committed suicide. The 2013 Moore tornado was the deadliest tornado recorded in the U.S. since the Joplin, Missouri tornado that killed 158 people in May 2011. Patients were taken to Integris Southwest Medical Center and The Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
F4 tornado damage from the Worcester tornado. The tornado descended over the Quabbin Reservoir in Petersham, Massachusetts, at 4:25 P.M., and was witnessed by boaters on the reservoir - three funnels were seen at the beginning, with rapid dissipation of one of them. After brushing Petersham (occasionally with twin funnels several hundred feet apart), the tornado tracked southeastwards and slammed into the rural towns of Barre and Rutland, with two fatalities occurring at each of these locations. The now massive tornado then tore directly through suburban Holden, completely wiping out the Brentwood Estates subdivision, resulting in fatalities.
CDT, storm spotters reported a large tornado on the ground near Millsap in Parker County, which caused roof damage to several homes in the town. This tornado remained on the ground as another tornado began to intensify near Mile Marker 409 on Interstate 20 southeast of Weatherford, Texas at 7:19 p.m. NWS doppler radar briefly detected both tornadoes, indicating the storm was a cyclical supercell (a type of supercell that can produce successive tornadoes), before the Millsap tornado finally dissipated. Survey analysis of the May 15, 2013 EF4 Granbury, Texas tornado detailing the tornado's track.
On the afternoon of June 5, a large tornado was observed by researchers with the VORTEX 2 tornado research project in Goshen County, Wyoming, with the entire life cycle of the tornado being broadcast live on The Weather Channel as part of their coverage of the VORTEX2 project. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 25 minutes and became rain-wrapped at one point, eventually roping out and dissipating. The tornado stayed in open rural areas and damaged only a few trees and telephone poles. It was rated EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale based upon Doppler weather radar measurements.
The tornado finally lifted and dissipated along Burkhardt Road, just west of the border between Montgomery and Greene counties after traveling 20 miles. The tornado was rated as a low- end EF4, with winds of , and had a peak width of just over one-half mile. Despite striking at night and producing major damage in a densely-populated urban area, remarkably, this tornado did not result in any direct fatalities. This was likely because most Dayton area residents heeded the warning issued as the tornado approached the city, and took shelter well before the tornado struck.
A woman was killed in Puerto Rico after being swept away in flood waters. In the United States, Isaias triggered a large tornado outbreak that prompted the issuance of 109 tornado warnings across 12 states, including one for Hampton Roads and another for Dover, Delaware. A total of 39 tornadoes touched down with two people being killed by an EF3 tornado that struck a mobile home park in Windsor, North Carolina on August 4\. This was the strongest tropical cyclone spawned tornado since Hurricane Rita produced an F3 tornado in Clayton, Louisiana on September 24, 2005.
Sean Cameron Casey (born December 28, 1967) is an American IMAX filmmaker and storm chaser who appeared in the Discovery Channel reality television series Storm Chasers.Discovery Channel features Sean Casey Casey created an IMAX film called Tornado Alley about chasing tornadoes and had to build the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) and the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2) to film inside a tornado.Forces of Nature Interview: Director of Photography Sean Casey Tornado Alley was released worldwide on March 18, 2011.Filmmaker hopes to get inside a tornado Casey has been named one of the 50 best minds of 2008 by Discover Magazine.
Some geographic areas are simply more prone to these conditions than others. Some tornado myths are remaining bits of folklore which are passed down by word of mouth. The idea that the southwest corner of a structure is the safest place in a tornado was first published in the 1800s and persisted until the 1990s despite being thoroughly debunked in the 1960s and 70s. One notable instance of mass media spreading a tornado myth was after the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, where TIME magazine ran a caption on a picture suggesting that highway overpasses were safer tornado shelters than houses.
Some examples of tornado couplets include the Tri-State Tornado, multiple tornadoes during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, the 2007 Greensburg tornado, and the 2013 El Reno tornado. Satellite tornadoes are more likely to be recognized in recent decades than in the far past as eyewitness accounts as well as damage survey information are often available for later events. The advent of storm chasing, in particular, boosts the likelihood that satellite tornadoes are noticed visually and/or on mobile radar. These tornadoes may remain over open country and thus cause less structural damage and consequently are less widely known.
Thanks to bombardment by radioactive particles during a tornado, Texas Twister has the psychokinetic ability to accelerate air molecules to high velocity, thereby creating a tornado-like mass of swirling wind around him. Although he usually creates the tornado with himself at the center, he can create tornadoes up to away from his body. He can control the size of the tornado at will and can create a tornado in diameter with outer winds moving at speeds up to . Such a wind swirling about his body is capable of lifting him off the ground and supporting him in midair.
A tornado warning was issued at 333 PM for northern Maury and Williamson Counties as the tornado moved toward the more heavily populated area of Franklin. By 344 PM, another tornado warning was issued for Maury County as another tornado was indicated by Doppler radar in western Maury County, about 15 miles west of Columbia. By 422 PM, a tornado warning was issued for Rutherford and extended for Williamson County until 515 PM. Three tornadoes were indicated by Doppler radar from about 10 miles northeast and 5 miles west of Franklin, Tennessee and also along the Maury-Williamson County line.
A tornado outbreak impacted the southeastern United States. An F4 tornado killed two people and destroyed 30 homes in and near Danielsville, Alabama and traveled on a skipping path, destroying farm buildings near Ramer and seven more homes near Fitzpatrick. A tornado family, the strongest member of which was rated F3, traveled from near Hartsville, South Carolina to south of Fayetteville, North Carolina, unroofing homes, overturning trailers, destroying barns, and killing more than 1000 chickens. Another F3 tornado or tornado family tore roofs from buildings in Roseboro, North Carolina, destroyed a small home near Faison, and leveled a tobacco farm.
At this point of devastation, one person received major injuries from the tornado and died two days later; Chuck Dale, 30 years of age, was the one fatality of the tornado. Around this time, a Tornado Warning was issued for Madison County to give residents on the northwest side of the county an opportunity to take cover; tornado sirens were activated at 5:43 p.m., one minute after the warning was issued. Meanwhile, the tornado began to move slightly north of east, moving across Mooresville Road and crossing through the Copeland community near the intersection of Copeland Road and East Limestone Road.
The tornado became the subject of several scientific papers analyzing the life cycle of and wind speed speeds in a tornado. Among the studies was the first-ever photogrammetric analysis of wind speeds in a tornado. The film of the tornado is still regarded as being of exceptionally high quality and sharpness. Additionally, another major tornado event struck the densely populated areas of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex on March 28, 2000, when F3 tornadoes struck Downtown Fort Worth as well as Arlington, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of people while damaging or destroying several structures, including several office towers.
The tornado outbreak of March 21–22, 1952, also known as the March 1952 Southern United States tornado outbreak, generated eleven violent tornadoes across the Southern United States, which is the fourth-largest number of F4–F5 events produced by a single outbreak. Only the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, the 1974 Super Outbreak, and the 2011 Super Outbreak surpassed this number. The outbreak caused 209 fatalities–50 of which occurred in a single tornado in Arkansas. The severe weather event also resulted in the fourth- largest number of tornado fatalities within a 24-hour period since 1950.
EF3 tornado in Mayfield, KY. A significant tornado outbreak occurred across an area extending from Colorado to Kentucky, beginning with a large multiple-vortex EF2 tornado that tossed several RVs and injured two people near Wiggins, Colorado on May 7. Later that evening, a large stovepipe tornado caused high-end EF2 damage near Wray, while several other tornadoes tracked across other very rural areas of Colorado, causing no damage. Scattered tornadoes occurred on May 8, most of which were weak. However, a strong EF2 tornado caused considerable damage to outbuildings and high-voltage transmission line poles near Catharine, Kansas.
Tornado damage in Hampton, South Carolina The tornado outbreak spawned by Bill was the greatest in the Charleston, South Carolina National Weather Service area since the outbreak provoked by Hurricane Earl in 1998. One such tornado was an F1 that struck Hampton, which uprooted trees and downed power lines. The tornado severely damaged a Dollar General store, while several houses were damaged from fallen trees. An F1 tornado also touched down near Smoaks, which uprooted several trees, resulted in a crushed car due to a fallen tree, caused severe roof damage to a mobile home, and killed one dog.
Aerial view of Del City after the tornado Tornado victims' memorial A large area of Del City was significantly damaged by the Bridge Creek–Moore F5 tornado that passed through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area on May 3, 1999. The tornado first touched down southwest of the community of Amber. The funnel was approximately a half-mile wide when it entered Del City as an F4 from the west near the intersection of S.E. 44th Street and Spiva Drive. The tornado continued on a north-northeast trajectory, exiting the city near Sooner Road and Woodview Drive.
Then, right at midnight the next day, an F2 tornado moved through Eastern Kansas City before striking the northeastern suburan towns of Birmingham and Liberty, Missouri, although there were no casualties. That afternoon, a brief, but strong F2 tornado that moved directly through Hudsonville, Michigan, causing extensive damage. This came just over a year after an F5 tornado caused catastrophic damage to the south side of town. The final strong tornado of the outbreak was another brief F2 tornado that hit the southwest side of Bay City, Michigan, although additional weak tornadoes were confirmed into the early morning hours of June 23.
The 2003 South Dakota tornado outbreak, known locally as "Tornado Tuesday", was a tornado outbreak that occurred in the southeastern and east central part of South Dakota in the United States on June 24, 2003. At the time, this outbreak tied a United States record for the most tornado touchdowns in a single day for one state, with 67. The event was part of a larger outbreak that produced 125 tornadoes. However this record was surpassed by a tornado outbreak in Kansas on May 23, 2008 when 73 tornadoes hit the state, including two that started in Oklahoma.
Following the impact of the EF3 tornado, emergency management officials discovered that four of the ten sirens which were supposed to go off when the tornado warning was issued for Henderson County did not function. Emergency management personnel worked to replace the batteries in all ten sirens in the days after the tornado but lacked the supplies to complete this. Since the battery replacement was not completed, two more sirens failed on April 2 when a possible tornado touched down in the same area. After the April 2 event, the repair of the tornado sirens was completed and they were all working.
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a powerful and catastrophic EF5-rated multiple- vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011. It was part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak and reached a maximum width of nearly during its path through the southern part of the city. This particular tornado was unusual in that it intensified in strength and grew larger in size at a very fast rate. The tornado tracked eastward across the city, and then continued eastward across Interstate 44 into rural portions of Jasper and Newton counties.
The tornado then approached Range Line Road, the main commercial strip in the eastern part of Joplin, affecting additional neighborhoods along 20th Street. Safe deposit box vault after the tornado The now heavily rain-wrapped tornado continued at EF5 intensity as it crossed Range Line Road. In that corridor between about 13th and 32nd Streets, the tornado continued producing catastrophic damage as it was at its widest at this point, being nearly wide. As the tornado hit the Pizza Hut at 1901 South Range Line Road, store manager Christopher Lucas herded four employees and 15 customers into a walk-in freezer.
This was the first tornado to hit the Tulsa area in the month of August since 1958 (and only the 3rd to strike the area since 1950), the tornado injured 26 people – with two seriously injured – in the east part of the city. Even with the tornado detectable on radar, the Tulsa County Emergency Management Agency did not begin civil defense sirens in the area because the National Weather Service did not issue a tornado warning until 1:25 a.m., after which time an EF1 tornado had entered Broken Arrow, damaging multiple home roofs and several large tree branches.
An EF1 tornado touched down near Stanley, nearly destroying a wall on one house and causing minor damage to others. It also deroofed multiple barns and sheds and leveled corn and tobacco crops; the total damage from the tornado was estimated at $110,000. Another EF1 tornado occurred between Maceo and Yelvington, causing $3,000 in damage to trees and the soffit of a house. An EF0 tornado near Lewisport and Adair downed tree limbs and snapped tree trunks, blocking roads and damaging the roof of a house; the tornado also damaged the metal roof of a barn.
The tornado occurred in an open field with no damage observed. At 4:31 pm CDT (2131 UTC), an EF1 tornado touched down southwest of Dwight in Livingston County, snapping power poles and damaging trees and roofs; this tornado lifted at 4:45 pm CDT (2145 UTC). From 5:18 pm CDT (2218 UTC) to 5:46 pm CDT (2246 UTC), an EF2 tornado traveled across southwestern Will County and extreme northwestern Kankakee County, near Wilmington, uprooting trees, damaging homes and destroying sheds. At 5:51 pm CDT (2251 UTC), an EF2 tornado touched down for three minutes in central Will County near Wilton Center, destroying a garage and severely damaging a metal building. From 5:55 pm CDT (2255 UTC) to 6:08 pm CDT (2308 UTC), an EF2 tornado occurred west of Monee, leveling barns, garages, and outbuildings and damaging homes. An EF2 tornado re-formed at 6:13 pm CDT (2313 UTC), injuring six people as it crossed Interstate 57. Southwest portions of Omaha, Nebraska sustained significant damage from an early-morning tornado on June 8 As the tornado moved into more densely populated southern Cook County, it destroyed homes in Richton Park.
A devastating tornado that started in nearby Woodstock would devastate several tobacco farms in the tobacco belt back during the late 1970s.Newark, M. (Autumn 1979). The Woodstock Tornado. Chinook, 1, 9.
A total of 350 people were also injured in storm. This was the deadliest tornado event in the region since the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak in April of that year.
Five years prior to these tornadoes, areas near Gladstone were hit by an F4 tornado that caused extensive damage while a strong tornado also hit near Liberty during the same outbreak.
Numerous trees and power poles were snapped as well. This was the strongest tornado to strike Cuba in nearly 80 years, when an F4 tornado struck Bejucal on December 26, 1940.
The tornado outbreak began on Palm Sunday, an important holy day for most Christians. Thus, many people were attending church services, which may explain why some tornado warnings were never received.
The tornado that impacted the Perryville area tracked at least 50 miles and was also the first violent tornado of 2017. Overall, this outbreak produced 72 tornadoes and killed four people.
A cold front brought storms to France and Germany. An F4 tornado struck tore through the Black Forest and Pforzheim, killing 2 people and injuring 300. An F3 tornado struck Uberach.
On February 10, 2009, a tornado killed eight people in Lone Grove.Jackson, Ron, James Tyree and Johnny Johnson. - "Oklahoma tornado leaves 9 confirmed dead; three found alive, but trapped". - The Oklahoman.
Just over a month after the previous tornado, an isolated, brief, but stronger F3 tornado touched down on the northeast side of Fort Pierce South, Florida, killing two and injuring two.
The final tornado of the outbreak then touched down and became an F1 tornado that tracked through rural Hopkins County, Kentucky, injuring one. Overall, the outbreak killed two and injured two.
The final tornado of the outbreak was a strong F3 tornado that injured 29 near Rose Hill and Magnolia, North Carolina. In the end, the outbreak killed seven and injured 223.
Particular damage was caused in Woad Lane with the tornado "leaving a trail of destruction in its wake"."Tornado hits Long Sutton"; Spalding Guardian 23 June 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
The tornado was a mile wide when it struck the city of Cactus. Buildings were flattened, power was knocked out to thousands, and debris was scattered for miles after the tornado.
The tornado outbreak sequence of May–June 1917 was an eight-day tornado event, known as a tornado outbreak sequence, that killed at least 383 people, mostly in the Midwestern and parts of the Southeastern United States. It was the most intense and the longest continuous tornado outbreak sequence on record, with at least 66 tornadoes including 15 that were analyzed to have been violent (F4–F5) based upon reported damage. The deadliest tornado of the entire sequence produced a track across Illinois, killing 101 people and devastating the towns of Charleston and Mattoon along with small farming communities. Once believed to have traveled cross Illinois and into Indiana, it is now assessed to have been a tornado family of four to eight separate tornadoes.
Windows and outer walls of the Bank One Building in downtown Fort Worth, Texas were damaged by the 2000 Fort Worth tornado. It is a commonly held belief that tornadoes cannot strike downtown areas, but Fort Worth is just one of many cities whose central business districts have been struck by significant tornadoes. Tornado myths are incorrect beliefs about tornadoes, which can be attributed to many factors, including stories and news reports told by people unfamiliar with tornadoes, sensationalism by news media, and the presentation of incorrect information in popular entertainment. Common myths cover various aspects of the tornado, and include ideas about tornado safety, the minimization of tornado damage, and false assumptions about the size, shape, power, and path of the tornado itself.
The storm that was responsible for the Saragosa tornado developed during the late afternoon north of Balmorhea and had very little motion for several hours, moving only slightly across southwestern Texas. By the early evening, it acquired supercellular characteristics, and cloud tops reached 60,000 feet high. A Tornado warning was issued for Reeves County before 8:00 PM after a wall cloud was spotted, and a brief tornado touched down near Balmorhea at 8:10 PM. However, at 8:16 PM, another tornado touched down just east of the town about from Saragosa, north of Interstate 10. Initially, it destroyed farms and outbuildings before evolving into a large multiple vortex tornado before entering Saragosa while intensifying sharply into a violent F4 tornado.
A man injured at Lawson's Trailer Park in the first tornado was taken to a church in the area, which collapsed in the second tornado, killing him. After devastating what was left of Tanner, the tornado continued across rural Limestone County and into Madison County, where the communities of Capshaw and Harvest were devastated once again. Numerous homes throughout Madison County were swept completely away, with extensive wind-rowing of debris noted once again. Past Harvest, the tornado swept away multiple additional homes in the Hazel Green area. The tornado continued northeastward through rural portions of Madison County before crossing into Tennessee, where major damage and 6 deaths occurred in Franklin and Lincoln Counties before the tornado dissipated in Coffee County.
One tornado was reported in the U.S.A. in January.
The 2001 Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. tornado outbreak brought an F3 tornado on a direct path crossing Whiskey Bottom Road. The tornado lifted momentarily and set back down on the other side of the road. Nearby buildings just a few hundred feet North and South of the road showed significant tornado damage. North Laurel Community Center opening June 3, 2011 In 2009, the primary entrance to the North Laurel Community Center was realigned to Whiskey Bottom Road.
A second F0 occurred later in the evening in the Maniago area, where it damaged trees and roofs, as well as flattened crops. The strongest tornado of the day occurred in Spain, where a large, wedge-shaped tornadic waterspout off the coast of Mallorca moved ashore near Banyalbufar, becoming an F2 tornado. After moving ashore, the tornado passed through a densely forested area, flattening a large swath of trees. A few homes were damaged by the tornado as well.
In May 1957, a tornado cut a significant path through major businesses and neighborhoods of Ruskin Heights. Rated an F5 on the fujita scale, the tornado was the largest of the May 1957 Central Plains tornado outbreak sequence, and is ofter called the Ruskin Heights tornado. The town has since been rebuilt. As Kansas City's African-American population expanded, Ruskin Heights became more diversified during the 1970s and saw its first African-American families move into the area.
An example to confirm this occurred in April 1991, when a very powerful tornado struck the town of Andover, Kansas. When the town was hit, eighty-four homes and fourteen businesses were destroyed by the tornado, but with no fatalities and only minor injuries. After the tornado hit Andover, it swept through a mobile home park consisting of 223 trailers. The park did have a tornado shelter, to which over 200 residents fled and survived without injuries.
In early January, a major winter storm affected nearly the entire Contiguous United States, including widespread blizzard conditions in the Midwest. Along the southern edge of the storm, an early season tornado outbreak took place across the Gulf Coast. The first tornado was an F3 that killed one person and injured 17 others in Newton County, Mississippi, becoming the first killer January tornado since 1978. Sixty structures were damaged or destroyed by the tornado, leaving $2 million in losses.
USS Tornado also holds the distinction, other than USS Constitution, of being the last active U.S. Navy warship with all crew served weapons. In October 2018, USS Tornado was a participant in the 2018 Baltimore Fleet Week. In May 2019, USS Tornado participated in Fleet Week being docked at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. On March 1st, 2019, USS Tornado deployed for patrol in the 4th Fleet area of responsibility, her first deployment in over 5 years.
The Lone Grove tornado was the deadliest to strike Oklahoma since May 3, 1999, and the strongest tornado during the month of February in Oklahoma since 1950. The previous strongest were two F3 tornadoes which touched down on February 17, 1961. Preliminary track of the tornado The tornado destroyed businesses and residences across a swath over wide and long. In Lone Grove alone, buildings were thrown off their slabs and the local chamber of commerce office was flattened.
On June 19, an EF1 tornado hit Eastern Springfield, Missouri at around 3:30 pm CDT (2030 UTC). The tornado uprooted trees and damaged buildings, including causing a roof to collapse at a furniture store. It was the second tornado to hit the city in 2008; the first was an EF1 that hit the downtown area on January 8. An EF1 tornado also hit Chatham County, Georgia, damaging a fire station and knocking a steeple off a church.
Southern Ontario usually receives about a dozen tornadoes each year, with most of them occurring between May and September. April and October tornadoes are much less common, and tornadoes rarely occur outside of those time frames. This November 9 tornado was the latest tornado in a year recorded in Ontario since an F2 tornado hit near Exeter on December 12, 1946. The only other tornado this late in the season occurred near Leamington on November 29, 1919.
2008 tornado lifted this school bus and flipped it on top of a damaged elementary school in Caledonia, Mississippi. Often people try to avoid or outrun a tornado in a vehicle. Although cars can travel faster than the average tornado, the directive from the National Weather Service is for house-dwellers in the path of a tornado to take shelter at home rather than risk an escape by vehicle. This is a result of several factors and statistics.
In the first three months of the year, the number of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks were low to moderate. Then from April to August each month had over a hundred outbreaks. The fall season saw fewer tornadoes with the exception of a moderate outbreak in November. The killer F4 tornado that struck Piedmont, Alabama on Palm Sunday (a date of infamous tornado outbreaks in 1965 and 1920) killed 22 people, the most since the 1990 Plainfield, Illinois tornado.
The tornado blew down 20 large trees and damaged power lines in Cassville. Thereafter, the tornado increased greatly in size and intensity as it passed between White and Rydal, with the first and only F4 damage occurring in a rural area northwest of Canton. There, the wide tornado leveled "five two-story brick and wood homes" to the ground in the Indian Springs subdivision. The tornado also severely damaged eight to 10 other homes and slightly damaged 12–15.
The Marion, Illinois tornado outbreak was a small, severe tornado outbreak that affected southern portions of the midwestern United States on May 29, 1982. Tornadoes touched down in the states of Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana, with Marion, Illinois, being the hardest hit. Ten fatalities occurred there after the town took a direct hit from an F4 tornado. The outbreak also produced an F3 tornado affecting the Conant, Illinois, area and several weaker tornadoes in the surrounding area.
The tornado continued toward the Mississippi River resulting in mostly EF1 damage to trees, however EF2 damage occurred in Dellwood where extensive tree and utility pole damage occurred and three homes lost their roofs. EF2 damage continued as the tornado crossed into Illinois where about a hundred homes were damaged, three of which lost their roofs, and numerous trees were uprooted and snapped. Windows boarded up at STL after the tornado The tornado hit Lambert-St.
During the April 3, 2012, tornado outbreak a severe thunderstorm produced an EF-2 tornado in Eastern Kennedale which moved North East across 287 near Stagetrail Drive and continued in a North North-Eastern direction. The tornado contained winds up to 135 MPH and damaged over 200 homes and businesses, including severe damage suffered by the Green Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, and injured seven people before the tornado lifted on the shores of Lake Arlington.
Damage along this portion of the path consisted of minor damage to homes, along with numerous trees and tree limbs downed. Weakening further to EF0 strength, the tornado decreased in width and finally dissipated while crossing Jupiter Road. In total, the tornado was on the ground for , reached a maximum width of , and remained on the ground for 32 minutes. Additionally, the tornado caused about $1.55 billion in damage, making it the costliest tornado event in Texas history.
An F2 tornado touched down at approximately 5:25 AM in the town of Mattoon, Illinois. Winds reached around 152 miles per hour and damaged over 90 homes damaged and eight homes and six businesses were destroyed. Tornado Warnings were in effect but had expired at 5:00 AM leaving no warning from tornado sirens or trained spotters in the field. Unusually, the tornado spawned at the back end of a storm instead of the front.
The latter two tornadoes damaged or destroyed 110 structures in Suffolk with losses estimated at $2.2 million. Around sunrise, a high-end EF2 tornado caused considerable damage in Palmer and Kilmarnock, Virginia, injuring five. As that tornado dissipated around 6:00 am, another EF2 tornado struck Mardela Springs, Maryland, knocking down several trees and lifting a home off its foundation. Yet another EF2 tornado touched down in George Island Landing, Maryland, around 7:20 am, destroying several chickenhouses.
One school bus was carried and rolled a quarter mile while another was overturned, injuring 14 students The tornado killed another 2 people south of Harrisville, and 10 people in 4 farm homes. In Rankin County the tornado leveled homes and tossed pickup trucks, but did not cause any deaths. An F2 tornado west of Dover, Tennessee destroyed 5 homes and 10 tobacco barns, injuring 3 people. An F1 tornado also touched down in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
Eight tornadoes struck South Florida, including an F2 tornado that struck the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami and caused one death and 14 injuries. The fatality was the first tornado-related death in Miami-Dade County since 1925. As a result of that tornado, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) dispersed over $8.4 million in funds. Additionally, an F1 tornado struck North Miami Beach and caused damage to trees and roofs, but no injuries were reported.
Four tornadoes were reported in western France on January 1, including two strong EF2 tornadoes. The first tornado touched down and completely destroyed a wind turbine at EF2 strength near Bouin, in the region of Pays de la Loire. The second tornado was a weak and brief EF0 tornado that hit Saint-Paul-Mont- Penit, again in Pays de la Loire. This tornado damaged an equestrian center, tossed a trampoline, downed trees, and damaged the roof of a school.
A destructive outbreak of nine tornadoes struck the Mississippi Valley and the Midwest during the overnight hours of November 5–6, 2005. The worst event was an F3 tornado that formed early in the morning of November 6, 2005, outside of Evansville, Indiana, United States. It was the first of several tornado events that November. The tornado resulted in 24 confirmed fatalities across the region, making it the deadliest and most destructive November tornado in Indiana's history.
Despite the large number of tornadoes, only one death resulted, which occurred as a result of an F1 tornado in Mississippi on September 24\. However, another F1 tornado near Starkville, Mississippi injured seven people on September 25 making it the tornado with the most injuries during the outbreak. The same tornado was also the costliest, causing $2 million in damages. Overall, tornadoes during the outbreak killed one person and injured 23, and caused $18.373 million in damages.
Hurricane Carla triggered a tornado outbreak in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Michigan before, during, and after making landfall in Matagorda Island, Texas and accelerating as it turned to the northeast through the Midwest and the Great Lakes. On September 10, an F3 tornado swept through Kaplan and Cossinade, Louisiana, killing one and injuring 55. Later, an F2 tornado hit Downtown Morgan City, Louisiana injuring 16. The next day, an F2 tornado injured two west of Alton, Louisiana.
The first major outbreak of the year struck areas from the Great Plains to the Ohio Valley. The worst tornado occurred on March 13, when an F4 tornado struck the towns of Jud, O'Brien, and Knox City, Texas, killing 17 and injuring 25. The same day, a destructive F3 tornado killed one and injured eight in Bradley, Oklahoma. A long-tracked F3 tornado family passed over Lake Murray State Park and struck Earl, Oklahoma, killing two and injuring 11.
Later, a violent F4 tornado, which moved in an odd west-northwest direction, tore through areas north of Manchester, Alabama, killing four and injuring 15. An F1 tornado then injured three in rural Cullman County, Alabama before an F2 tornado hit Southern Fort Worth, injuring two. November 18 was the most violent day of the outbreak as 23 tornadoes touched down across six days. That morning in Mississippi, an F2 tornado moved through Holcut and Iuka, injuring two.
Yet another tornado outbreak hit Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee. However, this time it was part of a violent, destructive, and deadly outbreak sequence of 72 tornadoes that struck a large portion of the Midwest and the Southeast. On April 2, the first major tornado of the outbreak occurred in rural Grayson County, Texas, where a brief, but strong F2 tornado injured two. Later, an F3 tornado hit the west side of Melissa and Van Alstyne injuring four.
An outbreak of nine tornadoes struck the Great Plains and the Mississippi Valley. The first major tornado occurred on the evening of March 14, when a massive wide F2 tornado hit Moorefield and Charlotte, Arkansas, causing major damage. Later, another large F2 tornado hit areas north of Lonsdale, Arkansas in between Owensville and Crows, killing one and injuring seven. At the same time, another F2 tornado struck Moko, Arkansas and Lanton, Missouri, killing one and injuring 15.
The 2010 Bronx tornado was a rare EF1 tornado which struck the Bronx in New York City, United States, touching down there on July 25, 2010 and traveled during its ten-minute track. The tornado, which was the second ever tornado recorded in the Bronx, touched down around 2:55 p.m. EDT in Riverdale, located within the Bronx, causing damage to buildings, trees, cars, and power lines. Seven people were injured along its track due to broken glass.
The Easter weekend 1999 tornado outbreak was a series of tornado touchdowns which occurred on April 2–3, 1999 from Kansas to Louisiana. The most powerful tornado occurred in Caddo Parish and Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana where an F4 tornado killed 7 people and injured 107 others. Damages from the outbreak were estimated to be near $13.7 million (2006 USD). A total of 17 tornadoes were confirmed across the southern Great Plains during the two-day event.
Few injuries or deaths occurred as many residents took shelter in safe areas of their homes. Two people suffered minor injuries when the tornado destroyed a shop near Trinity. The next tornado touched down near Alliance in Jefferson County. An F2 tornado with a path, the tornado downed trees and destroyed one barn, a few outbuildings, and two buildings at a church campus, while the other buildings at the church suffered damage to their roofs and windows.
A tornado touched down in Jackson County, but caused no damage other than uprooted trees. The cyclone then generated a very brief tornado in Labuco, a community in western Jefferson County, damaging one home. The next tornado was also very briefly, touching down in Barfield, where it unroofed a chicken house. Another tornado occurred in Madison County, moving from just north of Madison to just southeast of Jeff, downing trees and damaging some mobile homes before lifting.
The most significant tornado of the event was a damaging EF2 that heavily damaged numerous homes, completely destroyed many garages and outbuildings, and snapped numerous trees in the southern part of Delavan, Illinois. Some homes had their roofs torn off, and one had its entire second story ripped off. In total, the Delavan tornado damaged 51 homes in town, 15 of which sustained major impacts. The tornado developed and dissipated so quickly that a tornado warning was never issued.
The tornado was part of an atmospheric river event pointed straight at the Pacific Northwest causing $18 billion (2018 USD) of damage between December 10 and December 25. This system caused flooding, severe erosion, and widespread power outages. Washington Governor Jay Inslee sought funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for damages caused during the prolonged stormy period, including for the Port Orchard tornado. There was not a tornado warning issued for the storm that produced the tornado.
The next tornado was spawned near Melbourne Beach and removed the second floor of beachfront house. The third tornado damaged trees and power lines in Palm Bay. A fourth tornado in West Melbourne destroyed a large portion of an apartment roof, flipped-over a car and damaged two others. It also felled fences and trees.
Gerona had been sent from Cádiz under the command of captain Benito Ruiz de la Escalera specifically to capture Tornado and its sister ship, Cyclone. The firing of the charges alerted Gerona of the presence of Tornado and Gerona gave chase. At 22:30 Gerona fired a blank shot. Tornado continued to ignore the intent.
South of Bushong, a boy was blown through a window and injured his leg. Near Dunlap, the tornado destroyed 16 cottages on Lake Kahola. A fourth tornado likely developed east of Harveyville and passed west of Auburn and through Seabrook. In Seabrook, the tornado broke glass, blew out bricks, and damaged trees and TV aerials.
Path of the Hallam tornado. Damage near Norris School. The Hallam tornado formed west and northwest of Daykin at 7:30 pm CDT as an F1 on the Fujita Scale (the EF scale had not been established yet in 2004). One satellite tornado, rated an F1 in intensity, formed and quickly dissipated northeast of town.
The tornado tracked directly through Chappaqua before moving towards the Hudson River. Upon reaching the river, the tornado became a waterspout that was powerful enough to uncover the river bed below it. The waterspout eventually dissipated by 4:00 pm EST. The tornado was later rated as F3 on the modern-day Fujita scale.
Numbers for 1982 were slightly above average, both in terms of number of tornadoes and number of fatalities. Probably the most notable tornado events of the year was the April 2–3 tornado outbreak resulting in 29 fatalities primarily in Texas and Oklahoma and the May 29 Marion, Illinois tornado which killed ten people.
A small, but deadly tornado outbreak occurred over the Upper Midwest of the United States. An F0 tornado near Littlefork, Minnesota lifted and moved a mobile home, killing its two occupants. It is Minnesota's most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths. Other minor tornadoes occurred in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, causing limited damage.
The 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak of March 28, 1984 was the most destructive tornado outbreak to sweep through the two states since the Enigma tornado outbreak struck 100 years and 1 month earlier, according to NOAA and NCDC public records. 24 tornadoes (seven of F4 strength) resulted in 57 fatalities and over one thousand injuries.
President Bush talks with the media after walking through the tornado damage at Enterprise High School. The National Guard was called into Enterprise in the aftermath of the tornado. Governor Bob Riley mobilized about 100 troops and placed more on standby. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on the community after the tornado strike.
As Tropical Storm Conson trekked through the Philippines, its outer bands spawned a tornado in Koronadal City, destroying 13 homes and flattening agricultural land. On July 16, another tornado struck the country, touching down in South Cotabato province. The tornado was responsible for at least 3 million pesos (US$65,000) of agricultural and property losses.
The island of Jamaica was affected by Tropical Storm Nicole. In Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, the storm spawned a very rare tornado accompanied by heavy rains. Although short lived, two homes were destroyed and 12 others were damaged by the tornado, recording a very unlikely occurrence of a tornado in the Caribbean, particularly in Jamaica.
The first tornado (believed to be an F2 tornado) thrashed the University of Texas campus, removing roofs from some buildings and completely destroying others. No one at the University was seriously hurt. The tornado next destroyed trees and damaged buildings at Deep Eddy. It then struck Oak Hill, demolishing a house and killing six people.
The tornado severely damaged or destroyed a number of homes in the Jones Valley subdivision. It continued across Jones Valley moving up Huntsville Mountain. The area from Huntsville Mountain to the end of the tornado path is rural with only scattered structures. The tornado continued to destroy or severely damage whatever structures it encountered.
The next day, a rare F2 tornado struck Lapwai, Idaho, only the second of 10 official F2 tornadoes to hit the state. The final tornado of the outbreak then occurred as a fatal F2 tornado killed one and injured two northwest of Amber Lake, Virginia. In the end, the outbreak killed one and injured seven.
A low pressure system produced tornado from Louisiana to Georgia. An F3 tornado struck Clanton, Alabama, destroying 15 homes, 3trailers, and 10 barns and damaging several homes and a motel. A fisherman drowned on Lake Mitchell and 24 people were injured. Another F3 tornado tossed cars and tore apart a home near Waycross, Georgia.
June 12 saw less significant tornado activity. An F2 tornado skipped parallel to the Platte River in southern Nebraska,from near Kearney to near Wood River, destroying a barn, granaries, and sheds. An brief F1 tornado (rated F2 by Grazulis) destroyed one home and damage several others on the north side of Kansas City, Missouri.
Yet another destructive and deadly tornado outbreak hit Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Iowa with all the casualties occurring in Oklahoma. On April 23, an F2 tornado killed one and injured four northeast of Weleetka, Oklahoma. A brief, but large, .5 mile wide F3 tornado touched down right over Alma, Arkansas, although there were no casualties.
Another F1 tornado injured one in rural Cullman County. Tornadic activity became more severe and deadly into the evening hours. An F2 tornado slammed through Pickwick, Cheraw, Natcole, and Columbia, injuring two. A disastrous F2 tornado then hit the Northeastern Birmingham suburbs of Fultondale and Southern Center Point, Alabama, killing one and injuring 35.
An outbreak of 18 tornadoes hit the Great Plains and the Mississippi Valley. Early on April 28, a long-tracked F3 tornado hit Alexandria and De Witt, Nebraska, injuring one. Later, a fatal F1 tornado struck southwest of Sunrise Hills, Illinois, killing two. The next day, an F3 tornado hit Barton, and Walnut Corner, Arkansas.
An outbreak of mostly strong F2 tornadoes struck the Southeast. On February 19, an F2 tornado struck Tunica, Louisiana killing one and injuring four. On February 20, a long-tracked F2 tornado moved through Sumrall and Sanford, Mississippi, injuring 10. Another F2 tornado moved through areas northwest of Little Rock, Mississippi, injuring another 10.
5 mile-wide F4 tornado tore through the northeast side of Gans, Oklahoma, killing 10 and injuring 20. Another .5 mile-wide F2 tornado then tore through areas north of Bismarck, Arkansas. After that, an F3 tornado tore through areas northeast of Princeton, Louisiana in east-northeastern suburbs of Shreveport killing three and injuring nine.
Orange had already been considerablely damaged earlier in the year by an F1 tornado on April 30, but this one was more destructive. Later on, a weak but deadly F1 tornado killed one and injured 13 in Carencro, Louisiana. At the same time, an F3 tornado killed one and injured 10 in Cankton, Louisiana.
An outbreak sequence of 14 tornadoes hit the Midwest and the Mississippi Valley. On June 10, a brief, but strong F2 tornado hit Casselton, North Dakota. On June 11, an F1 tornado hit Clarksdale, Mississippi, killing one. On June 12, the final tornado, which was rated F0, injured three in Jamestown West, New York.
The rural community of Camp Creek south of Greeneville was severely affected by an EF-3 tornado in 2011 Super Outbreak.Ken Little, "Fourth Tornado Confirmed: This One In Houston Valley Area," Greeneville Sun May 13, 2011. Six people were killed immediately and a seventh died later."Six Greene County tornado victims identified," Tri-Cities.
In Texas high tides caused coastal flooding but little damage. Edith caused moderate to heavy damage in portions of Louisiana due to flooding and a tornado outbreak from the storm. One tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita Scale, damaged several homes and injured multiple people in Baton Rouge. The tornado outbreak extended eastward into Florida.
Onalaska was struck by a F2 tornado on May 1, 1967. The tornado unroofed a combined store and post office ripped out its rear wall injuring two people. The town was hit again by an even stronger EF3 tornado on April 22, 2020, which damaged many homes, killed three people, and injured 33 others.
Several other homes were unroofed, and a woman was carried some distance, but only suffered minor injuries. The tornado continued northeast into Massachusetts as far as Mendon, from where it touched down. The fourth known tornado was first spotted near Northborough, Massachusetts. The tornado caused more severe damage along the border between Marlborough and Southborough.
An EF-1 tornado touched down March 4, 2008, on Highway 58, running through downtown. The tornado caused a 300 yard wide, one mile long path of damage. It destroyed six homes, caused major damage to 15 homes, and minor damage to 25 others. The tornado hit an area of the town named Poplar Hill.
Intense tornado activity in the United States. The darker- colored areas denote the area commonly referred to as Tornado Alley. Tornadoes kill an average of 179 people per year in Bangladesh, the most in the world. Reasons for this include the region's high population density, poor construction quality, and lack of tornado safety knowledge.
Like the 2008 Atlanta tornado that struck downtown Atlanta, this storm caused an estimated $250 million in damage. This was far more than the also well- remembered "governor's tornado" in March 1975.
Some time after the tornado died out, the U.S. National Guard arrived in Depauw to interview and help the people in the town. The tornado that went through Depauw killing 6 people.
The tornado struck Plainfield, Illinois, around 3:28 p.m. Around 3:30 p.m. the tornado directly struck the Plainfield High School, killing three people, including a science teacher and two maintenance workers.
A tornado touched down at Clarksburg and was rated F2. This tornado had a 9 km path from south of Thornbury to the southeast, affecting Blue Mountain before passing onto Georgian Bay.
The tornado passed into Otoe County, disappearing just west of Palmyra at 9:10. The tornado had a path length of about 54 miles, and was on the ground for 100 minutes.
Grazulis, p. 940 A tornado destroyed three homes in the city of Opa- locka, where damage reached $15,000. The tornado flipped cars and inflicted extensive damage at the Royal Palm dairy farm.
The tornado persisted as it headed northeast toward the Evergreen Mobile Home Park. There, the tornado completely destroyed nearly 200 mobile homes in the area, killed 15 people and injured numerous others.
The Tornado outbreak of January 17–18, 1999 was the second of three major tornado outbreaks in January 1999. It was followed several days later by the largest January outbreak on record.
An F2 tornado struck Logan Elm Village, Circleville, and Stoutsville, Ohio, injuring three. Thousands of miles away, an unusual F1 tornado passed over Tule Lake west of Homestead, California with no casualties.
When adjusted for wealth the figure jumps to $1 billion (1997 dollars), which ranks it 10th costliest tornado, ahead of the Oklahoma City area tornado in 1999. A total of 85 were killed with additional deaths outside the two cities and 300 others were injured. While the Fujita scale was not existent at the time, the damage was estimated to be at around F4.US F4 , F5 TORNADOES Normalized Damage from Major Tornadoes in the United States: 1896-19991924: Lorain Tornado There are still some uncertainties on whether the Sandusky-Lorain tornado was a single tornado event due to the 25-mile path of the storm across Lake Erie between Sandusky and Lorain, however many eyewitnesses showed a single severe storm crossing the Lake before coming on-shore again just after 5:00 PM.NOTES on the Lorain Tornado of 6-28-24, Avon, Ohio At the time, it was the second deadliest tornado ever in the northern United States behind the New Richmond Tornado in northern Wisconsin in 1899 and 13th overall.
One person was killed in North Carolina. The second tornado outbreak lasted for 24 hours on May 10–11 and produced the deadliest tornado of the outbreak sequence. Twenty-one people were killed from a tornado that traveled across northeastern Oklahoma and southern Missouri. Three other people were killed including two in Georgia and one more in Missouri.
After the Fort Worth tornado dissipated, another thunderstorm developed over Johnson County, tracking northeastward into Tarrant County and eventually merging with the supercell that had produced the earlier F3 tornado. The new development prompted the re-issuance of the tornado warning for Tarrant County at 6:40 p.m. CST (00:40 UTC). At 7:05 p.m.
One particular storm complex over Jiangsu Province spanned and produced a tornado near Yancheng around 2:30 p.m. local time (0630 UTC). The tornado was accompanied by a hailstorm. Damage analysis found damage consistent with EF4 intensity, and the China Meteorological Administration rated the tornado as an EF4, with maximum sustained winds greater than 240 feet per second, or .
This tornado soon dissipated, and a fifth tornado (F3) touched down near Meriden, passing east of Rock Creek and east of Valley Falls before lifting northwest of Nortonville. F3 damage only occurred in the final of the path as the tornado destroyed farms and killed cattle, including 19 in a single barn. Damage near Nortonville reached $250,000.
At the time of the tornado, roughly 1,000 people lived in the hamlet of Chappaqua. Five homes and three barns were destroyed by the tornado and two people, 80-year-old Mrs. Mary Hibbs and an unknown woman were killed; six additional people were injured. Orchards in the path of the tornado were completely destroyed and greenhouses were leveled.
In 1974, he signed with the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League (NASL). He played five seasons with the Tornado before moving to the Tulsa Roughnecks in 1979. He played only three games before moving to the San Jose Earthquakes. He sat out the 1980 season with injuries, but returned to the Tornado for the 1981 season.
However, a F1 tornado swept through the historic Cathedral Area in the near west side of Joliet on April 20, 2004 (Tornado outbreak of April 20, 2004). There was another tornado (EF0) in Plainfield in April 2007, that caused damage to a nursing home and a few homes. The twister lasted for three miles and ended up in Bolingbrook.
The Grand Harbour of Malta tornado was a tornado that hit the Grand Harbour of Malta on 23 September 1551 or 1556 with very intense strength. It began as a waterspout killing at least 600 people. At least four of the Order's galleys, named Santa Fè, San Michele, San Filippo and San Claudio, capsized in the tornado.
A strong F2 tornado touched down in Liberty and skipped east-northeast. Multiple vacation resorts were heavily damaged in five or six areas, including three of them that were almost completely destroyed. The tornado passed through Bradley before dissipating over the Neversink Reservoir southwest of Neversink. The tornado tracked , was wide and caused $2.5 million in damage.
The February 1965 South Florida tornado outbreak was a tornado outbreak that affected the southern Florida peninsula on February 23, 1965. At least four confirmed tornadoes touched down between 10 a.m.–1 p.m. EST (15:00–18:00 UTC); the strongest tornado moved through the Fort Lauderdale area and produced F3 damage on the Fujita scale, injuring six people.
Fechtig is an unincorporated community in Hampton County, South Carolina, United States. The community is on South Carolina Highway 68 southeast of Hampton. On April 13, 2020, a tornado measuring EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale traveled across Hampton County from near Scotia to near Fechtig. The tornado was part of the 2020 Easter tornado outbreak.
An F1 tornado touched down at Milton causing roof and tree damage. At Redstone Lake in Haliburton County, an F0 damaged trees and cottages. Another tornado affected rural Haliburton County, with F1 tree damage at Haliburton Forest. From New Lowel to Edenvale, a tornado travelled 12.6 km, causing F1 damage to two homes and other farm buildings.
Witness Browne reported it sounded like a "million-ton [train] engine". The tornado was a couple of blocks wide when it moved up the west side of town destroying more homes, businesses and churches. The tornado path was 1/8 to 1/2 mile wide and traveled for about a mile. Reports say the tornado lasted only 5 minutes.
In the first round, Tornado was in a three-robot melee with Dantomkia and Terrorhurtz. Terrorhurtz was eliminated via pit, allowing Dantomkia and Tornado to qualify. Tornado was then beaten in the second round by Bigger Brother via pit, while Dantomkia lost to the heat winners Firestorm 4, who were beaten by reigning and eventual All Star champions Razer.
35 total buildings in downtown Nashville were deemed structurally unsound after the tornado. The tornado blew down 3 construction cranes on the construction site of the Tennessee Oilers' football stadium near the Cumberland River, before crossing the river. Many signs were downed throughout downtown as well. The tornado continued east and hit the residential section of East Nashville.
A major tornado outbreak occurred in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario on the last day of May. 44 tornadoes were confirmed, including 14 in Ontario. It is the largest and most intense tornado outbreak ever to hit this region. 90 people were killed and nine tornadoes were F4 or stronger, including the F5 Niles- Wheatland tornado.
The tornado continued north-northeast toward the communities of Abernathy and New Deal, where local authorities had begun sounding tornado sirens due to alerts passed along to them via two-way radio by the officials at the crippled Lubbock Weather Bureau office. The tornado finally dissipated at about 10:10 pm near the community of Petersburg.
The 1919 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team represented the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1919 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tornado was coached by John Heisman in his 15th year as head coach, compiling a record of 7–3 (3–1 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 257 to 33.
A series of supercells developed on July 26 across the northern Rockies into the Canadian Prairies. An EF3 tornado killed two people near Reserve, Montana as a ranch was destroyed. The same tornado also injured an elderly woman. Separately, another tornado hit the northern sections of Nashville, Tennessee damaging over a dozen homes and other structures.
At least 200 houses were also damaged by that EF3 tornado. Damage was also reported near Charlotte. An EF2 tornado hit Linwood in Davidson County. The same system produced a weak EF0 tornado on the morning of March 29 in South Florida and at least one, possibly two, tornadoes at Freeport on Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas.
A cold front that hit the state of São Paulo since Tuesday has caused a tornado in the city. The tornado was classified as F1, but shortly afterwards it was reclassified as F3 after the damage counts. The tornado occurred around a Tuesday afternoon leaving a huge destruction trail in the city. The winds surpassed 125 mph.
A massive outbreak sequence produced 145 tornadoes, including four violent tornadoes. On May 24, a well-documented F4 tornado killed two and injured four in Union City, Oklahoma. On May 26, another violent F4 tornado killed five and injured 25 in Martin, Oklahoma. That same day, another long-tracked F4 tornado in Northeastern Arkansas killed three and injured 289.
A small but damaging outbreak of eight tornadoes struck the Midwest and Southeast. The worst event occurred on May 14, when a violent F4 tornado caused major damage in Indianapolis. The tornado was first seen by people near the 9700 block of East Washington Street. The tornado blew the second-floor wall off of an apartment building.
Tornado damage in Siren, Wisconsin Two people were killed, with 16 injured, by an F3 tornado in Wisconsin. It first caused severe damage as a mile-wide tornado in the town of Siren, where it destroyed 200 homes. The three deaths occurred in Dewey Township, where many homes destroyed. About of trees were downed along its 30-mile path.
Destroyed mobile home in Arkansas from a tornado that occurred on February 24. A moderate tornado outbreak affected several southern US states. A line of tornado-producing supercells formed out in front of a squall line which produced damaging winds. Over 10 hours, multiple tornadoes touched down and caused $35 million in damage, primarily in Arkansas and Mississippi.
On April 20, one of the injured people died at Pitt Memorial Hospital, increasing the death toll from the tornado to 12. Bertie County was also struck by the 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak, and on April 19, 1943, an F3 tornado destroyed every building in the town of Roxobel, in the western part of the county.
Tornado damage to human-made structures is a result of the high wind velocity and windblown debris. Tornadic winds have been measured in excess of 300 mph (480 km/h). Tornadoes are a serious hazard to life and limb. As such, people in tornado-prone areas often adopt plans of action in case a tornado approaches.
Many cable television systems and some commercial television stations will, during EAS activation, rebroadcast the audio of a warning message first heard on their local NWR station, to alert viewers of a severe weather event or civil emergency, usually with the issuance of a tornado warning or tornado emergency, especially in tornado-prone areas of the country.
The report explains what happened, how many were killed, how citizens feel and even what was stolen and who came out to help. In addition to this report, there were many reports to explain how the tornado was formed for this tornado. The reports also hold onto interviews from people who viewed the tornado first hand.
It's path was just a few miles east of the areas affected by the F5 tornado for most of its path, and several counties were affected by both tornadoes. With 58 fatalities, the tornado is the deadliest in Mississippi since 1950; however, the deadliest Mississippi tornado on record in the 20th century killed 216 people in 1936.
Tornado damage near a forested area The tornado took a path through Rockland, Westchester and Fairfield counties, downing or uprooting thousands of trees and damaging several structures, including significant structural damage to the California Closets warehouse. Six minor injuries were also reported. In all, the tornado inflicted $12.1 million in damage. Minor damage was reported in Rockland County.
Early the next morning, a short-lived, but strong F2 tornado ripped through Angie, Louisiana, injuring nine. The final strong tornado of the outbreak occurred during the early morning hours of February 22, when a very destructive F2 tornado plowed through Alberta Heights and Woodmont, Alabama on the east side of Tuscaloosa. Overall, the tornadoes injured 23.
Another destructive outbreak of 14 tornadoes hit the Southeast. On February 24, a strong F2 tornado moved through Hurtsboro, Hatchechubbee, Seale and Flournoys, Alabama, obliterating homes, blowing down trees, and injuring four. A damaging F1 tornado moved through Jackson, South Carolina, injuring five. Another F1 tornado caused heavy damage in New Ellenton, South Carolina, two people were injured.
While officially rated F1, Grazulis rated this tornado F3 and noted near-F4 damage. Another F3 tornado destroyed trailers, cottages, and small homes in and near Henderson, Arkansas, killing 3 people . Tornadic activity continued past midnight into May 16. An F3 tornado traveled on a long, skipping path from near Wabash, Indiana to New Haven, killing 1 person.
A low pressure system produced a small tornado outbreak in the Midwest with two strong tornadoes in Nebraska. The first destroyed a house near Waco. A second tornado destroyed 2 farms and a power substation near Stromsburg. While both tornadoes were officially rated F2, Grazulis rated them F3, noting near-F4 damage from the Stromsburg tornado.
A low pressure system brought tornadoes to the central and southern United States. An isolated F2 tornado destroyed farm buildings and a water tower in and near Veteran, Wyoming. Another F2 tornado blew down and unroofed homes in Crossett, Arkansas. An F2 tornado unroofed homes and a theater and destroyed warehouses in Paragould, Arkansas, injuring two people.
The narrow F5 tornado tore through Palluel, lifting cars, and throwing houses, killing 6 people and injuring 30. The tornado then abruptly dissipated as it reached the Canal du Nord. At around 20:00 UTC, a large, violent, 1.5 mile-wide F4 wedge tornado touched down, killing 2 people and injuring 50 on a 23 km long path.
Five damaging tornadoes touched down across five states over a two day span in October. On October 10, an F1 tornado struck Eash Hazel Crest, Illinois in the southern suburbs of Chicago. Early on October 11, an F3 tornado struck Catherine, Kansas. That afternoon, another F3 tornado hit Mt. Pleasant and the northwest side of Franklin, Indiana, killing two.
Tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis indicated that there the tornado, which injured three people, may have reached F5 intensity as well. An F2 tornado then struck Lake Lotawana near Lee's Summit and Lone Jack, Missouri southeast of Kansas City, Missouri, injuring another person. Overall, although there were no fatalities, eight people were injured by the tornadoes.
A small, but deadly outbreak of seven tornadoes struck Oklahoma and Texas. On May 18, a violent F4 tornado hit areas north of Olney, Texas. Many homes in town were destroyed, some of which were swept away with very little debris left. Tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis noted that the tornado may have reached F5 intensity as well.
One of the F3 tornadoes struck the northern suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri and caused almost $3 million in damage. The first killer tornado of 1950 was a lone F3 tornado on January 13 which struck Polk County, Arkansas killing one and injuring another. A rare F2 tornado also touched down in Northeastern Illinois on January 26\.
An outbreak of 17 tornadoes impacted the Great Lakes, Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, and the Southeast. On March 6, a large 500 yard wide F3 tornado moved through rural Iroquois County, Illinois, injuring six. An F2 tornado then injured two people near Dunnington and Dunn, Indiana. Later, another F2 tornado injured one in rural Cass County, Indiana.
Two weak, but damaging and even deadly tornadoes struck Georgia. The first tornado moved directly through Marietta at F1 strength, although there were no casualties. Surprisingly, the F0 tornado then touched down about 2.5 hours later and actually killed three people southwest of Thomson. As of 2020, this is the deadliest F0/EF0 tornado in US history.
The 100 deaths accounted for about 77.5% of the fatalities in 1955. The next day, featured weaker but more numerous tornado activity (30 tornadoes compared to 16 the day before), with the two worst tornadoes occurring in Arkansas. A large, 1000 yard F3 tornado hit Jessieville, and Paron, injuring three. Later, an F2 tornado hit Weldon, injuring seven.
An outbreak of four tornadoes struck Alabama and Georgia. A 1480 yard wide F3 tornado caused major damage in Fort Mitchell, Alabama and Fort Benning, killing two and injuring 20. Another long-tracked F3 tornado struck Roberta, Lizelle, and Macon, Georgia, killing five and injuring 75. An F1 satellite tornado was also observed northeast of Butler with no casualties.
This was followed by an even stronger F3 tornado that tore a path of destruction 40.2 miles long, hitting the towns of Magee and Montrose, killing one and injuring 75. Later, another F3 tornado hit Eastview, Tennessee, injuring 11. April 5 saw a final day of weaker, but still deadly, tornado activity mainly during the early morning hours.
A widespread outbreak of 15 tornadoes occurred on April 25. In Nebraska, a long- tracked F4 tornado struck Milford, Northwestern Lincoln, Ashland, and Southwestern Omaha, killing one and injuring eight on its 89.8 mile path. Later, another long-tracked F3 tornado moved through rural Clay and Fillmore Counties. In Arkansas, another F3 tornado hit the south side of Jonesboro.
The tornado dissipated as it crossed over Brickell Ridge east-southeast of Walnut Grove. The tornado traveled and was Three of the four fatalities were in one family and eight other people were injured, with losses totaling $250,000. According to Grazulis, the fourth death may have been unrelated to the tornado when a plane crashed because of the storm.
"Tornado on Canadian fighter shortlist." Flight International, 1978. p. 1153. Japan considered the Tornado in the 1980s, along with the F-16 and F/A-18, before selecting the Mitsubishi F-2.Lorell 1996, pp. 108, 121. In the 1990s, both Taiwan and South Korea expressed interest in acquiring a small number of Tornado ECR aircraft.Martin 1996, p. 253.
At the time, Doppler weather radar indicated weak rotation within the storm, a sign of a possible tornado and around 4:17 p.m., a tornado touched down in the Munger Hill section of Westfield, Massachusetts. The previous severe thunderstorm warning was then superseded by a tornado warning at 4:30 p.m. following stronger rotation apparent on radar.
On April 29, 2017, a very large and destructive EF4 tornado struck the city of Eustace causing major damage. The tornado then tore through West Canton, where more possible EF3/EF4 damage occurred. No deaths were reported in this event, but Canton was devastated only minutes later by another tornado (rated EF3) which killed four people.
Two people were killed and 14 others were injured. The tornado was rated EF3, making it the strongest tornado spawned by a tropical cyclone since 2005. After the storm, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, toured the mobile home park hit by the tornado in Windsor, saying it was "devastating" to see what happened to the area.

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