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The drought began on May 20, 2013, following the dissipation of the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma EF5 tornado. [11] [12] Several tornadoes since the Moore EF5 have reached the 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) wind speeds needed for a tornado to be classified as an EF5, including the 2013 El Reno EF3 tornado and 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale EF4 tornado, with wind speeds measured in excess of 295 miles per hour ...
A map of the meteorological setup of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.The map displays surface and upper level atmospheric features associated with the outbreak. The Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was part of a much larger outbreak which produced 71 tornadoes across five states throughout the Central Plains on May 3 alone, along with an additional 25 that touched down a day later in some of ...
In total, the tornado traveled more than 14 miles and was more than 300 yards across at its widest point. EF1 tornado near West Jefferson in Madison County The path of the EF1 tornado that touched ...
EF5-rated damage in Hackleburg, Alabama where a large tornado killed seventeen residents. The 2011 Super Outbreak, which took place across the Southern United States from April 25–28, 2011, was the largest and third-deadliest tornado outbreak in United States history, [1] with 359 tornadoes resulting in the deaths of at least 324 people, [2] [3] the majority of whom lived in the state of ...
With up to 140-mph winds, and spanning 200 to 300 yards (two to three times the length of a football field) in width at times, the tornado likely traveled more than 30 miles in Palm Beach County ...
As the Dominator 3 approached the tornado, video captured by Timmer showed the roaring size of the tornado along the Nebraska Sandhills. Storm Chaser Jordan Hall was in the vehicle with Timmer as ...
While one crew went to deploy a pod of observational instruments in the direct path of the tornado for data collection, another, operating with a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) portable radar unit arrived in Greenfield at 3:30 p.m. and stationed themselves roughly 300 yd (270 m) away from the ultimate path of the tornado around 1 mile east of the ...
[1] [2] One type of mesoscale discussion is a meso-gamma mesoscale discussion, which are for tornadoes believed to be at least EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, or winds at least 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).