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The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
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 ...
2 0 2007: 1,097 0 674 300 91 26 5 1 2008: 1,693 0 985 498 151 49 9 1 2009: 1,147 0 695 348 82 20 2 0 2010: 1,282 0 768 342 127 32 13 0 2011: 1,713 0 802 629 198 61 17 6 2012: 948 0 583 241 94 26 4 0 2013: 916 0 499 309 80 19 8 1 2014: 929 0 510 321 71 20 7 0 2015: 1,178 0 691 401 65 18 3 0 2016: 974 30 530 311 75 26 2 0 2017: 1,418 67 615 594 ...
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
Eleven years later, it remains the most recent tornado to be rated EF5, the strongest possible rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The 11-year gap is the longest since official U.S. records began ...
The year 2024 will go down in history as the second-worst tornado season on record, beating 2011, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center's said Friday. After a late December tornado outbreak with at least ...
Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the number of tornadoes officially counted is likely underestimated.
The largest outbreak of the month occurred on Jan. 12 when 70 tornadoes across seven states were reported. This date included two EF3 tornadoes that resulted in at least 9 deaths and 34 injuries ...