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Officially, the widest tornado on record is the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013, with a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km) at its peak.
This tornado was among the strongest ever recorded and rated as F5/T11, indicating potential winds over 300 mph (480 km/h). The rating was assigned based on several surveys by German scientist Gottlob Burchard Genzmer. 5-to-10-centimetre-diameter (2.0 to 3.9 in) hail occurred during this tornado as well. [24] Apr 23: 1800: Germany Saxony ...
Murphysboro, Illinois, saw 234 people lose their lives, the largest number of fatalities related to a single tornado on record for any U.S. community.
The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado [a] that occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma during the early evening of Friday, May 31, 2013.
The 2013 El Reno Tornado is widely considered to be the largest tornado ever recorded, based on width. However, according to some sources the Mulhall Tornado was larger. At its peak, the massive El Reno Tornado reached a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) and speeds of up to 301 mph (484 km/h).
The map above shows the strongest tornado ever recorded in every US county. The data comes from Tornado Archive. How is Tornado Strength Measured in the United States? In the United States, tornado strength is measured using the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale.
The largest one ever recorded happened right before an EF 4 leveled the small town of Manchester on June 4, 2003. A nearby probe measured a pressure deficit of 100 millibars.
The widest tornado on record is the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013. At its peak, it had a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km). The highest forward speed of a tornado ever recorded was 73 miles per hour (117 km/h) by the Tri-State Tornado. The longest distance a person carried by a tornado and lived, belongs to Matt Suter of Fordland, Missouri.
By the evening, a deadly tornado of unprecedented ferocity had wreaked havoc, claiming a total of 36 lives. For Oklahoma City and its surrounding suburbs, May 3, 1999 began like any other spring...
Central Oklahoma holds the record for both the largest and the strongest tornadoes ever recorded. A tornado that touched down in El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, measured 2.6 miles wide at...