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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 ...
The EF5 tornado that struck Moore in 1999 is pictured. 1999 tornado still ranks as one of Oklahoma's deadliest. ... "there are still people trying to figure out where they are going to live, where ...
This was the second of three major tornado outbreaks in January 1999. First set of tornado warnings were issued in eastern Arkansas where 2 tornadoes were confirmed, the first being near Wynne, Arkansas as an F1, and the second one spawned in Jonesboro, Arkansas, as a short lived F0, Also, 2 strong to violent tornadoes hit the Jackson ...
For these reasons, the outbreak is known in Oklahoma as the May 3rd outbreak or the Oklahoma tornado outbreak of 1999. On May 2, a strong area of low pressure moved out of the Rocky Mountains and into the High Plains , producing scattered severe weather and ten tornadoes in Nebraska .
Moore had suffered catastrophic tornado strikes before the 2013 storm, but the massive 2013 twister was the final straw that led to a storm shelter program in the city. In May 1999, an F5 tornado ...
On May 3, 1999, an F5 tornado struck Bridge Creek and Moore, Oklahoma, with winds of over 300 mph - the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth. Nearly 600 people were injured, and 36 were ...
The deadliest tornado of the decade would again hit Moore on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people and receiving a rating of EF5, making it the most recent tornado worldwide to top the Enhanced Fujita Scale as of January 2025. The tornado was the costliest in Oklahoma history and the third costliest in US history, leaving an estimated $2 billion ...
The most notable of these was the F5 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado which devastated Oklahoma City and suburban communities. The tornado killed 36 people and injured 583 others; losses amounted to $1 billion, making it the first billion-dollar tornado in history.