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This long-tracked tornado – which may have been a tornado family due its skipping damage path – leveled barns and produced $200,000 in rural farm damage (Grazulis 1991). F0 Velma area Stephens: OK: 0830 0.1 miles (160 m) 33 yd (30 m) F1 N of Chickasha: Grady: OK: 0830 0.1 miles (160 m) 33 yd (30 m) F1 South Oklahoma City: Oklahoma: OK: 0900
An F3 tornado hit downtown Oklahoma City five days earlier, inflicting $2.5 million (1960 USD) [7] in damages to the city and injuring 57 people. [6] The 1970s, like the 1950s, was a particularly deadly decade for tornadoes in Oklahoma, with 433 tornadoes killing a combined total of 110 people. [6]
Oklahoma tornado tracks during the 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak. Several unusual events occurred during the 1955 tornado season. May 25 saw two F5 tornadoes on the ground at the same time in the same general area of Northern Oklahoma and Southern Kansas, both of which caused catastrophic damage and hundreds of casualties.
May 20, 2024 at 8:55 AM. 1 / 5. EF5 tornado ‘drought' reaches 11 years, longest in history. ... Tornado-damaged areas of Moore, Oklahoma, are seen in aerial photos during a mission flown by the ...
High risk convective outlook issued by the Storm Prediction center at 13:00 UTC on May 6. Starting April 30, the Storm Prediction Center noted that certain models, including the ECMWF, forecasted a multi-day period of high instability and supportive wind shear across the Southern and Central Plains, [10] and by May 1, a 15% risk was added across Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas. [11]
Most tornadoes in Oklahoma in a day. Thoren said the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak is one of the state's highest tornadoes in one day. On May 3, 1999, there were 58 confirmed tornadoes in the NWS ...
Tornado outbreak of April 28–29, 1950; Tornado outbreak of May 21–24, 1952; Tornado outbreak of March 12–15, 1953; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 28 – May 2, 1953; Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6, 1953; 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak; List of tornadoes in the outbreak sequence of April 2–5, 1957
Oklahoma City tests its tornado sirens every Saturday at 12 p.m., unless there's already inclement weather to be expected. The noise can be quite jarring, especially if there's clear skies and sun.