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While direct measurement of the most violent tornado wind speeds is nearly impossible, since conventional anemometers would be destroyed by the intense winds and flying debris, some tornadoes have been scanned by mobile Doppler radar units, which can provide a good estimate of the tornado's winds. The highest wind speed ever measured in a ...
List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak of May 6–10, 2024; 2024 Houston derecho; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–27, 2024. List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–27, 2024. 2024 Greenfield tornado; List of United States tornadoes from June to July 2024. Hurricane Beryl tornado outbreak
The tornado continued to cause significant tree damage until it dissipated north-northwest of Summit at 4:04 a.m. CDT (09:04 UTC). [82] The tornado was on the ground for approximately 37 minutes, traveling a total path length of 21.10 mi (33.96 km), and reaching a peak width of 1,500 yd (1,400 m).
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. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the ...
The tornado was the fourth-deadliest of the 1990s in the United States, only being surpassed by the 1990 Plainfield tornado that killed 29, the 1998 Birmingham tornado that killed 32, and the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado that killed 36. It was the only F5 tornado of 1997, and the next F5-rated tornado would occur on April 8 of the ...
The tornado was rated as a high-end EF3 with wind speeds estimated at 155 mph (249 km/h), reaching a peak width of 1,300 yards (1,200 m) along a 34.64-mile (55.75 km) path, remaining on the ground for 38 minutes. [11] As this tornado was ongoing, a separate circulation spawned the violent Greenfield tornado. [12]
A tornado can be reported more than once, such as when a storm crosses a county line and reports are made from two counties. The severity of tornadoes is measured by the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which measures tornado intensity on a scale of EF0 to EF5 based on wind speed and intensity of destruction. The ratings are made after the tornado has ...
Knowing the wind sampling average is important, as the value of a one-minute sustained wind is typically 14% greater than a ten-minute sustained wind. [16] A short burst of high speed wind is termed a wind gust ; one technical definition of a wind gust is: the maxima that exceed the lowest wind speed measured during a ten-minute time interval ...