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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, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
List of United States tornado outbreaks – 1910–1919 Outbreak Dates Region Tornadoes Casualties Notes Tornado outbreak of November 11, 1911: November 11, 1911: Midwestern United States: ≥9: 13 fatalities, 117 injuries: Outbreak was produced by a large and dynamic storm system. F4 struck Janesville, Wisconsin, and killed nine people.
This event was the costliest tornado outbreak in United States history, with total damage reaching $10.2 billion (equivalent to $14 billion in 2023). [18] In 2023, tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis created the outbreak intensity score (OIS) as a way to rank various tornado outbreaks.
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 ...
List of tornadoes in the 1985 United States-Canada tornado outbreak, (Grazulis, p. 1,268) Wilburton—Keota—Sallisaw, Oklahoma: 1960 May 5: 16 106 F4 May 1960 tornado outbreak sequence: Mount Carmel, Illinois: 1877 June 4: 16 100 F4 Some historical accounts suggest as many as 30 fatalities but this is unconfirmed. (Grazulis, p. 588)
It is one of the costliest tornadoes on record, and was one of the 367 tornadoes in the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. The tornado reached a maximum path width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km) during its track through Tuscaloosa, and again when it crossed I-65 north of Birmingham, attaining estimated wind ...
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... of Oklahoma in the spring of 1999 when the state was impacted by one of the most violent tornadoes in recorded history. On May 3, 1999, an F5 tornado struck ...