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The maximum path width of the storm was three-quarters of a mile, and the tornado lasted for approximately 70 minutes. The tornado was given an EF4 rating, with estimated peak wind speeds of 170 mph.
This tornado was accompanied by an intense rear-flank downdraft surge, with the total damage path width being recorded at 2.7 mi (4.3 km). A Ka-POL radar from Texas Tech University had been recording the tornado throughout its life cycle, and recorded a wind gust of 87.9 m/s (197 mph; 316 km/h) near the surface, while confirming the tornado's ...
One of these tracked 122 miles across Arkansas, the longest tornado path of record in that state. A Feb. 21-22, 1971 outbreak claimed 121 lives from Texas to North Carolina, the deadliest February ...
This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since a 1955 tornado in Udall, Kansas killed 80 people – the 2011 Joplin tornado a month later killed 158. The path of the tornado was 132 miles (212 km) and extended to parts of Northern Alabama and ...
NWS rates the force of a tornado by wind speed and the damage it leaves behind on a scale named for meteorologist Ted Fujita and refined in 2007 as the "Enhanced Fujita" — EF — in categories ...
However, tornadoes are capable of both much shorter and much longer damage paths: one tornado was reported to have a damage path only 7 feet (2.1 m) long, while the record-holding tornado for path length—the Tri-State Tornado, which affected parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925—was on the ground continuously for 219 ...
A tornado cut a path through Columbia on Wednesday, causing untold damage and the death of at least one person in Middle Tennessee.. As people sifted through the destruction and tried to make ...
The tornado then moved past Drummonds and began to weaken further as a new circulation, which would produce the Covington EF3 tornado, strengthened to its south. Along the final portion of the path, the tornado inflicted EF0 to EF1 damage to many trees, several power poles, and a few homes and outbuildings.