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Several destructive tornadoes have hit the state of Oklahoma since 1882, the year with the first recorded tornado within state boundaries. Oklahoma, located in Tornado Alley, experiences around 68 tornadoes annually, with each EF3+ tornado killing an average of 2.9 people. 497 tornadoes have been classified as "intense" in Oklahoma, being rated F3+ on the Fujita Scale [note 1] or EF3+ on the ...
Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas , South Dakota , Iowa and Nebraska .
In Tulsa County, about 100 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, lightning strikes set a house aflame. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an emergency declaration for six counties impacted by the storms.
The first tornado, the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was rated F5 as it caused significant damage across multiple counties in Oklahoma with winds peaking at 134.5 ± 10 m/s (301 ± 22 mph), the fastest ever recorded on Earth. In Cleveland County, the tornado was F5 intensity as it caused catastrophic damage to Moore. The tornado killed 36 ...
An intense trough with dry line activity moved across the southern Plains, especially Oklahoma and southern Kansas, on May 10.For the fourth time in less than three weeks, a high risk of severe weather was issued by the Storm Prediction Center; the high risk covered portions of Oklahoma and Kansas from the interchange of I-35, I-40 and I-44 in the Oklahoma City area, northeastward into ...
The Oklahoma City Office of Emergency Management canceled its weekly noon tornado siren on Saturday in anticipation of severe weather, according to a social media post from the city's police ...
Oklahoma's Department of Transportation and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reopened Interstate 35 at mile marker 15 just before 9 a.m. this morning, the agencies announced. The highway was closed ...
Upon statehood, all Oklahoma counties allowed civil townships within their counties. A few years after statehood, a constitutional amendment allowed them to be abolished on a county-by-county basis, and by the mid-1930s, all Oklahoma counties had voted to do so. [3] According to the Oklahoma Constitution, a county can be disorganized if the sum ...