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Tornado damage in Lorain, Ohio The Xenia, Ohio tornado from the 1974 Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated by Ted Fujita himself as an F6 , but it was retroactively downgraded to F5 [ 1 ] Tornadoes in the state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first recorded event ...
Tornado outbreak of November 15–16, 1955; St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 23–30, 1961; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 3–9, 1961; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 14–31, 1962; 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; List of tornadoes in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
The Fujita scale attempts to estimate the intensity of a tornado by classifying the damage caused to natural features and man-made structures in the tornado's path. A famous photo of an F4 tornado in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. Tornadoes are among the most violent known meteorological phenomena. Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes ...
The Ohio tornado on April 3, 1974, killed 34 people in Xenia, making it the deadliest single tornado of that day's Super Outbreak. Ohio has a long history of deadly, destructive tornadoes .
Between April 23–30, 1961, a tornado outbreak sequence [nb 1] struck the Midwest, Ohio, and Mississippi Valleys, and the Eastern United States. Large hailstorms accompanied the tornadoes as well and numerous other weather events also occurred. Three people were killed, 38 others were injured and losses totaled $26.810 million (1961 USD). [4]
The final three tornadoes of 1961 struck the Southeast. [269] On November 17, an F1 tornado hit Tuckers Crossing, Mississippi. [270] Next, an F2 tornado injured one southeast of Marion, Alabama. [271] The next morning, the final F2 tornado damaged Valdosta, Georgia. [272] In the end, only one person was injured by the tornadoes. [269]
From 2010 through May of this year, an average of almost 32 tornadoes a year touched down in Ohio. From 1960 through 2009, the average was 16.
The tornado outbreak sequence of May 2019 was a prolonged series of destructive tornadoes and tornado outbreaks affecting the United States over the course of nearly two weeks, producing a total of 400 tornadoes, including 53 significant events (EF2+). Eighteen of these were EF3 tornadoes, spanning over multiple states, including Nebraska ...