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This page documents notable tornadoes and tornado outbreaks worldwide in 2021. Strong and destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the United States , Argentina , Brazil , Bangladesh , and Eastern India , but can occur almost anywhere under the right conditions.
The death toll from the outbreak was 89 (with six additional non-tornadic fatalities), surpassing the Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6, 1953, which caused 49 fatalities, as the deadliest December tornado event ever recorded in the United States. In Kentucky alone, 74 people were killed by three separate tornadoes.
During the late evening of Friday, December 10, 2021, a violent, long-tracked, EF4-intensity tornado, sometimes referred to as the Western Kentucky tornado, [3] Mayfield tornado, [4] or The Beast, [5] moved across Western Kentucky, United States, producing severe-to-catastrophic damage in numerous towns, including Mayfield, Princeton, Dawson Springs, and Bremen. [2]
Part of the 2021–22 North American winter and Tornadoes of 2021. 1 Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale ... resulting in the deaths of 13 hogs. The roofs ...
A deadly tornado outbreak caused at least 90 deaths across the country’s heartland on Dec. 10 – 11, 2021. An EF-4 tore through the heart of Mayfield, Kentucky, damaging facilities owned by ...
The tornado was the second strongest and third deadliest of the tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021. The tornado reached peak intensity twice, the first time east of Braggadocio and the second time in Tiptonville, leading the National Weather Service to assign a rating of low-end EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with maximum wind speeds ...
United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] Year Number of tornadoes FU/EFU F0/EF0 F1/EF1 F2/EF2 ... 2021: 1,314 203 556 427 104 21 3 0 2022: 1,143 151 401 448 119 20 4 0 ...
The Flint-Beecher F5 tornado produced the last 100+ death toll for a single tornado in US history until the 2011 Joplin tornado. An F4 tornado that struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killed 94 people and may have reached F5 status as well. (26 significant, 6 violent, 7 killer) [36] [37] Tornado outbreak of June 27, 1953: June 27, 1953: North ...