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In the Americas, there are 15 tornadoes on record that caused at least 100 fatalities, the most recent being the Joplin EF5 tornado which killed 158 people in May 2011. There are at least 450 tornadoes on record that caused greater than ten fatalities; the most recent of these was the Rolling Fork, Mississippi EF4 tornado which killed 17 people ...
1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak; November 1989 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of June 2, 1998; Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho; Tornado outbreak of January 17–18, 1999; Tornado outbreak of April 27–28, 2002; 2002 Veterans Day weekend tornado outbreak; List of tornadoes in the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence
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 ...
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, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
10 1 1986: 765 0 354 271 116 21 3 0 1987: 656 0 340 239 62 12 3 0 1988: 702 0 283 311 81 24 3 0 1989: 856 0 369 364 102 10 11 0 1990: 1,133 0 537 385 155 41 12 3 1991: 1,132 0 688 295 103 39 6 1 1992: 1,313 0 699 427 129 44 13 1 1993: 1,173 0 733 324 80 30 6 0 1994: 1,082 0 694 272 81 30 5 0 1995: 1,185 0 822 234 98 20 11 0 1996: 1,173 0 743 ...
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 ...
This tornado season got off to an accelerated start, with the cumulative number of storms thus far eclipsing storm counts in recent years — and the 15-year average.