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Oklahoma experienced its largest tornado outbreak on record, with 70 confirmed. The most notable of these was the F5 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado which devastated Oklahoma City and suburban communities. The tornado killed 36 people and injured 583 others; losses amounted to $1 billion, making it the first billion-dollar tornado in history. [6]
A map of the meteorological setup of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.The map displays surface and upper level atmospheric features associated with the outbreak. The Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was part of a much larger outbreak which produced 71 tornadoes across five states throughout the Central Plains on May 3 alone, along with an additional 25 that touched down a day later in some of ...
This list just indicates that the tornado does have a confirmed, free-to-use photograph, which automatically excludes these tornadoes from having any non-free-file uploaded or used about them. 1957 Fargo tornado (F5) 1968 Tracy tornado (F5) 1974 Xenia tornado (F5) 1996 Oakfield tornado (F5) 2007 Elie tornado (F5) 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham ...
On May 3, 1999, an F5 tornado struck Bridge Creek and Moore, Oklahoma, with winds of over 300 mph - the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth. Nearly 600 people were injured, and 36 were ...
Most tornadoes are very weak and only last a few minutes, Thoren said. F4 and F5 tornadoes like those that tore through Oklahoma on May 31, 2013, are the rarities.
This May 21, 2013, file photo shows the remains of houses in Moore, Oklahoma, following a tornado on May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
The 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that struck the southern and central U.S Great Plains States on May 25–26, 1955. It produced at least 48 tornadoes across seven states including two F5 tornadoes in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and Udall, Kansas that caused most of the casualties.
The tornado, rated a high-end F4 on the Fujita scale, [1] [2] caused extreme damage along its relatively short path. Meteorologist Bill Hecke of KNCT-FM stated the tornado's intensity rivaled the Bridge Creek–Moore F5 tornado, which had struck Oklahoma a week prior, and the 1997 Jarrell F5 tornado.