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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.
Ted Fujita, creator of the original Fujita Scale (used in the United States from 1971 to 2007) Thomas P. Grazulis, meteorologist and author of "Significant Tornadoes" List of natural disasters by death toll; List of tornado-related deaths at schools; List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks. List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks ...
This article's lead section may be too long. Please read the length guidelines and help move details into the article's body. (August 2024) Tornadoes in the United States 1950-2019 A tornado strikes near Anadarko, Oklahoma. This was part of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak on May 3, 1999. Tornadoes are more common in the United States than in any other country or state. The United States ...
Here are the top 10 deadliest tornadoes to strike in the United States, according to the Storm Prediction Center. ... with flying debris causing multiple deaths. 116 people died when an F5 tornado ...
Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] Year Number of tornadoes FU/EFU F0/EF0 F1/EF1 F2/EF2 F3/EF3
At least one other storm-related death occurred in Adams County, Iowa, about 90 miles southwest of Des Moines. In addition to a possible tornado tearing into the town of Red Oak, Iowa, another ...
The United States is uniquely suited to tornadoes and experiences more than any other country - an average of 800 each year. ... The Thursday afternoon storm would be blamed for three deaths and ...
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, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.