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A large F4 tornado killed two people in Cimarron City and Mulhall on the same day; it was the largest tornado ever measured quantitatively. [10] The 2000s were less significant, with 483 tornadoes killing a total of 32 people. [6] A large F4 tornado moved through southwestern Oklahoma City in May 2003, injuring 134 people.
Location County / Parish State Time Path length Max. width F4 Valley Brooke to Dell City to Choctaw: Oklahoma: OK: 21:25–? 20 mi (32 km) 400 yd (370 m) 8 deaths — Between the three towns, 160 homes were destroyed. In total, the tornado killed eight people, injured 200 others, and caused $1 million (1945 USD) in damage.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
April 25, 1893: Two tornadoes caused damage in Norman and Moore, with the second tornado killing 31 people and injuring “many” others.The National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma identified this as a “significant” tornado and one of the “five strong/violent” that day in Oklahoma, suggesting the 1.25 miles (2.01 km) wide tornado was at least equivalent to F2 intensity and possibly ...
da. ^ World War II Note: as of March 31, 1946, there were an estimated 286,959 dead of whom 246,492 were identified; of 40,467 who were unidentified 18,641 were located {10,986 reposed in military cemeteries and 7,655 in isolated graves} and 21,826 were reported not located. As of April 6, 1946, there were 539 American Military Cemeteries which ...
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 had an approximate recorded wind speed of 301 mph (484 km/h) as sampled by mobile Doppler radar, [27] the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth. It left a swath of destruction over 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at times, and 38 miles (60 km) long. It killed a total of 36 people in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
5 deaths – Major, long-tracked tornado killed five people, injured 23 others, and caused $77,000 in losses, including $65,000 in Texas and $12,000 in Oklahoma. Four of the five deaths were in a single family. Tornado struck 43 farms and destroyed or damaged 30 homes, some of which were swept away. [12] F2 Warren: Jackson: OK: 18:15–? Un ...