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An NWS preliminary comparison of the tracks of the 2013 Moore tornado (red), the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado (green), and the 2003 Moore–Choctaw tornado (blue). On May 20, 2013, a prominent central upper trough moved eastward toward the Central United States, with a lead upper low pivoting over the Dakotas and Upper Midwest region.
May 20, 2013: Moore, Oklahoma — — 140 mph (230 km/h) A PX-1000 transportable radar unit operated by University of Oklahoma's Advanced Radar Research Center was used to observe the path of the tornado through Moore, with researchers detailing a "loop" in the path near the Moore Medical Center as a "failed occlusion". [37] EF3 May 28, 2013 ...
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 ...
Tornado-damaged areas of Moore, Okla. are seen in aerial photos during a mission flown by the Civil Air Patrol Sunday, May 26, 2013. Cleanup continues after a huge tornado roared through the ...
Moore had suffered catastrophic tornado strikes before the 2013 storm, but the massive 2013 twister was the final straw that led to a storm shelter program in the city. In May 1999, an F5 tornado ...
1999 tornado still ranks as one of Oklahoma's deadliest. According to the National Weather Service, ... Tragedy struck in the form of tornadoes in Moore again in May 2003 and then May 2013, when ...
DOW data revealed some of the most intense tornadic winds ever recorded (the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado, 3 May 1999, the El Reno tornado, 31 May 2013, and the Greenfield, Iowa Tornado, 21 May 2024), [16] [17] and the largest tornadic circulation ever documented (the Cimarron City–Mulhall–Perry Tornado, which also occurred on 3 May, 1999 ...
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 ...