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The tornado was also the 118th tornado to strike the Oklahoma City area since 1890. Total damage was estimated at $1 billion (1999 USD). [25] June 12, 1942 F4 35 100 Oklahoma City metropolitan area: This was the deadliest tornado to strike the Oklahoma City area until the May 3, 1999 F5 tornado.
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 ...
The deadliest tornado outbreak sequence in American history. Killer tornadoes touched down from Texas to Pennsylvania. Produced at least three F5 tornadoes and several F4s, including an F4 that killed at least 255 people and injured 1,236 in the St. Louis area. In Sherman Texas on May 15, one of the most intense tornadoes of the 19th century ...
Tornado outbreak of April 29 – May 1, 1909, (Grazulis, p. 721) Minden (Gillark), Louisiana: 1933 May 1: 28 400 F4 The following day, one newspaper suggested as many as 55 deaths (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; May 2, 1933; p. 1) (Grazulis, p. 850) Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 1912 June 30: 28 300 F4 This is the deadliest tornado in Canada's history.
A massive tornado outbreak first struck the Southern Plains on May 2–4. The worst tornado was an extremely violent F5 tornado that tore through the Southern Oklahoma City metro area, killing 36. It produced a wind gust of 301 mph, the highest winds ever recorded on Earth. [5]
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
At least four people are dead, including an infant, after a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma overnight, as severe storms threaten more twisters, heavy rain and large hail from Missouri to Texas Sunday.
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.