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Throughout the evening hours of December 10, 2021, a large and destructive tornado struck areas in and around the cities and communities of Monette (AR), Leachville (AR), Braggadocio (MO), Hayti (MO), Tiptonville (TN) and Samburg (TN), killing eight people and injuring 16 others. The tornado was the second strongest and third deadliest of the ...
Part of the tornado outbreaks of 2021and2021–22 North American winter. A deadly late-season tornado outbreak, the deadliest on record in December[5], produced catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities across portions of the Southern United Statesand Ohio Valleyfrom the evening of December 10 to the early morning of December 11, 2021.
1Most severe tornado damage; see Enhanced Fujita scale. On April 22, 2011, a violent EF4 tornado, with winds of 170 mph (270 km/h), struck the St. Louis metropolitan area. [2] The tornado, which was the strongest to hit St. Louis County or City since January 1967, moved through many suburbs and neighborhoods, damaging and destroying many homes ...
26 injuries. Tornadoes affected six different states, with Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma receiving most of the tornadoes. A tornado struck downtown Sabetha, Kansas, and a series of tornadoes struck the North Oklahoma City area. (3 significant) Upper Great Lakes severe weather outbreak of August 23, 1998.
The storm killed at least 5 people directly, as well as 2 people indirectly through wildfires partly spawned by the storm, and caused at least $1.8 billion (2021 USD) in damages. [4] The number of tornadoes in this event broke a record for largest outbreak in the month of December that had been set less than a week prior.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued 126 tornado warnings in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 9, a new state record. A total of 45 tornado reports were received, but the NWS has only surveyed 28 ...
[45] 2 miles (3.2 km) before impacting Princeton, the tornado hit and destroyed a Kentucky mesonet station, which recorded 120.1 miles per hour (193.3 km/h) winds, setting the new record for the highest measured wind gust in Kentucky history. [46] Within two-miles, the tornado intensified a minimum of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). [46]
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large and devastating multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011.Part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak, the EF5 tornado began just west of Joplin and intensified very quickly, reaching a maximum width of nearly one mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city.