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The tornado inflicted an estimated total of $1 billion (1999 USD) [8] in damage to the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, making it the second-costliest in Oklahoma history. [9] Another F4 tornado that had killed 42 people in Wichita Falls, Texas moved into Jefferson County , but caused no deaths along the Oklahoma portion of its path. [ 48 ]
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
The tornado killed two people, injured thirty-three more, and inflicted an estimated total of $25 million (2024 USD) in damage along a 40.8-mile (65.7 km) path. The tornado was the third to be rated EF4 in 2024, and was part of the most active year for tornadoes in Oklahoma history.
Storm damage is seen in Canadian County, Monday, May 20, 2024. A possible tornado came through the area near Cimarron Road and NW 10 on Sunday evening.
The strongest tornado from that day was an EF-5 which tore through Bridge Creek, Oklahoma City, Moore and Del City, which caused a total of $1.5 billion in damage. That day, a total of 74 ...
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma City, a damage survey estimated an EF3 tornado tore through a community southeast of downtown. The Enhanced Fujita scale, which meteorologists use to classify tornadoes ...
High risk convective outlook issued by the Storm Prediction center at 13:00 UTC on May 6. Starting April 30, the Storm Prediction Center noted that certain models, including the ECMWF, forecasted a multi-day period of high instability and supportive wind shear across the Southern and Central Plains, [10] and by May 1, a 15% risk was added across Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas. [11]
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 ...