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The 1957 Dallas tornado with multiple vortices observed at the time as it approached the city. Tornado activity continued into Oklahoma. A large, 600 yard wide F2 tornado killed one and injured two in rural Murray County. A violent F4 tornado then hit Lake Texoma State Park east of Kingston and south of Cumberland, killing two and injuring six.
A massive and destructive 8-day period of tornadoes occurred. All four F4 tornadoes were killers, including a well-documented tornado that killed two and injured four in Union City, Oklahoma and another in central Alabama that killed seven and injured 199. Combined, the F4 tornadoes killed 17 and injured 517 alone.
Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] ... 1957: 857 0 216 305 236 74 23 3 1958: 564 0 145 233 145 36 4 1 ...
The F0 and F2 tornadoes occurred before the Fargo F5 tornado, while the F4 and F3 tornadoes occurred afterwards with all of them happening over a time period of 3.5 hours from 4:40 to 8:10 PM CDT. However, the event is officially listed as one long-tracked F5 tornado. [citation needed] Damage was extensive and included 100 blocks of North Fargo.
From May 19–22, 1957, a tornado outbreak took place across the US Central Plains.A total of 59 tornadoes were reported from Colorado to the Mississippi Valley. [note 1] [note 2] The most destructive tornado of the severe weather event—likely part of a long-lived family—was rated at F5, the highest level, and is often called the Ruskin Heights tornado, after the site of its worst damage ...
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
Thus the tornado was officially rated F3, which is consistent with photogrammetric estimates of 175-mile-per-hour (282 km/h) peak winds in the worst-damaged area. Some time after crossing the Trinity River, the tornado weakened, and shortly afterward passed over a parking lot about 3 ⁄ 4 mi (1.2 km) west of the U.S. Weather Bureau office at ...
Of the 59 such tornadoes since 1950 to achieve that rating, only the 1957 Sunfield, Illinois, tornado and a 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi, tornado did so in December. But there were four other ...