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On August 28, 1969, a strong tornado struck Tianjin. Large hail also fell in Beijing that day. The next day, a supercell produced one of the most violent tornadoes in Chinese history in Hebei Province That evening. The tornado first devastated a small city in the Province around 7:30 PM, where numerous structures were obliterated and 98 people ...
1993 Virginia tornado outbreak: August 6, 1993: Virginia: 24: 4 fatalities: Largest tornado outbreak in Virginia history. Produced a violent F4 tornado that struck downtown Petersburg, Virginia, and killed four people. (4 significant, 1 violent killer) Tornado outbreak of August 8–9, 1993: August 8–9, 1993: Northern Plains: 7: 2 fatalities
The December 1969 nor'easter was a strong winter storm that mainly affected the Northeastern United States and southern Quebec between December 25 and December 28, 1969. The multi-faceted storm system included a tornado outbreak, record snow accumulations, a damaging ice storm , and flooding rains.
1 Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. 2 See also. 3 References. ... 1969: 608 0 195 218 139 49 7 0 1970: 653 0 164 253 191 36 8 1 1971: 889 0 188
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2021 Western North America heat wave: Western North America: Around 600 excess deaths in the United States 2021 Floods and tornado outbreak: 3 $1.56 million (tornadoes), $51.7 million (floods) Midwestern U.S. floods and tornado outbreak of June 2021: Midwestern United States: 2021 Winter storm: 29 $2 billion February 15–20, 2021 North ...
That figure is inflated somewhat by 2011, when one of the costliest and deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded claimed the lives of at least 553 people, including more than 150 in one Missouri ...
Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes are recorded worldwide, with the vast majority occurring in North America and Europe. [9] In order to assess the intensity of these events, meteorologist Ted Fujita devised a method to estimate maximum wind speeds within tornadic storms based on the damage caused; this became known as the Fujita scale. The ...