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The 2013 Moore tornado was a large and violent EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013, with peak winds estimated at 210 miles per hour (340 km/h), killing 24 people (plus two indirect fatalities) [2] and injuring 212 others. [3]
Tornado-damaged areas of Moore, Oklahoma, are seen in aerial photos during a mission flown by the Civil Air Patrol Sunday, May 26, 2013. Cleanup continues after a huge tornado roared through the ...
On May 20, 2013, parts of Moore and neighboring Newcastle and southern Oklahoma City, were affected by a violent tornado. [28] Classified as EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, it had estimated wind speeds of 200–210 mph (320–340 km/h), a maximum width of 1.3 miles (2 km), and a path length of 17 miles (30 km).
Plaza Towers is located in southwest Moore within a neighborhood of the same name. [2] The school's mascot is the panther, named "Paws". [ 3 ] The school's current building opened in 2014 after the previous facility was destroyed by the 2013 Moore tornado ; seven students at the school died as a result of the tornado's impact.
Moore had suffered catastrophic tornado strikes before the 2013 storm, but the massive 2013 twister was the final straw that led to a storm shelter program in the city. In May 1999, an F5 tornado ...
Tragedy struck in the form of tornadoes in Moore again in May 2003 and then May 2013, when another EF5 tornado ripped through the city to leave behind $2 billion in damage as it destroyed schools ...
The tornado that affected Moore, Oklahoma, and surrounding areas on May 20, 2013. From May 18–21, 2013, a significant tornado outbreak took place across parts of the Midwestern United States and lower Great Plains. This event occurred just days after a deadly outbreak struck Texas and surrounding southern states on May 15.
Harrowing details continue to emerge of the devastating tornado that took so many lives on Monday in Moore, Okla. As just one more in a series of increasingly damaging natural disasters, people ...