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1957 was the most active tornado season on record at the time as multiple tornado outbreaks repeatedly hit the same areas. Texas was especially hard hit throughout the year. April and May both saw a record-breaking 200+ tornadoes with numerous outbreaks throughout the months. [1]
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.
The tornado is the deadliest to strike the Kansas City metropolitan area, and was the deadliest worldwide in 1957. The tornado was rated F5 on the Fujita scale, the first of three worldwide to receive this rating in 1957. The tornado touched down near Williamsburg at 7:15 p.m., headed northeast.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...