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The tornado was the costliest in Oklahoma history and the third costliest in US history, leaving an estimated $2 billion (2013 USD) worth of damages in its wake. [12] Tornadoes in Oklahoma have broken numerous national and worldwide records. Both the widest and most powerful tornadoes ever recorded occurred in Oklahoma.
On June 8, 1974, a significant tornado outbreak affected portions of the southern Great Plains and the Upper Midwest.The outbreak produced 36 tornadoes, at least 19 of them significant or intense, and is the second-deadliest June tornado event in Oklahoma history, with 16 deaths reported in the state, second only to the 35 people killed by an F4 tornado on June 12, 1942, in Oklahoma City. [1]
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 ...
Tornado touched down over a rural area of eastern Oklahoma and tracked eastward into Arkansas. In Adair county, a hardwood forest was mostly leveled by the tornado. [28] The tornado then moved into the Ozark National Forest within Crawford County, Arkansas, downing numerous trees. Impact to structures began near the communities of Hogeye and ...
1947 Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes, the deadliest tornado event in Oklahoma history and the sixth-deadliest in U.S. history; 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes, an event featuring the first-ever official tornado forecast; 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak, an outbreak featuring several tornadoes throughout Oklahoma, including the ...
Recent Oklahoma tornado outbreaks In 2023, there were 18 confirmed tornadoes on April 19 . One of those left destruction in the town of Shawnee, and another left one dead near Cole.
The thunderstorms producing tornadoes over the north-central United States on May 10. The event started in Oklahoma on May 7 as an initial low pressure crossed the southern Plains and produced tornadoes across the Oklahoma City area producing scattered damage throughout the Metro Area including in Yukon, Bethany, Warr Acres and north Oklahoma City.
The northeastern Oklahoma community of Barnsdall experienced a damaging tornado that caused injuries and one death. It was the second time in about a month that a tornado hit Barnsdall.