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The 1990 Plainfield tornado was a devastating tornado that occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 28, 1990. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. [1] It is the only F5/EF5 rated tornado ever officially recorded in August in the United States (the 1883 Rochester, Minnesota cyclone is unofficially considered an F5), and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area.
The Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 20, 2013, is the most recent tornado to be rated EF5 as of 2025. The Xenia, Ohio, F5 tornado of April 3, 1974.This was one of two tornadoes to receive a preliminary rating of F6, which was downgraded later to a rating of F5.
1990 saw some unusual and powerful tornadoes and tornado outbreaks. On March 13 not one, but two F5 tornadoes struck Kansas, both coming from the same supercell.This was the only day since the 1974 Super Outbreak to have more than one F5 on the same day until the 2011 Super Outbreak, when four EF5 tornadoes touched down on April 27.
F5 1990 Plainfield tornado: Birmingham, Alabama: 1998 April 8 $202,830,000 $383,780,491: F5 Tornado outbreak of April 6–9, 1998: Oak Lawn—Evergreen Park—Chicago Illinois: 1967 April 21 $40,000,000 $369,361,677: F4 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak [5] (Total damages may have been greater than this.) St. Louis—East St. Louis, Illinois: 1896 ...
On April 5, 1936, an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 people. The tornado was part of a tornado outbreak that spawned more than a dozen tornadoes on April 5 and 6 of that year.
A violent F5 tornado destroyed Brandenburg, Kentucky, and killed 31, and another F5 tornado destroyed a large section of Xenia, Ohio, killing 32. Three F5 tornadoes occurred in Alabama, including one of the strongest tornadoes on record, a long-tracked F5 tornado that obliterated a large section of Guin, killing 28 people, 20 of them in Guin alone.
Through this, tornado severity is ranked from F1 to F5 (the "F" stands for Fujita), with F5 being the worst on the scale. An F5 is the most powerful level for a tornado.
In the Plainfield and Foster tornado's path, a heavy, large trailer was pushed about 50 feet (15 meters), according to the service. That twister touched down intermittently for 6 miles (9 kilometers).