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The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation. There are two main models: the original F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter variants, and the extensively updated F-5E and F-5F Tiger II variants.
From May 19–22, 1957, a tornado outbreak took place across the US Central Plains.A total of 59 tornadoes were reported from Colorado to the Mississippi Valley. [note 1] [note 2] The most destructive tornado of the severe weather event—likely part of a long-lived family—was rated at F5, the highest level, and is often called the Ruskin Heights tornado, after the site of its worst damage ...
The tornado first formed around 4:10 p.m. CST (22:10 UTC) about three miles (5 km) north-northwest of the Lorena community. It quickly began damaging structures, destroying a home near Lorena as it tracked north-northeastward. [6] The tornado produced F5 damage outside of the city of Waco.
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 ...
Grazulis considered the tornado to be "possibly F5." [154] Jun 8: 1953: United States Ohio: Cygnet: 18: Grazulis: Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence – Possible but unverifiable F5 damage occurred near Cygnet where homes were swept completely away. A steel-and-concrete bridge was destroyed as the tornado passed near Jerry City. [155 ...
[38] 6 people were killed and 364 were injured, and the tornado had F5 windspeeds at various points during its lifetime. [39] Another large F4 tornado touched down near Glen Este, destroying 35 homes, 50 barns, and killing one person. [40] The tornado caused a total of $7.5 million (1968 USD) in damages. [41]
The worst event was a violent and long-lived F5 tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park tornado after the name of a recently opened Jackson, Mississippi shopping center that was leveled by the storm. [2] The storm would bring catastrophic damage in Mississippi and Alabama along a 202.5-mile (325.9 km) track. The outbreak killed 58, injured 521 ...
The 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that struck the southern and central U.S Great Plains States on May 25–26, 1955. It produced at least 48 tornadoes across seven states including two F5 tornadoes in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and Udall, Kansas that caused most of the casualties.