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The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado [a] that occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma during the early evening of Friday, May 31, 2013. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the ...
By far the most significant tornado of the outbreak was an extremely large EF3 tornado [a] that struck areas near the town of El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31. With a maximum width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), it was the largest tornado on record.
One of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded in the United States barreled across southern Plains on May 31, 2013, devastating areas near El Reno, Oklahoma.
The deadly 2013 tornado was not the first of its kind in El Reno. The city was hit by an EF5 tornado in 2011 , resulting in 11 deaths and 293 injuries. In 2019, an EF3 tornado rocked the city ...
The crushed remains of the TWISTEX vehicle near the intersection of Reuter Road and S. Radio Road approximately 4.8 mi (7.7 km) southeast of El Reno, Oklahoma.. On May 31, 2013, Tim Samaras, his 24-year-old son Paul Samaras, and 45-year-old California native Carl Young died in the record wide EF3 multiple-vortex El Reno tornado. [4]
This precedent was reaffirmed by the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013, which tracked just south of El Reno, Oklahoma. At peak strength, Doppler radar measured winds over 300 mph.
The average width of a tornado according to the National Weather Service is 50 yards (46 m). [1] The official widest tornado in history is the 2013 El Reno tornado, which a confirmed width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), with the World Meteorological Organization believing the width could have been up to 1 mile (1.6 km) wider. [2]
El Reno tornado may refer to: The 2011 El Reno–Piedmont tornado, a long-track EF5 tornado that passed near El Reno and other communities west and north of Oklahoma City; The 2013 El Reno tornado, the widest tornado on record, which passed south and east of El Reno, Oklahoma; The 2019 El Reno tornado, a brief EF3 tornado which struck southern ...