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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.
The most devastating storm was a large, violent, and catastrophic 500-yard-wide F5 tornado family that struck Fargo, North Dakota on Thursday, June 20, 1957, killing 10 people and becoming the deadliest tornado ever recorded in North Dakota. The outbreak caused 11 fatalities, 105 injuries, and $25.883 million in damage.
In addition to confirmed tornadoes, a possible tornado may have destroyed a home in the Woodlawn community, near Sherman, on April 2.Another possible tornado hit Ballard County, Kentucky, on April 3, unroofing homes, destroying a drive-in theater, and uprooting trees.
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 ...
The tornado is the deadliest to strike the Kansas City metropolitan area, and was the deadliest worldwide in 1957. Intensity 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.
Of the 59 such tornadoes since 1950 to achieve that rating, only the 1957 Sunfield, Illinois, tornado and a 1953 Vicksburg, ... the deadliest and longest-tracked tornado in U.S. history.
Two more EF-0 tornadoes came along in December of that year and in 2014, the first causing $50,000 in damage to trees and one home's roof, and an EF-1 tornado in March 2019 with max wind speeds of ...
1 Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. 2 See also. 3 References. ... 1957: 857 0 216 305 236 74 23 3 1958: 564 0 145 233 145 36 4 1 1959: 604 0 145