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This long-tracked tornado – which may have been a tornado family due its skipping damage path – leveled barns and produced $200,000 in rural farm damage (Grazulis 1991). F0 Velma area Stephens: OK: 0830 0.1 miles (160 m) 33 yd (30 m) F1 N of Chickasha: Grady: OK: 0830 0.1 miles (160 m) 33 yd (30 m) F1 South Oklahoma City: Oklahoma: OK: 0900
An F3 tornado hit downtown Oklahoma City five days earlier, inflicting $2.5 million (1960 USD) [7] in damages to the city and injuring 57 people. [6] The 1970s, like the 1950s, was a particularly deadly decade for tornadoes in Oklahoma, with 433 tornadoes killing a combined total of 110 people. [6]
Oklahoma tornado tracks during the 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak. Several unusual events occurred during the 1955 tornado season. May 25 saw two F5 tornadoes on the ground at the same time in the same general area of Northern Oklahoma and Southern Kansas, both of which caused catastrophic damage and hundreds of casualties.
Most tornadoes in Oklahoma in a day. Thoren said the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak is one of the state's highest tornadoes in one day. On May 3, 1999, there were 58 confirmed tornadoes in the NWS ...
The tornado traveled 2 miles (3.2 km) and was 50 yards (46 m) wide. It injured nine and caused $250,000 in damage. Witnesses did not see the funnel of the tornado due to the darkness, but did report a roar that sounded like an approaching airplane as it went through. [2] [6] [19]
Oklahoma tends to see the most tornadoes during the months of April and May, according to the Storm Prediction Center. The state averages 13 tornadoes in April and 34 in May.
Sulphur suffered Oklahoma's worst destruction during an outreak of severe weather when a tornado plowed through downtown in the community of about 5,000 residents south of Oklahoma City. Kathy ...
On May 24–25, 1957, a tornado outbreak primarily affected the Western High Plains, Central Great Plains, and Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains of the United States. [nb 2] 45 tornadoes touched down over the area, most of which took place across northern and western Texas, in addition to southern Oklahoma.