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This page documents notable tornadoes and tornado outbreaks worldwide in 2003. Strong and destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the United States, Bangladesh , and Eastern India , but they can occur almost anywhere under the right conditions.
From May 3 to May 11, 2003, a prolonged and destructive series of tornado outbreaks affected much of the Great Plains and Eastern United States. Most of the severe activity was concentrated between May 4 and May 10, which saw more tornadoes than any other week-long span in recorded history; 335 tornadoes occurred during this period, concentrated in the Ozarks and central Mississippi River Valley.
In early May 2003, a series of devastating tornado outbreaks affected much of the Central and Eastern United States. Environmental conditions were unusually conducive to a prolonged period of severe weather, driven by a persistent upper-level trough across the Intermountain West .
2003 South Dakota tornado outbreak: June 21–24, 2003: South Dakota: 125: 2: Tied U.S. record for most tornadoes in one state during a 24-hour period, with 67 tornadoes in South Dakota on the 24th. Produced a violent F4 that literally wiped Manchester, South Dakota, off the map.
On June 24, 2003, an F4 tornado destroyed the community of Manchester, South Dakota, touching down at about 7:45 p.m., just around sunset. "It was illuminated by the sun back behind it, turning ...
List of tornadoes in the outbreak of April 15–16, 1998; List of tornadoes in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak; List of tornadoes in the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence; List of tornadoes in the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence; List of tornadoes in the outbreak of April 6–8, 2006; List of tornadoes in the outbreak of May 4–6, 2007
Tornadoes also hit the city in May 2003 and May 2010, with the May 2010 tornado rated as an EF4. In the years following the 2013 tornado, the focus in Moore turned to the reconstruction of homes ...
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...