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Destructive outbreak sequence spawned a violent F5 tornado in Texas, a damaging F3 tornado in Missouri, and a deadly F2 tornado in Alabama. (23 significant, 1 violent, 1 killer) [110] [111] Tornado outbreak sequence of May 22–31, 1973: May 22–31, 1973: Great Plains - Midwest - Southern United States - Hawaii: 145: 24 fatalities, 820 injuries
There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area.The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] Year Number of tornadoes FU/EFU F0/EF0 F1/EF1 F2/EF2 F3/EF3
The anniversaries of four of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in United States history all occur within the next 22 days starting Friday. The other two were the Great St. Louis Tornado on May 27, 1896 ...
0–9. Tornado outbreak of April 1880; Tornado outbreak of June 1881; Tornado outbreak of March 27, 1890; 1891 Missouri tornado; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896
The upshot. Twisters tend to strike in Tornado Alley, a nickname for the nation's central region with the most tornadoes from the 1950s to 1990s. 17 Texas, 12 Illinois, 9 Missouri, and 7 Kansas ...
The tornado continued northeast and moved into Bartlesville, Oklahoma, causing additional severe damage before dissipating northeast of the town. [118] [119] [120] Through the overnight hours into May 7, a squall line produced widespread damaging winds and isolated weak tornadoes across all of Missouri. [121]
To date, a total of 201 [needs update] (304 unofficially) [2] known tornado emergencies have been issued by the NWS through its local Weather Forecast Offices; all but 16 of these have resulted in a confirmed tornado, [3] [2] with the resulting tornadoes being responsible for a total of 554 fatalities.