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Tornado arrived with no warning. Tingley, a town of less than 200 residents in northern Ringgold County, was busy with clean-up efforts on Saturday afternoon – all keeping an eye on the sky as ...
The fire tornado, which had peak windspeeds of 143 miles per hour (230 km/h), killed at least three people and injured five others while on the ground for approximately thirty minutes. The fire tornado was the most powerful in California history, and was the deadliest fire tornado to ever form as part of a larger event.
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...
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 ...
The tornado killed one person and injured 48 others as the tornado traveled a path length of 33.3 miles (53.6 km) with a peak path width of 880 yards (0.5 miles). This powerful tornado was part of the Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 and was one of the strongest tornadoes in the sequence and was tied for the second strongest ...
The most active day for tornado reports was April 26, 2024, when a series of storms across the U.S. produced more than 100 tornadoes. Deadly tornadoes mark the end of 2024’s extreme weather Skip ...
The tornado officially touched down within the Williamson County line 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Jarrell at 3:40 pm CDT (20:40 UTC), beginning as an indistinct rotation with large amounts of dust rising from the ground. The tornado began to undergo a rapid intensification as the rotation began to morph and widen into multi-vortex structure.
Tornadoes are much less common in the US during December, averaging only around 40 – compared to the nearly 270 seen on average in May. This year, however, there have been 1,783 tornado reports ...