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The lack of activity continued for three weeks until a tornado outbreak sequence began on May 21, and a deadly tornado hit Joplin, Missouri the following day in the event. The outbreak sequence continued for the next several days, with 241 confirmed tornadoes, bringing the month of May near average.
The damage path of the tornado was 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) wide. This tornado was only the eighth in Georgia to be categorized as an F4/EF4 on the Fujita scale since 1950, when current official tornado records begin. [145] [148] [152] It would be the last EF4 tornado in the state until March 26, 2021, when Newnan was struck just after midnight.
EF5-rated damage in Hackleburg, Alabama where a large tornado killed seventeen residents. The 2011 Super Outbreak, which took place across the Southern United States from April 25-28, 2011, was the largest and third-deadliest tornado outbreak in United States history, [1] with 359 tornadoes resulting in the deaths of at least 324 people, [2] [3] the majority of whom lived in the state of Alabama.
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
These tornadoes were part of a major outbreak of tornadoes, the 2011 Super Outbreak, in which 367 tornadoes touched down across 21 states in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States and in Ontario, Canada, making it the largest tornado outbreak on record.
Currently, the 2011 Super Outbreak holds the all-time record for the most tornado emergencies issued during a 24-hour period, with a cumulative total of 16 issued (between four local NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) serving the southeastern United States) during the outbreak event.
The year 2024 will go down in history as the second-worst tornado season on record, beating 2011, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center's said Friday. After a late December tornado outbreak with at least ...
The top tornado-producing storms on record include 2004’s Hurricane Ivan, with 118 tornadoes, 1967’s Hurricane Beulah with 115 tornadoes and 2004’s Hurricane Frances with 103 tornadoes.