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The tornado outbreak of April 17–19, 2019 was a multi-day, widespread severe weather event stretching from the South-Central United States to the East Coast of the United States. On the heels of a significant tornado outbreak just a few days prior , another potent upper-level trough progressed eastward and served as the impetus for widespread ...
List of confirmed tornadoes – Wednesday, April 17, 2019 [note 1] EF# Location County / Parish State Start Coord. Time Path length Max width Summary EFU SW of Glazier to NNE of Canadian: Hemphill: TX: 20:39–20:54 2.43 mi (3.91 km)
April also featured a rare EF0 tornado in Alaska during the middle of the month. As a result, the month was very active with 356 tornadoes, more than double the average for the month and the second most on record in April behind the extraordinarily active April 2011, which had 780 tornadoes.
Tornado outbreak sequence of April 17–19, 1970: April 17–19, 1970: Midwestern United States - Southern United States: 33: 26 fatalities, 68 injuries: A destructive outbreak sequence produced multiple violent, long-tracked tornadoes in the Llano Estacado and the Texas Panhandle. (17 significant, 5 violent, 4 killer) [99] Lubbock tornado: May ...
Based on the 1991–2020 average, about 155 tornadoes occur in the United States in April, while 276 tornadoes occur in May. [1] Activity also tends to spread northward and westward in April compared to the cooler winter months and the Midwest and Great Plains tend to see increased activity, although the relative maxima remains in the southern ...
The latter part of April was extremely active, with a major tornado outbreak sequence on April 19–21 and smaller outbreaks on several other days. The period April 17–28 featured tornadoes on 11 consecutive days. [16] The state of Missouri was hardest hit, with three F4 tornadoes each on April 19–21.
April 17. 1922 – Twenty people were killed across Illinois and Indiana by a tornado outbreak. An F4 tornado killed 11 people in Hedrick, Indiana after undergoing "rapid and unexpected growth" and two others near Ogden, Illinois.
The preliminary figure is a record-high tornado cou. Many cities and towns in the United States have been ravaged by frequent outbursts of severe weather so far in 2023. According to the National ...