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The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado [a] that occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma during the early evening hours of Friday, May 31, 2013. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes ...
By far the most significant tornado of the outbreak was an extremely large EF3 tornado [a] that struck areas near the town of El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31. With a maximum width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), it was the largest tornado on record.
Massive 2.6 mile wedge tornado outside of El Reno, on May 31. A large, slow moving system produced 134 tornadoes across the Great Plains in the last week of May. Many tornadoes, some strong to violent, touched down across Kansas and Nebraska from the 27th through the 29th, with weaker tornadoes recorded in other states. [64]
The deadly 2013 tornado was not the first of its kind in El Reno. The city was hit by an EF5 tornado in 2011 , resulting in 11 deaths and 293 injuries. In 2019, an EF3 tornado rocked the city ...
This precedent was reaffirmed by the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013, which tracked just south of El Reno, Oklahoma. At peak strength, Doppler radar measured winds over 300 mph .
One of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded in the United States barreled across southern Plains on May 31, 2013, devastating areas near El Reno, Oklahoma.
Initially receiving an official EF3 rating based on damage, the El Reno tornado was subsequently upgraded to a radar-estimated EF5 rating, the highest on the scale, based on data from a mobile radar. The University of Oklahoma 's RaXPol mobile Doppler weather radar, positioned at a nearby overpass, measured winds preliminarily analyzed as in ...
The biggest tornado ever recorded touched down near El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, reaching a width of 2.6 miles and packing winds of 302 mph. Previously, the record was held by a tornado ...