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1990 saw some unusual and powerful tornadoes and tornado outbreaks. On March 13 not one, but two F5 tornadoes struck Kansas, both coming from the same supercell.This was the only day since the 1974 Super Outbreak to have more than one F5 on the same day until the 2011 Super Outbreak, when four EF5 tornadoes touched down on April 27.
List of confirmed tornadoes – Friday, January 19, 1990 [note 1] F# Location County / Parish State Start Coord. Time Path length Max width F2 Garland: Dallas: TX: Unknown 17:30 0.80 mi (1.29 km) 50 yd (46 m) Numerous houses were damaged, with 18 sustaining severe damage and six being declared "uninhabitable" following the tornado.
June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak: June 2–3, 1990: Central United States: 66: 9 fatalities: Outbreak produced many strong to violent tornadoes across the Ohio Valley. An F4 tornado devastated Petersburg, Indiana, killing six people. Another very long lived F4 tornado was on the ground for 106 miles across Illinois and Indiana.
The following is a list of tornado events by year. ... 1990: 1,133 0 537 385 155 41 12 3 1991: 1,132 0 688 295 103 39 6 1 1992: 1,313 0 699 427
Half-mile wide tornado badly damaged many buildings, homes, and trailers in Indiana. Tornado crossed into Kentucky and struck Mt. Pleasant, where 15 homes and 25 barns were damaged. Five people were injured. This tornado followed a similar path to a devastating EF4 tornado that killed 11 people during an outbreak on March 2, 2012. [3] [4] F2
NWS rates the force of a tornado by wind speed and the damage it leaves behind on a scale named for meteorologist Ted Fujita and refined in 2007 as the "Enhanced Fujita" — EF — in categories ...
A family staying in a camper in Smithville had their home wrecked by an EF-1 tornado on Tuesday. The family had already been dealing with a tragedy from just a year ago.
In general, weather researchers remarked that the overarching pattern on March 13, 1990, was a synoptically evident pattern reminiscent of past tornado outbreaks. [2] The National Severe Storms Forecast Center – known in modern times as the Storm Prediction Center – responded to this pattern by issuing a broad Moderate risk for severe ...