Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
StormReady was initiated in 1999 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in an area which has experienced a number of severe tornadoes; there has been at least one tornado in the Tulsa area each year since 1950. [4] Its sponsors saw formal recognition as a way to increase cooperation among the various agencies responsible for disaster preparedness.
The tornado was also the 118th tornado to strike the Oklahoma City area since 1890. Total damage was estimated at $1 billion (1999 USD). [25] June 12, 1942 F4 35 100 Oklahoma City metropolitan area: This was the deadliest tornado to strike the Oklahoma City area until the May 3, 1999 F5 tornado.
Here's what you need to know to prepare your storm shelter and go-bag in case you need to take shelter during a tornado. Oklahoma storm shelters: Prepare now for severe weather
The squall line affecting the area has produced several tornado-warned storms in southwest Oklahoma, and contains wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour, the National Weather Service in Norman said ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
Moore had suffered catastrophic tornado strikes before the 2013 storm, but the massive 2013 twister was the final straw that led to a storm shelter program in the city. In May 1999, an F5 tornado ...
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning until 6:45 a.m. Monday to include Oklahoma City and surrounding towns including Yukon, Mustang, Moore and Edmond.
The 2011 Chickasha-Blanchard tornado was a large and extremely violent EF4 tornado that impacted the southern side of Chickasha, Oklahoma and rural areas around Blanchard and Newcastle, Oklahoma in the late afternoon of May 24, 2011. The tornado killed one person and injured 48 others as the tornado traveled a path length of 33.3 miles (53.6 km ...