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First of the Palm Sunday outbreaks; one of the deadliest outbreaks in US history. Tornadoes devastated the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, including parts of the Chicago metropolitan area. Other long-track killer tornadoes tore across the Southern states. Official death toll is uncertain and may be considerably higher than what is listed.
(NOAA SPC) As of Thursday morning, there have been 699 preliminary tornado reports across the United States, well above the historical average of 549 through May 8, according to the Storm ...
It moved onshore, snapping and twisting some small trees and removing shingles from at least one home. The tornado then intensified, collapsing the porch of a home and significantly damaging a portion of its roof. The tornado continued northwestward through town, causing more minor damage to homes before dissipating at a golf course. [26] EF0
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
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 ...
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...
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 ...