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2019 United States Kansas Lawrence, Linwood: 0 (18 injuries) Tornado outbreak sequence of May 2019 — A large, multiple-vortex, rain-wrapped wedge tornado that damaged or destroyed numerous structures and snapped, uprooted, or debarked many trees. An anchor-bolted frame home was completely leveled and partially swept away.
The tornado outbreak sequence of May 2019 was a prolonged series of destructive tornadoes and tornado outbreaks affecting the United States over the course of nearly two weeks, producing a total of 400 tornadoes, including 53 significant events (EF2+). Eighteen of these were EF3 tornadoes, spanning over multiple states, including Nebraska ...
One of the most intense Plains outbreaks on record, produced five violent tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas. A very violent F5 tornado killed 17 people in the Wichita metropolitan area at Andover, Kansas, destroying an entire mobile-home park. A long-tracked F4 tornado near Red Rock, Oklahoma, produced Doppler-indicated winds into the F5 range ...
But when you look at averages since tornadoes started to be recorded in 1950, this year’s number doesn’t seem that high. From 1950 to 2023, the average tornadoes Kansas saw per year was 61.
The tornado tossed and flipped multiple cars, killing a woman inside one of them. The tornado also damaged several homes and a gas station, bent signs to the ground, and downed trees and brick fences as well. The tornado was a part of a small outbreak of otherwise weak tornadoes that impacted several countries in Europe that day.
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May 2019 is on track to have the most tornado reports of any recorded May, which is typically the most active month in terms of tornado activity. Before Tuesday, there were 442 tornado reports ...
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 ...