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Tornado damage in Lorain, Ohio The Xenia, Ohio tornado from the 1974 Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated by Ted Fujita himself as an F6 , but it was retroactively downgraded to F5 [ 1 ] Tornadoes in the state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first recorded event ...
Tornado outbreak of November 15–16, 1955; St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 23–30, 1961; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 3–9, 1961; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 14–31, 1962; 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; List of tornadoes in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
Between April 23–30, 1961, a tornado outbreak sequence [nb 1] struck the Midwest, Ohio, and Mississippi Valleys, and the Eastern United States. Large hailstorms accompanied the tornadoes as well and numerous other weather events also occurred. Three people were killed, 38 others were injured and losses totaled $26.810 million (1961 USD). [4]
January tornadoes, in particular, are so rare that Ohio recorded its first just over four years ago on January 11, 2020. Tornadoes and thunderstorms need heat and moisture to form, two things that ...
United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] Year Number of tornadoes ... 1961: 697 0 154 241 229 66 7 0 1962: 657 0 191 265 ... 2020: 1,082 105 460 405 88 18 6 0 2021: ...
The final three tornadoes of 1961 struck the Southeast. [269] On November 17, an F1 tornado hit Tuckers Crossing, Mississippi. [270] Next, an F2 tornado injured one southeast of Marion, Alabama. [271] The next morning, the final F2 tornado damaged Valdosta, Georgia. [272] In the end, only one person was injured by the tornadoes. [269]
Tornado outbreak sequence of 3–9 May 1961 – [4] [5] NWS: May 30 1961 United States Nebraska: Anselmo, Sargent, Ord: 0 [4] [5] NWS: June 29 1961 United States Montana: Glendive: 0 (1 Injury) This is the only officially rated F4/EF4 tornado ever recorded in Montana. [4] NWS: September 1 1961 United States Iowa: Bristow, Plainfield: 0 (7 ...
In late 2023, American meteorologist and tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis created the Outbreak Intensity Score (OIS) as a way to rank tornado outbreaks. [1] [2] For the score, only significant tornadoes are counted: F2/EF2 tornadoes receive 2 points each, F3/EF3 tornadoes receive 5 points each, F4/EF4 tornadoes receive 10 points each, and F5/EF5 tornadoes receive 15 points each. [1]