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The 1957 Dallas tornado with multiple vortices observed at the time as it approached the city. Tornado activity continued into Oklahoma. A large, 600 yard wide F2 tornado killed one and injured two in rural Murray County. A violent F4 tornado then hit Lake Texoma State Park east of Kingston and south of Cumberland, killing two and injuring six.
[14] [note 3] 1974 marked the first year where significant tornado (E/F2+) counts became homogenous with contemporary values, attributed to the consistent implementation of Fujita scale assessments. [ 18 ] [ note 4 ] Numerous discrepancies on the details of tornadoes in this outbreak exist between sources.
Thus the tornado was officially rated F3, which is consistent with photogrammetric estimates of 175-mile-per-hour (282 km/h) peak winds in the worst-damaged area. Some time after crossing the Trinity River, the tornado weakened, and shortly afterward passed over a parking lot about 3 ⁄ 4 mi (1.2 km) west of the U.S. Weather Bureau office at ...
Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] ... 1957: 857 0 216 305 236 74 23 3 1958: 564 0 145 233 145 36 4 1 ...
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 ...
1957 May 20: 44 531 F5 "The Ruskin Heights Tornado" May 1957 Central Plains tornado outbreak sequence, (Grazulis, p. 1,007) 60: Wichita Falls, Texas: 1979 April 10: 42 1,740 F4 Twenty-five fatalities and 30 (out of 59) serious injuries were related to people trying to seek shelter or outrun the tornado in their cars (Grazulis, p. 1,209)
Of the 59 such tornadoes since 1950 to achieve that rating, only the 1957 Sunfield, Illinois, tornado and a 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi, tornado did so in December. But there were four other ...
In addition to confirmed tornadoes, a possible tornado may have destroyed a home in the Woodlawn community, near Sherman, on April 2.Another possible tornado hit Ballard County, Kentucky, on April 3, unroofing homes, destroying a drive-in theater, and uprooting trees.