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It was the third most active year on record, with only 2024 and 2004 having more confirmed tornadoes. 2011 was an exceptionally destructive and deadly year for tornadoes; worldwide, at least 571 people perished due to tornadoes: 12 in Bangladesh, two in South Africa, one each in New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia and Canada, and 553 in the ...
This is a list of all tornadoes that were confirmed by local offices of the National Weather Service in the United States in May 2011.Following the record tornado activity in April, during which 773 tornadoes struck the United States, May exhibited an unusually low number of tornadoes for the first three weeks.
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest, costliest, and one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded, taking place in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States from April 25 to 28, 2011, leaving catastrophic destruction in its wake.
The tornado destroyed the city's water reservoir, causing a loss of clean water coupled with power outages, severe flooding, ... 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950 ...
St. John's Regional Medical Center after the May 22 Joplin tornado. The following is a list of confirmed tornadoes confirmed by local offices of the National Weather Service during the tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 that occurred over the Midwestern and Southern United States.
2011 Tornado: 346 $11 billion (2011 USD) 2011 Super Outbreak: Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and Virginia: 336 tornadoes 2011 Flood: 20 $2–4 billion [45] [46] 2011 Mississippi River floods: Mississippi River Valley: 2010 Blizzard: 13 $150 million February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard: 16 states in Eastern US 2010 ...
Including 33 deaths due to flooding 186 2011 Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011: Tornado outbreak sequence Midwestern United States, Southern United States: $7,000,000,000 (2011) Including the Joplin, Missouri tornado, which caused 158 direct and 8 indirect deaths, the latter of which are included here. 185–200 1863 Lawrence Massacre
From May 21 to May 26, 2011, one of the largest tornado outbreaks on record affected the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States.A six-day tornado outbreak sequence, most of the tornadoes developed in a corridor from Lake Superior southwest to central Texas, while isolated tornadoes occurred in other areas.