Deadliest twister in recorded U.S. history The deadliest twister in recorded U.S. history struck 100 years ago Tuesday, touching down in southeastern Missouri and tearing up everything in ...
Spring has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere and the tornado season, especially in the U.S. east of the Rockies, has been ramping up. From March 13-17, over 100 twisters were reported that ...
April 10, 1929, was the day the only documented F5 tornado occurred in Arkansas. It stretched from southern Batesville to ...
21 in Indiana. There were 30 violent tornadoes rated then F4 and F5. The longest tornado track in Indiana (at the time) occurred in this outbreak. The “Monticello tornado” tracked a whopping ...
MISSOURI – The Great Tri-State Tornado, the longest tracked F5 tornado in U.S. history ... At times, the twister was up to a mile wide, with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour.
Most tornadoes have wind speeds well under the 201 mph threshold for EF5, Lyza said. The second reason is that ratings are based on damage, and the number of structures that can withstand winds up ...
Even by Plains standards, this was an unusually large, violent tornado outbreak so early in spring. One Kansas tornado was ...