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This article's lead section may be too long. Please read the length guidelines and help move details into the article's body. (August 2024) Tornadoes in the United States 1950-2019 A tornado strikes near Anadarko, Oklahoma. This was part of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak on May 3, 1999. Tornadoes are more common in the United States than in any other country or state. The United States ...
List of United States tornado outbreaks – 1900–1909 Outbreak Dates Region Tornadoes Casualties Notes 1900 Plains tornado outbreak: May 5–6, 1900: Nebraska-Texas-Missouri – ≥3 fatalities, ≥16 injuries: May 6 named "day of the cyclones" by the press. (≥19 significant, 2 killer) 1900 Southeast tornado outbreak: November 20, 1900
Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] ... Total 1946-2025 ≥ 72,724 ≥ 1,483 ≥ 33,081 ≥ 24,418
A total of 317 people were killed and more than 100 were injured on May 6, 1840, when the Natchez Tornado struck southwestern Mississippi. Government officials estimate that the actual death toll ...
Ted Fujita, creator of the original Fujita Scale (used in the United States from 1971 to 2007) Thomas P. Grazulis, meteorologist and author of "Significant Tornadoes" List of natural disasters by death toll; List of tornado-related deaths at schools; List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks. List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
Midwestern United States: Including 66 deaths in a series of shipwrecks in Lake Michigan, including the SS Anna C. Minch, the SS Novadoc, the SS William B. Davock, and others 153+ 1920 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak: Tornado outbreak Midwestern United States, Southern United States: At least 37 tornadoes, including the following:
Since 1996, tornadoes have killed 815 people in mobile or manufactured homes, representing 53% of all the people killed at home during a tornado, according to an Associated Press data analysis of ...