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A series of at least four tornadoes hit the Southeastern United States during March 3-4, 1966. The worst event was a violent and long-lived F5 tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park tornado after the name of a recently opened Jackson, Mississippi shopping center that was leveled by the storm. [2]
On May 27, 1997, a large and slow-moving F5 tornado caused catastrophic damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. The tornado killed 27 residents of the town, mainly in a single subdivision, and inflicted approximately $40 million (1997 USD) in damages in its 13-minute, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) track.
The tornado first formed around 4:10 p.m. CST (22:10 UTC) about three miles (5 km) north-northwest of the Lorena community. It quickly began damaging structures, destroying a home near Lorena as it tracked north-northeastward. [6] The tornado produced F5 damage outside of the city of Waco.
On April 5, 1936, an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 people. The tornado was part of a tornado outbreak that spawned more than a dozen tornadoes on April 5 and 6 of that year.
The Barneveld tornado became the most recent F5/EF5 tornado to touch down at night. Group members prior to Barneveld included the Blackwell, Oklahoma and Udall, Kansas tornadoes during the 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak; the tornado that struck downtown Lubbock, TX in 1970; and the Tanner and Guin, Alabama tornadoes from the 1974 Super ...
It was later rated F5 after the Fujita scale was implemented in 1971. Incredibly, only one person was killed in this tornado, a man who remained in (the) open, according to the storm report .
The tornado would receive a rating of F5 on the Fujita scale, and was one of seven tornadoes to obtain that rating as part of the 1974 Super Outbreak. The tornado is widely believed to be one of the most violent in recorded history, and had the fastest forward speed ever recorded in a tornado, at 75 miles per hour (121 km/h).
Tornado damage from the Birmingham F5 tornado (courtesy of NWS Birmingham, Alabama) Continuing past Pleasant Grove, the tornado began to encroach on Birmingham's inner suburbs. This tornado regained its maximum F5 strength as it tore through the communities of Edgewater and McDonald Chapel. Fourteen people lost their lives there and the storm ...