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Tornadoes are among the most powerful natural disasters and can wreak havoc on communities, organizations and businesses. They have happened in all 50 U.S. states and can strike any time of the ...
One of the deadliest and costliest tornadoes in Canadian history. The number of casualties was most likely higher. 1985 Barrie tornado: Bouctouche, New Brunswick: 1879 August 6: 8 F3 Anywhere between 5 and 8 fatalities have been reported, “many” others were injured. This is the easternmost strong tornado ever to occur in North America.
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, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
10 1 1986: 765 0 354 271 116 21 3 0 1987: 656 0 340 239 62 12 3 0 1988: 702 0 283 311 81 24 3 0 1989: 856 0 369 364 102 10 11 0 1990: 1,133 0 537 385 155 41 12 3 1991: 1,132 0 688 295 103 39 6 1 1992: 1,313 0 699 427 129 44 13 1 1993: 1,173 0 733 324 80 30 6 0 1994: 1,082 0 694 272 81 30 5 0 1995: 1,185 0 822 234 98 20 11 0 1996: 1,173 0 743 ...
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
This outbreak sequence produced what may have been one of the most intense F5 tornadoes in US history that killed 10 people in Fargo, North Dakota. An additional fatality occurred in South Dakota from an F2 tornado. (7 significant, 1 violent, 2 killer) Tornado outbreak of November 7–8, 1957: November 7–8, 1957: Southeastern United States: 20
An F5 is the most powerful level for a tornado. ... people at the time — the storm was a mile wide," the Massachusetts Historical Society wrote. "Ten thousand residents, or 5% of the population ...
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...