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Tornado damage in Lorain, Ohio The Xenia, Ohio tornado from the 1974 Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated by Ted Fujita himself as an F6 , but it was retroactively downgraded to F5 [ 1 ] Tornadoes in the state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first recorded event ...
The first tornado outbreak to be documented in the new tornado database, this deadly series of intense tornadoes struck areas from the Gulf Coast into the Ohio Valley. The strongest event was an F4 tornado that tore an 82.6-mile-path (132.9 km) near Shreveport, Louisiana , although further analysis concluded that this was likely a tornado family .
List of confirmed tornadoes – Sunday, June 4, 1950 [note 1] EF# Location County / Parish State Start Coord. Time Path length Max width Summary F0 S of Villa Rica: Carroll: GA: 12:00 2 mi (3.2 km) 200 yd (180 m) Caused $2,500 in property damages. F1 Tucker: DeKalb: GA
Just four Ohio tornadoes since 1950 have received the most severe EF5 designation. The last time was May 31, 1985, when an EF5 tornado through Portage and Trumbull counties claimed 10 lives.
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak: June 2–3, 1990: Central United States: 66: 9 fatalities: Outbreak produced many strong to violent tornadoes across the Ohio Valley. An F4 tornado devastated Petersburg, Indiana, killing six people. Another very long lived F4 tornado was on the ground for 106 miles across Illinois and Indiana
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
Strong storms passed through Southwest Ohio overnight, causing tornado warnings. Now, the National Weather Service is looking into storm damage.