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1.5 miles (2.4 km) NWS Birmingham: A large tornado moved across Alabama, reaching a maximum width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km). [30] 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado: EF4 1.48 miles (2.38 km) NWS Birmingham: This tornado reached a maximum width of 2,600 yards (1.5 mi; 2.4 km) and was the costliest tornado ever before the Joplin tornado. [31]
Around 7 p.m., they recorded one measurement of 301 ± 20 miles per hour (484 ± 32 km/h), [10] 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) faster than the previous record. Though this reading is just short of the theoretical F6 rating, the measurement was taken more than 100 feet (30 meters) in the air, where winds are typically stronger than at the surface.
1.6 × 10 −5 quectometers (1.6 × 10 −35 meters) – the Planck length (Measures of distance shorter than this do not make physical sense, according to current theories of physics.) 1 qm – 1 quectometer, the smallest named subdivision of the meter in the SI base unit of length, one nonillionth of a meter.
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It was also a long-track tornado, having covered 52 miles (84 km). [3] Even though it damaged towns and demolished many buildings, there were no damage-cost estimates available. The Hallam tornado became the widest on record until it was surpassed on May 31, 2013, by the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado , which had a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km). [ 4 ]
The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
The quake measured a magnitude 5.0 and was centered about 30 miles northwest of Toyah, Texas and 50 miles from Carlsbad, New Mexico, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Fox Weather 1 day ago