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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.
1993 Virginia tornado outbreak: August 6, 1993: Virginia: 24: 4 fatalities: Largest tornado outbreak in Virginia history. Produced a violent F4 tornado that struck downtown Petersburg, Virginia, and killed four people. (4 significant, 1 violent killer) Tornado outbreak of August 8–9, 1993: August 8–9, 1993: Northern Plains: 7: 2 fatalities
May 1989 tornado outbreak; November 1989 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of November 21–23, 1992; 1993 Virginia tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of June 2, 1998; Tornado outbreak of September 24, 2001; Tornado outbreak of April 27–28, 2002; List of tornadoes in the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 7 ...
That figure is inflated somewhat by 2011, when one of the costliest and deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded claimed the lives of at least 553 people, including more than 150 in one Missouri ...
The biggest tornado outbreak on record—with 353 tornadoes for just 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 days (including four EF5 and eleven EF4 tornadoes)—occurred starting on 25 April 2011 and intensifying on April, 26, and 27 (a record-breaking day), before ending on 28 April 2011, now referred to as the 2011 Super Outbreak.
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 ...
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 ...
Two days after the tornado struck, the Associated Press reported a total of 60 deaths; "an unofficial check of mortuaries in the storm area showed 70 known dead." The World History Project reported greater than 400 injuries. [citation needed] (Grazulis, p. 899) 51: Kensett—Judsonia—Bald Knob—Russell, Arkansas: 1952 March 21: 50 325 F4