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The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 360 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 216 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [6] [13] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
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 ...
This is a list of the deadliest tornadoes in world history. This list includes confirmed individual tornadoes that caused 100 or more direct fatalities. The deadliest tornadoes by far have occurred in a small area of Bangladesh and East India. In this 8,000-square-mile (21,000 km 2) area, 24 of the 42 tornadoes which are known to have killed ...
A major tornado outbreak killed at least 77 people across the Southeastern United States. A long-lived family of tornadoes, the strongest of which was rated F4, killed at least 30 people in Mississippi and Tennessee, including 11 near Strayhorn, Mississippi and 15 on plantations in Tunica County, Mississippi. Another F4 tornado devastated the ...
At least one F1, an F2, and an F3 tornado caused significant damage. The villages of Micheln and Trebbichau in Saxony-Anhalt were heavily impacted by one of the most damaging tornadoes in modern German history. [136] 2004 Finland tornado outbreak: 20 August 2004: Finland: 3: None: 1 F3 (track 10 km) and 2 F1 tornadoes were reported. [137]
Tornado climatology. Areas worldwide with the highest frequency of tornadoes are indicated by orange shading. Tornadoes have been recorded on all continents except Antarctica. They are most common in the middle latitudes where conditions are often favorable for convective storm development. The United States has the most tornadoes of any ...
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, [ 1 ] although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the ...