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Cars were lifted 100 feet into the air by the tornado. [5] Paynesville, South Africa tornado: 2 December 1952: South Africa-11 fatalities: The tornado "threw cattle high into the air". [5] Trompsburg, South Africa tornado: 5 November 1976: Karoo-5 fatalities: F3 rated tornado which tracked a 175 km long path, mainly through farmland. [6] [7 ...
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.
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.
At least 11 people have died and more than 50 others are injured after tornadoes tore through parts of South Africa’s coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal on Monday, authorities said.
Powerful drill-bit tornado that was the strongest of the April 30-May 4 outbreak sequence. [116] 2024 Robert Lee, Texas tornado: 140 mph (230 km/h) May 3, 2024 0 Texas: NWS: Traveled 3.53 miles (5.68 km) and peak width of 350 yd (320 m). Tornado was originally rated high-end EF1 before getting upgraded in late August due to new damage findings ...
The most notable tornado outbreak of 2023 was the deadly and now historic outbreak that impacted large portions of the Midwest, South, and East U.S. on March 31 and April 1.
The Tehama County, California EFU tornado on January 3, 2025.. From January 3 to January 7 of 2025, a major winter storm passed over the contiguous United States.The storm system made landfall on January 3 over the West Coast of the United States, [4] where it produced the first tornado of the year, a brief EFU tornado in rural Tehama County, California, which caused no damage.
The New Orleans metro area was struck by a strong tornado on this date in 2017, one of six tornadoes in southeast Louisiana. One was the area's strongest since the mid-20th century.