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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.
In the Americas, there are 15 tornadoes on record that caused at least 100 fatalities, the most recent being the Joplin F5 tornado which killed 158 people in May 2011. There are at least 450 tornadoes on record that caused greater than ten fatalities; the most recent of these was the Rolling Fork, Mississippi EF4 tornado which killed 17 people ...
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 ...
The 1925 Tri-State tornado: United States (Missouri–Illinois–Indiana) 1925 3. 681 1973 Dhaka tornado Bangladesh: 1973 4. 660 1969 East Pakistan tornado East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) 1969 5. 600 The Valletta, Malta tornado: Malta: 1551 or 1556 6. 500 The 1851 Sicily tornadoes: Sicily, Two Sicilies (now Italy) 1851 Narail-Magura tornado
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 ...
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 ...
This was the fourth-most violent outbreak in U.S. since 1950 with 11 F4 tornadoes, most intense ever in Arkansas. F4 tornadoes that struck Judsonia and Cotton Plant killed a total of 79 people. Other F4 tornadoes struck Tennessee and Northern Mississippi. The event marked the first time the word "tornado" was used during a public television ...
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 ...