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The 2011 El Reno–Piedmont tornado was a long-tracked, deadly and extremely powerful EF5 tornado that struck central Oklahoma on the evening of May 24, 2011. The tornado impacted areas near or within the communities of El Reno, Piedmont, and Guthrie, killing nine and injuring 181.
As the EF5 El Reno–Piedmont tornado dissipated on the evening of the May 24, a separate supercell thunderstorm produced another violent tornado further to the south in Grady County. [34] Severe ground scouring in the front lawn of a residence in northern Blanchard. All grass and 2 to 4 inches (5.1 to 10.2 cm) of topsoil was removed.
It was the first fatal tornado of 2011. Another strong tornado, rated EF3, resulted in houses destroyed near Eminence, Kentucky. [11] [12] Concentrated tornado activity also occurred in parts of Missouri and Illinois with 22 tornadoes in the region, some as strong as EF2, related to a series of squall lines with many embedded tornadoes. None of ...
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 deadly 2013 tornado was not the first of its kind in El Reno. The city was hit by an EF5 tornado in 2011 , resulting in 11 deaths and 293 injuries. In 2019, an EF3 tornado rocked the city ...
Damage at the Cactus 117 oil drilling rig near El Reno, showing the mangled and overturned rig. On May 24, 2011, a long-track and extremely powerful tornado struck the areas near or within the communities of El Reno, Piedmont, and Guthrie. Not long after touching down, the tornado struck the Cactus 117 oil drilling rig site, completely ...
This precedent was reaffirmed by the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013, which tracked just south of El Reno, Oklahoma. At peak strength, Doppler radar measured winds over 300 mph .
This is a list of all tornadoes that were confirmed by local offices of the National Weather Service in the United States in May 2011.Following the record tornado activity in April, during which 773 tornadoes struck the United States, May exhibited an unusually low number of tornadoes for the first three weeks.