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Several destructive tornadoes have hit the state of Oklahoma since 1878, the year with the first recorded tornado within state boundaries. Oklahoma, located in tornado alley, experiences around 68 tornadoes annually, many of which are intense (EF3+). The deadliest, rated F5, hit Woodward, Oklahoma on April 9, 1947.
This map shows the paths of fatal tornadoes crossing Oklahoma in 2024, as of May 31. April 27 - Sulphur A slow-moving storm produced at least 32 tornadoes on April 27 and April 28, according to ...
Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas , South Dakota , Iowa and Nebraska .
KFOR-4 shared a map of 17 tornadoes that occurred Saturday night into early Sunday. The National Weather Service on Sunday evening released preliminary damage survey results for four tornadoes ...
Tornadoes in the South tend to be deadlier than those in the Plains because of several factors such as longer, larger tornado paths, expanding population, more mobile homes and more nighttime ...
A map of the meteorological setup of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.The map displays surface and upper level atmospheric features associated with the outbreak. The Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was part of a much larger outbreak which produced 71 tornadoes across five states throughout the Central Plains on May 3 alone, along with an additional 25 that touched down a day later in some of ...
Map, severity. Most tornadoes in Oklahoma in a day. Thoren said the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak is one of the state's highest tornadoes in one day. ... One of those left destruction in the town ...
April 25, 1893: Two tornadoes caused damage in Norman and Moore, with the second tornado killing 31 people and injuring “many” others.The National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma identified this as a “significant” tornado and one of the “five strong/violent” that day in Oklahoma, suggesting the 1.25 miles (2.01 km) wide tornado was at least equivalent to F2 intensity and possibly ...