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1.5 miles (2.4 km) NWS Birmingham: A large tornado moved across Alabama, reaching a maximum width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km). [30] 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado: EF4 1.48 miles (2.38 km) NWS Birmingham: This tornado reached a maximum width of 2,600 yards (1.5 mi; 2.4 km) and was the costliest tornado ever before the Joplin tornado. [31]
Some believed they reach 400 miles per hour (640 kilometers per hour); others thought they might exceed 500 miles per hour (800 km/h), and perhaps even be supersonic. One can still find these incorrect guesses in some old (until the 1960s) literature, such as the original Fujita intensity scale developed by Dr. Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita in ...
It was also a long-track tornado, having covered 52 miles (84 km). [3] Even though it damaged towns and demolished many buildings, there were no damage-cost estimates available. The Hallam tornado became the widest on record until it was surpassed on May 31, 2013, by the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado , which had a width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km). [ 4 ]
13 cm = 1.3 dm – body length of a Goliath birdeater; 15 cm = 1.5 dm – approximate size of largest beetle species; 19 cm = 1.9 dm – length of a banana; 26.3 cm = 2.6 dm – length of average male human foot; 29.98 cm = 2.998 dm – distance light in vacuum travels in one nanosecond; 30 cm = 3.0 dm – maximum leg length of a Goliath birdeater
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A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
By the time it entered Lancaster County, it measured an F4 on the Fujita scale and the damage path was 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide. The tornado passed into Otoe County, disappearing just west of Palmyra at 9:10. The tornado had a path length of about 54 miles, and was on the ground for 100 minutes.
Comet 2014 UN271 was observed during a mission called the Dark Energy Survey back in 2014, but skywatchers didn't realize that the data gathered was showing a comet until mid-June of this year.