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The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado [a] that occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma during the early evening of Friday, May 31, 2013. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the ...
The tornado lifted around 6:45 p.m. CDT (2345 UTC), just to the south-southwest of where it touched down. [32] [33] Initially, the tornado was rated as an EF4, with the rating based on Doppler on Wheels surface wind measurements, which indicated a far larger and stronger tornado. Gusts were measured far into the EF5 intensity range, with a peak ...
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.
Nevertheless, the El Reno tornado is one of the two strongest tornadoes ever recorded in terms of maximum wind speeds, the other being the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado which doppler radar measured 321 miles per hour (517 km/h) mph, later revised to 301±20 mph. The 1997 Jarrell tornado was a multiple vortex tornado. The infamous “Dead ...
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.
One of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded in the United States barreled across southern Plains on May 31, 2013, devastating areas near El Reno, Oklahoma.
This is a list of tornadoes by their official and unofficial width.The average width of a tornado according to the National Weather Service is 50 yards (46 m). [1] The official widest tornado in history is the 2013 El Reno tornado, which a confirmed width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), with the World Meteorological Organization believing the width could have been up to 1 mile (1.6 km) wider.
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 ...