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Grazulis reported 19 deaths (Grazulis, p. 968) Tornado outbreak sequence of April 28 – May 2, 1953: Toledo, Ohio—Lost Peninsula (Michigan) 1965 April 11: 18 236 F4 List of tornadoes in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak: Cotton Valley—Leton—Dykesville—Haynesville, Louisiana: 1947 December 31: 18 225 F4 (Grazulis, p. 933)
One long-track EF3 tornado caused 22 deaths alone in Tennessee, mainly in Castalian Springs and Lafayette. A pair of EF3 and EF4 tornadoes also struck areas in and around Jackson, Tennessee, killing three in the area, and an EF2 tornado moved through Memphis, killing 3. 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak: March 14–15, 2008
There were 40 tornadoes with deaths at schools (234 deaths) before 1953 and 6 events (52 deaths) after that year (not including the probable downburst in New York). Two high fatality events after 1953 occurred in Mississippi (23 in 1955) and Illinois (13 in 1967); accounting for 82% of 1952–2006 deaths, both from violent class tornadoes.
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 Super Tuesday outbreak of Feb. 5-6, 2008, had the most tornadoes for a single February event, with 86 confirmed over 10 states responsible for 57 tornado-related deaths. Five tornadoes were ...
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, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
At least one other storm-related death occurred in Adams County, Iowa, about 90 miles southwest of Des Moines. In addition to a possible tornado tearing into the town of Red Oak, Iowa, another ...
In the United States, the year started off somewhat slow with a below average number of tornadoes through the first three months. However, the El Niño pattern that was in place during that period weakened in April; the pattern shift caused the more traditional Tornado Alley zone to rapidly become extremely favorable for tornado outbreaks, and several large outbreaks occurred in late spring.