A Feb. 21-22, 1971 outbreak claimed 121 lives from Texas to North Carolina, the deadliest February rash of tornadoes in ...

Iowa experienced one of the deadliest and most damaging tornado outbreaks we'd seen in years, including an EF4 tornado that touched down in Winterset, traveled over 70 miles in an hour and a half.

There were also a total of 35 injuries. The EF4 tornado lasted 42 miles and 48 minutes, knocking over several industrial windmills and damaging plenty of farmsteads. Still in May, days later ...

Articles published early online in American Meteorological Society journals discuss weather associated with California wildfires, the "drought" of EF5 tornadoes, and U.S. locations at heightened risk ...

There were no EF-5 tornadoes. However, there were eight EF2, seven EF3, and two EF4 tornadoes. While the high number of tornadoes might concern many, there is good news, McManus said. The wettest ...

The 2024 tornadoes not only varied from the norm in their sheer number, but also their timing. Local residents walk among the debris May 22, 2024, from homes damaged by an EF4 tornado the day before.

“Fig. 1. Photograph of a thrown combine from the ground survey of the July 1, 2023, Didsbury, AB EF4 tornado” from Miller et al. (2024), "Estimating Wind Speeds in Tornadoes using Debris ...

Violent tornadoes — those rated F4/EF4 and F5/EF5 — are much rarer. Only 89 such tornadoes were reported during the same time period, accounting for 0.9% of all tornadoes. In fact, only six ...

The worst of it was seen in the community of Greenfield, where 5 deaths occurred. There were also a total of 35 injuries. The EF4 tornado lasted 42 miles and 48 minutes, knocking over several ...