Hi, I'mEF5 . If you've seen the movieTwister you should already know what my username means, but if you don't, it's the highest damage rating a tornado can receive on theEnhanced Fujita scale ."They call F5 tornadoes the "finger of God"; few have stared one in the face and survived." -Bill Paxton "He said people shouldn’t be afraid to propose ideas. You don’t want to be so scared that you don’t propose something you believe in." -Roger Wakimoto onTed Fujita "It's prom night. A lot of the high school girls worry about their hair. I've never had to worry about that." -James Spann "A severe thunderstorm with goofball size hail and wind gusts to 60 mph will continue to track across northwest Tennessee over the next hour." -National Weather Service office inMemphis TheApril 27, 2011 "Super Outbreak" of tornadoes has always particularly interested me. In layman's terms, imagine 337 tornado warnings within a 24-hour period, many of which were accompanied by deadly tornadoes. Not a great day.Resources on tornadoes [ edit ] Severe weather events [ edit ] Date Type Summary April 3, 2024 Derecho Basically just a giant derecho. April 27, 2024 Tornado outbreak Oklahoma madness. May 21, 2024 Tornado Arguably an EF5 (but not, in my opinion). March 14, 2025 Tornado outbreak "It's April 27, 2011 all over again!" Was out-of-town at the time. March 15, 2025 April 2, 2025 Tornado outbreak Meh, not really memorable. Was inPuerto Rico at the time. May 16, 2025 Tornado outbreak Included theNancy-London EF4. May 18, 2025 Tornado outbreak Saw the Grinnell EF3 but was asleep at the time of the Greensburg, Kansas tornado (notthe 2007 EF5 , which I've ironically written extensively about). June 20, 2025 Tornado outbreak and derecho Saw the EF3, but missedthe EF5 ! Was inCalifornia at the time (noticing a trend yet?). July 4, 2025 Flood Texas can flood, surprisingly.
[ edit ] F# /EF# State / Country Date Fatalities Injuries Article DYK Class F4 Missouri April 18, 1880 99 200 Marshfield Cyclone F5 Iowa June 18, 1882 68+ 300+ 1882 Grinnell tornado F5–equiv. Missouri, Illinois, Indiana March 18, 1925 695 2027 1925 Tri-State tornado F5 Paraguay September 20, 1926 300+ 500+ 1926 Encarnación tornado F5 Texas April 12, 1927 74 205 1927 Rocksprings tornado EF3 Illinois September 14, 1928 14 100+ 1928 Rockford tornado F5 Arkansas April 10, 1929 23 80 Sneed Tornado IF5 Italy July 24, 1930 23 110 1930 Montello tornado F4 Poland July 20, 1931 6 100+ 1931 Lublin tornado F5 Texas April 3, 1964 7 111 1964 Wichita Falls tornado F5 Iowa May 15, 1968 13 462 1968 Hansell-Charles City tornado F5 Iowa 5 156 1968 Oelwein tornado FU Bangladesh April 17, 1973 681+ 1000 1973 Faridpur District tornado F5 Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana April 3, 1974 6 210 1974 Cincinnati tornado F5 Kentucky 31 257 1974 Brandenburg tornado F5 Alabama 28 267 1974 Tanner tornadoes#First tornado F5 Alabama, Tennessee 16 190 1974 Tanner tornadoes#Second tornado F5 Alabama 28 272 1974 Guin tornado F1 New York November 16, 1989 10 18 1989 Coldenham tornado F5 Kansas April 26, 1991 17 225 1991 Andover tornado F5 Texas May 27, 1997 27 12 Jarrell tornado F4 Ohio September 20, 2000 1 100 2000 Xenia tornado F4 Kansas April 21, 2001 1 28 2001 Hoisington tornado EF5 Kansas May 4, 2007 12 63 Greensburg tornado EF4 Arkansas February 5, 2008 13 163 2008 Atkins–Clinton tornado EF4 Oklahoma, Missouri May 10, 2008 21 350 2008 Picher–Neosho tornado EF2 Wyoming June 5, 2009 0 0 2009 Goshen County tornado EF4 South Dakota May 22, 2010 0 0 2010 Bowdle tornado EF4 Minnesota June 17, 2010 1 14 2010 Conger–Albert Lea tornado EF4 Alabama April 27, 2011 6 48 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado EF4 Alabama 13 54 2011 Cordova–Blountsville tornado EF3 Alabama 7 52 2011 Sawyerville–Eoline tornado EF4 Alabama, Georgia 17 50 2011 Flat Rock–Trenton tornado EF4 Georgia, Tennessee 20+ 335 2011 Ringgold–Apison tornado EF4 Indiana, Kentucky March 2, 2012 12 0+ 2012 Southern Indiana tornado EF4 Texas May 15, 2013 6 54 2013 Granbury tornado EF4 Nebraska October 4, 2013 0 15 2013 Wayne tornado EF4 Arkansas April 27, 2014 16 193 2014 Mayflower–Vilonia tornado EF4 Texas December 26, 2015 10 468 2015 Garland tornado EF4 Oklahoma May 9, 2016 1 0 2016 Katie tornado EF3–equiv. California July 26, 2018 3 5 2018 Carr Fire tornado EF3 Mississippi February 23, 2019 1 19 2019 Columbus, Mississippi, tornado EF3 Tennessee March 3, 2020 5 220 2020 Nashville tornado EF3 Arkansas March 28, 2020 0 12 2020 Jonesboro tornado EF3 Alabama January 25, 2021 1 30 2021 Fultondale tornado EF3 Kentucky December 11, 2021 17 63 2021 Bowling Green tornadoes#Rockford–Bowling Green–Sunnyside–Cedar Spring, Kentucky EF2 Kentucky 0 0 2021 Bowling Green tornadoes#Bowling Green, Kentucky EF4 Iowa March 5, 2022 6 5 2022 Winterset tornado EF3 Kansas April 29, 2022 0 3 2022 Andover tornado EF2 Alabama January 12, 2023 0 2 2023 Selma tornado EF3 Illinois, Indiana March 31, 2023 6 16 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado EF3 Virginia April 30, 2023 0 0 2023 Virginia Beach tornado EF3 Oklahoma April 27, 2024 1 30 2024 Sulphur tornado EF3 Kansas April 30, 2024 1 3 Westmoreland tornado EF4 Oklahoma May 6, 2024 2 55 2024 Barnsdall–Bartlesville tornado EF4 Kentucky May 16, 2025 19 108 2025 Somerset–London tornado EF5 North Dakota June 20, 2025 3 0 Enderlin tornado
Tornado-related images [ edit ] Homes swept to their foundations ("slabs") are the tell-tale indicator of a violent (EF4+) tornado.
Ripping up of the ground in chunks. Not as impressive as it looks at first glance.
Self-explanatory.
EF5-rated tornadoes [ edit ] Self-explanatory.
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