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Initially receiving an official EF3 rating based on damage, the El Reno tornado was subsequently upgraded to a radar-estimated EF5 rating, the highest on the scale, based on data from a mobile radar.
The 2011 El Reno–Piedmont tornado was a long-tracked and deadly EF5 tornado that struck central Oklahoma on the evening of May 24, 2011. The tornado impacted areas near or within the communities of El Reno, Piedmont, and Guthrie, killing nine and injuring 181.After producing incredible damage in several locations along a path of more than 60 miles (97 km), the El Reno–Piedmont tornado was ...
Apr 28, 2024 · Just one week after the Moore tornado in May 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded touched down in nearby El Reno. A mobile Doppler radar measured winds of nearly 475 km/h in the 4.2-kilometre...
May 10, 2023 · One infamous case was the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado of May 31, 2013, that killed veteran storm chaser Tim Samaras and several others. Radar data from Doppler on Wheels units showed winds reaching 257 mph at about 375 feet above the surface.
Jun 5, 2013 · In the rare category of EF5 tornadoes, the one on Friday in the El Reno area was “super rare,” Smith said. The National Weather Service's Norman Forecast Office, where Smith works, had rated the storm as an EF3 based on structure damage.
Dec 27, 2021 · Listed below is a conclusive summarization of the main points involved in the EF5 designation. More details on these feats, other extraordinary, EF5-level occurrences, and incredible imagery of all these things can be found in the detailed chronological summaries.
May 24, 2018 · 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. “The El Reno tornado is well...
May 24, 2011 · The highest wind gust ever recorded at an Oklahoma Mesonet site was measured near El Reno, as an EF-5 tornado tore a path through Canadian County. The wind speed increased from 61 mph at 4:18 PM CDT, to 66 mph at 4:19 PM CDT, to 131 mph at 4:20 PM CDT, to 151 at 4:21 PM CDT, and then to 91 mph at 14:22 PM CDT.
Due to the extreme nature of the damage at the Cactus-117 oil rig and along I-40, damage in that area was rated EF5. The tornado weakened slightly as it passed north of El Reno and continued northeast, producing EF3 to EF4 damage in rural areas.
May 25, 2021 · As of Tuesday, May 25, 2021, it had been eight years and five days since the nation last saw a tornado rated EF5 by the National Weather Service. This broke a record-long quiet spell in a National Weather Service database going back to 1950, taking into account F5 tornadoes on the original Fujita-Pearson Scale as well as EF5s on the Enhanced ...
