1.
Jarrell, Texas – May 27, 1997
This tornado traveled more than 7.5 miles across Jarrell and was estimated to be ¾ mile wide
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Considered by some to be the strongest F5/EF5 damage ever seen, given the totality of destruction with multiple well-built homes swept cleanly off their foundations.
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Bridge Creek-Moore, Oklahoma – May 3, 1999
This tornado hit on a day when 66 other tornadoes barreled through Oklahoma and Kansas. This one alone took dozens of lives and caused over $1 billion in damage.
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Doppler radar measured winds of 318 mph, the highest ever measured on earth. While this reading was from higher up in the tornado and winds were probably somewhat lower at ground level, this tornado was possibly the most intense of modern times.
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Jordan, Iowa – June 13, 1976
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Ted Fujita, tornado science pioneer and the inventor of the Fujita scale used (in modified form) to measure tornado intensity, considered this the most intense tornado he ever studied.
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Guin, Alabama – April 3, 1974
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Super Outbreak of 1974 – April 3, 1974
Seven F5 tornadoes hit Guin and Tanner in Alabama, Cincinnati and Xenia in Ohio, Stamping Ground and Brandenburg in Kentucky, as well as Hanover-DePauw, Indiana.
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Greensburg, Kansas – May 4, 2007
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Jefferson County, Alabama – April 8, 1998
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8.
Andover, Kansas – April 26, 1991
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Parkersburg-New Hartford, Iowa – May 25, 2008
This tornado’s winds are estimated to have peaked at 205 miles per hour. Taking nine lives, it was the deadliest tornado to hit Iowa in 40 years.
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Lawrence County, Tennessee – April 16, 1998
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Chandler, Minnesota – June 16, 1992
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Oakfield, Wisconsin – July 18, 1996
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Goessel, Kansas – March 13, 1990
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Hesston, Kansas – March 13, 1990
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Niles, Ohio – Wheatland, Pennsylvania – May 31, 1985
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Barneveld, Wisconsin – June 7, 1984
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Broken Bow, Oklahoma – April 2, 1982
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Jefferson County, Alabama – April 4, 1977
Known as the “1977 Birmingham tornado,” this twister decimated a northern suburb of the city; the same storm system spawned seventeen other tornadoes in seven states that day.
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Brownwood, Texas – April 19, 1976
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Spiro, Oklahoma – March 26, 1976
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