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The June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawned 65 tornadoes, including seven of F4 intensity, in southern Illinois, central and southern Indiana, southwestern Ohio, and northern Kentucky on June 2–3, 1990. In Indiana, 37 tornadoes formed, breaking the single-day record of 21 set during the Super Outbreak on April 3, 1974. [2]
The tornado continued northeast for 34.64-mile (55.75 km), before finally lifting northwest of Carl. The tornado was rated as a high-end EF3 with wind speeds estimated at 155 mph (249 km/h), reaching a peak width of 1,300 yards (1,200 m) along a 34.64-mile (55.75 km) path, remaining on the ground for 38 minutes. [11]
The first significant tornado of the day, an F2 formed near Bellflower, Missouri, and killed one person, a woman. Three students died and 16 were injured when the Dye School in Audrain County was struck by an F3 around 6:15 PM. The same tornado killed one student and injured 19 others at the Bean Creek school a few minutes later.
From August 4–8, 2023, several active days of severe weather impacted the United States, where numerous tornadoes struck the Eastern United States, the Plains, and the Midwest. [4] An EF3 tornado formed in Lewis County, New York , causing significant damage to homes, barns, a ski resort, and a motel. [ 4 ]
The 1974 Xenia tornado was a violent F5 tornado that destroyed a large portion of Xenia and Wilberforce, Ohio, United States on the afternoon of April 3, 1974. It was the deadliest individual tornado of the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 24-hour period between April 3 and April 4, 1974, during which 148 tornadoes touched down in 13 different U.S. states.
The 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak was the third notable US tornado outbreak to occur on Palm Sunday and the second to take place in the Southeastern United States. The outbreak produced 29 tornadoes from Texas to North Carolina, killing 40 people and injuring 491, and causing $140 million in damage.
A moderate risk of severe weather was issued across the Ark-La-Tex region and lower Mississippi Valley. [10] There were five EF0 tornadoes in east Texas and southwest Arkansas during the late night and into the early morning of April 24. [11] One tornado in Missouri traveled for 22 miles (35 km), but did not cause any significant damage. [12]
Dr. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (The Tornado Project, 1998) Who was the legendary 'Mr. Tornado'? (AccuWeather, May 18, 2021) Oral History Interview with T.T. Fujita (interview by Richard Rotunno on February 2, 1988) Tornadoes and Severe Weather – In Memory of Tetsuya T. Fujita (Dr. Kazuya Fujita)