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    69; -97.136 From April 26 to 27, 1991, multiple supercells across Oklahoma and Kansas led to a regional tornado outbreak. Forced by a potent trough and...
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    propagated into the Great Plains, resulting in a regional outbreak of tornadoes stretching from Texas to Iowa. Violent tornadoes were concentrated in...
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  • Thumbnail for 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak
    The 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that struck the southern and central U.S Great Plains States on May 25–26, 1955....
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  • Thumbnail for 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak
    The 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak was a large, historic, and devastating tornado outbreak that took place across much of the Central United States, with...
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  • Thumbnail for 1913 Easter tornado outbreak
    On March 23, 1913—Easter Sunday—a devastating tornado outbreak affected the northern Great Plains and sections of the Upper Midwest, lasting approximately...
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    A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify...
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  • Thumbnail for List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
    These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in North America. The listing is U.S.-centric, with...
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  • Thumbnail for 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
    southern Great Plains and was responsible for an outbreak of tornadoes from the Kansas–Missouri border to Central Arkansas, including a violent F4 tornado that...
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  • 2021. US Department of Commerce, NOAA. "The April 26, 1991 Great Plains Tornado Outbreak". weather.gov. Archived from the original on June 13, 2021....
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  • Thumbnail for Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence
    deadly tornado outbreak sequence impacted the Midwestern and Northeastern United States at the beginning of June 1953. It included two tornadoes that caused...
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  • Thumbnail for 1925 tri-state tornado outbreak
    March 18, 1925, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recorded history generated at least 12 significant tornadoes and spanned a large portion of the...
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  • meteorologist and tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis created the Outbreak Intensity Score (OIS) as a way to rank tornado outbreaks. For the score, only...
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  • Thumbnail for Early May 1965 tornado outbreak
    significant tornadoes hit portions of the Upper Midwest, and beginning early on May 8, a major tornado outbreak affected the Great Plains states, particularly...
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  • Thumbnail for Tornado outbreak of May 18–21, 2025
    A major tornado outbreak occurred across the Great Plains and Mid-South regions of the United States from May 18 to May 21. This event follows another...
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    Mountains. The Great Plains, the Midwest, the Mississippi Valley and the southern United States are all areas that are vulnerable to tornadoes. They are relatively...
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    Grazulis 1993, p. 987 Grazulis 2001b, p. 22 "The Great Plains Tornado Outbreak and Blackwell Tornado of 25-26 May 1955". Norman, OK Weather Forecast Office...
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    Nebraska. Tornado climatologists distinguish peaks in activity in certain areas and storm chasers have long recognized the Great Plains tornado belt. As...
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  • Thumbnail for 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado
    Deadliest Tornadoes | Mega Disaster | Spark on YouTube Doppler radar animation of the tornado (via YouTube) The Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of May 3–4...
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  • Thumbnail for March 1990 Central United States tornado outbreak
    1990 Central United States tornado outbreak was a tornado outbreak that affected portions of the United States Great Plains and Midwest regions from Iowa...
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  • devastating tornado outbreak affected portions of the Southeastern United States, primarily the U.S. state of Florida. It was the deadliest tornado event in...
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  • Thumbnail for 1947 Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornado outbreak
    significant tornado outbreak produced catastrophic effects over portions of the southern Great Plains, in the contiguous United States. The outbreak generated...
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    original (PDF) on June 1, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2013. "The Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of May 3–4, 1999 Storm A Information". National Weather Service...
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  • Thumbnail for 1925 tri-state tornado
    is sometimes known as the Tri-State Tornado. The tornado touched down as part of a larger severe weather outbreak that hit the United States on the same...
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  • Thumbnail for Tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007
    damaging tornado outbreak significantly affected portions of the Central United States, with several strong to violent long-track tornadoes occurring...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Blue Norther of November 11, 1911
    swings, the cold front brought a destructive tornado outbreak to parts of the Midwest. At least 13 tornadoes touched down across five states as the system...
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  • Thumbnail for Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021
    A deadly late-season tornado outbreak, the deadliest on record in December, produced catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities across portions of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Tornado outbreak of May 19–22, 1957
    From May 19–22, 1957, a tornado outbreak took place across the US Central Plains. A total of 59 tornadoes were reported from Colorado to the Mississippi...
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  • system and a stationary front caused both a widespread and devastating tornado outbreak and historic, life-threatening flash flooding across much of the Southern...
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  • Thumbnail for Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho
    The Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho was a historic tornado outbreak and derecho that began on the afternoon of May 30 and extended throughout...
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    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...
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