The tornado was down for 32 minutes, in which time it managed to sweep away several hundred well built, anchored homes, leaving behind damaged foundations in its. The tornado also set a new record for the most damaging tornado on record, doing 3.4 billion in damages. The Midwest and Plains regions have the highest concentration of tornadoes on earth, and despite tornadoes occurring on other continents, amateur storm chasers should check out these locations to find their next tornado (though you should probably leave that to the pros). The 2017 Oklahoma City tornado was a devastating EF5 event that was held responsible for at least 51 deaths and 344 injuries. Tornadoes list doesn’t account for tornado-like weather and strong winds in the states. To be defined as a tornado, it must touch the ground and be a convective cloud at the same time, and the U.S. CDT and ended 4.8 miles (7.7 km) east of Moore, a southern suburb of Oklahoma City, at 3:35 p.m. The twister touched down 4.4 miles (7.1 km) west of Newcastle at 2:45 p.m. Oklahoma is in a close second, with 70 tornadoes touching down in one day. The tornado cleared a path up to 1.3 miles (2 kilometers) wide along a 17-mile-long (27 km) stretch of central Oklahoma, according to the National Weather Service. Tornadoes, Tennessee is the state hardest hit by tornadoes, and can experience up to 72 in one day during peak season even though most of the state is not in the centre of Tornado Alley. Though there is no definitive border to Tornado Alley, its core dominates the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and part of northern Texas, but high numbers of tornadoes can occur even in areas like Colorado, the Dakotas, and Florida.Īccording to U.S. You can probably guess that most of the United States’ tornado activity occurs in the aptly named, “Tornado Alley.” The majority of the land in the American Midwest is prone to tornadoes, especially in the flat land of the Great Plains.

Oklahoma tornado 2017