- Oklahoma Tornado Has Given TWO Billion Dollers Damage To USA -

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A building ( 3 hours ago )

A Car Park

A House

A School

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A Building

A damaged car from tornardo

A damaged police car

Damaged two cars

Damaged large building

The Oklahoma tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 60 people with winds up to 200 miles per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

The Enhanced Fujita scale is an updated version of an earlier chart to measure the ferocity of tornadoes published in 1971 by a University of Chicago professor.


In rating the intensity of tornadoes, meteorologists and other experts study damage on the ground, along with wind speeds and other data, to rate twisters between EF0 (the weakest) and EF5 (the most intense).

The scale is as follows:

* An EF5 tornado, capable of causing incredible damage, is characterized by three-second wind gusts between 200 and 234 mph and can level strong frame houses off their foundations, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Automobile-sized missiles can fly through the air in excess of 109 yards, and trees can be stripped of their barked.

On May 3, 1999, a tornado rated as an F5 under the original Fujita scale struck the town of Moore, killing 40 people and destroying thousands of homes. That event caused more than $1 billion in damage, or $1.3 billion in today's dollars.
The devastating tornado that struck the town of Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, killing 161 people, also was an EF5 tornado.

* An EF4 tornado can cause devastating damage, and is capable of leveling well-constructed homes and blowing away those with weak foundations. Cars can be thrown and large missiles generated. Such a twister includes wind gusts of between 168 and 199 mph.

The tornado that struck Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two schools, has been preliminarily rated an EF4, according to a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.

* An EF3 tornado can cause severe damage, tearing roofs and walls off well-constructed homes, uprooting trees, and lifting cars of the ground and throwing them. It has wind gusts of between 138 and 167 mph.
Several EF3 tornadoes have been recorded in the United States this year, including one that touched down in Kemper County, Mississippi, in April, killing one person and injuring four.

* An EF2 tornado can cause considerable damage, tearing roofs off frame homes, demolishing mobile homes, overturning boxcars and snapping or uprooting large trees. Such a tornado is characterized by wind gusts between 110 and 137 mph.
A number of EF2 tornadoes have struck the United States so far during 2013, in some cases causing injuries or substantial damage.

* An EF1 tornado can cause moderate damage, with wind gusts of between 86 and 109 mph. Damage caused in such twisters includes surfaces peeled off roofs, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned and cars blown off roads.

* An EF0 tornado causes light damage with wind gusts of between 65 and 85 mph. The impact can include damage to chimneys, branches broken off trees and shallow-rooted trees being knocked over.

Source: NOAA

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The 10 Deadliest U.S. Tornadoes

Rank	Location(s)	Date	Deaths
1	Tri-State (MO/IL/IN)	Mar 18, 1925	695
2	Natchez MS	May 6, 1840	317
3	St. Louis MO	May 27, 1896	255
4	Tupelo MS	Apr 5, 1936	216
5	Gainesville GA	Apr 6, 1936	203
6	Woodward OK	Apr 9, 1947	181
7	Joplin MO	May 22, 1911	158
8	Amite LA & Purvis MS	Apr 24, 1908	143
9	New Richmond WI	Jun 12, 1899	117
10	Flint MI	Jun 8, 1953	116