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It is considered an F5 on the Fujita Scale, holds records for longest path length at 219 miles (352 km) and longest duration at about 31⁄2 hours, and held the fastest forward speed for a significant tornado at 73 mph (117 km/h) anywhere on Earth until 2021.
The highest forward speed of a tornado ever recorded was 73 miles per hour (117 km/h) by the Tri-State Tornado. The longest distance a person carried by a tornado and lived, belongs to Matt Suter of Fordland, Missouri.
Tracking a Tornado’s Damage From Every Angle. The El Reno tornado in 2013 was the widest recorded tornado in history. Anton Seimon wants to use slow-motion video and mapping to understand how...
At one point, the tornado was moving with a forward speed of 73 miles per hour (117 km/h), setting the record as the fastest forward moving violent tornado in history. The tornado also became the deadliest tornado in United States history as well as the longest traveled tornado in history.
10 lis 2020 · The tornado was more than two and a half miles wide, the largest ever recorded. Its wind speeds of 300 miles an hour were some of the strongest in weather history.
The highest wind speed ever measured in a tornado, which is also the highest wind speed ever recorded on the planet, is 301 ± 20 mph (484 ± 32 km/h) in the F5 Bridge Creek-Moore, Oklahoma, tornado which killed 36 people.
4 cze 2013 · The previous widest tornado on record was the F4-rated (on the 0-5 scale) Wilber - Hallam, Nebraska twister that touched down on May 22, 2004. It had a maximum width of 2.5 miles.
