Portal:Tornadoes

The Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado struck the towns of Windsor, Windsor Locks, and Suffield, Connecticut, and Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, October 3, 1979. The short-lived but intense tornado struck without warning and caused three deaths and 500 injuries along its 11.3-mile (18.2 km) track. It received a rating of F4 on the Fujita scale, one of only three F4 tornadoes in Connecticut's history. (Full article...)

This is a list of all tornadoes that were confirmed by local offices of the National Weather Service in the United States from January to March 2009. (Full article...)

A photo of the Edmonton tornado that occurred that year.

This page documents the tornadoes and tornado outbreaks of 1987, primarily in the United States. Most tornadoes form in the U.S., although some events may take place internationally. Tornado statistics for older years like this often appear significantly lower than modern years due to fewer reports or confirmed tornadoes. (Full article...)

Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak and derecho that occurred on April 1–3, 2024.

A significant tornado outbreak, along with a derecho, affected much of the Midwestern and Southeastern United States from April 1 to 3, 2024. The National Weather Service issued dozens of severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings across those regions during the event. The outbreak first began over portions of the Great Plains and Midwest on April 1, with widespread large hail and damaging winds and a few tornadoes being reported. The outbreak then spread to the Midwest and Ohio Valley on April 2, where the derecho occurred. This was followed by supercell development later in the afternoon. Severe storms also affected parts of the Mid-Atlantic on April 3 as well. A total of 32 million people were estimated to be under watches or warnings, and over 700,000 people were estimated to be without power. Twenty-five people were injured; and five people were killed, all of them by non-tornadic events; three of which happened when downed trees fell onto vehicles in Pennsylvania and New York. The storm system was also responsible for causing flooding in parts of the Northeast, and heavy snow over parts of the Midwest and Northern New England.

The Storm Prediction Center first outlined on April 1 an enhanced risk in areas from north Texas to eastern Illinois, encompassing much of the central United States. In the afternoon hours of the same day, supercell thunderstorms began to develop across northern Texas, moving northeastward and producing large hail. As the event progressed, many tornadic supercells produced brief and weak tornadoes along with high wind gusts; a gust of 90 mph (140 km/h) was recorded in West Virginia, classifying the squall line as a derecho. The National Weather Service declared the tornado outbreak "historic", stating that not only did it set a daily record for West Virginia, but also broke the yearly record, in one day. Ten tornadoes occurred in West Virginia; which also set a state record for the most tornadoes confirmed in a single day. The previous record was seven; set on both April 4, 1974 and June 2, 1998. (Full article...)

February 21

• 1971 – A violent tornado outbreak killed 121 people in the Southeastern United States. A long-track F5 tornado (possibly a tornado family) killed 47 people and injured more than 500 across northeastern Louisiana and western Mississippi. Inverness, Mississippi was completely leveled with 21 deaths and more than 200 injuries. A long-track F4 tornado (identified as a tornado family by Thomas P. Grazulis) killed 57 people and injured nearly 800 as it traveled 160 miles across western and northern Mississippi and into Tennessee. There were 21 deaths in Pugh City, Mississippi and 14 on a plantation near Cary, Mississippi.

February 22

• 1998 – A small but significant tornado outbreak impacted the Southeastern United States, with the worst impacts in Florida, where 42 people were killed. An F3 tornado killed 25 people in Kissimmee, making it the deadliest tornado in Florida history. Most of the deaths were in mobile homes and RVs.

February 23

• 2016 – The first day of a two-day tornado outbreak affected the Southeastern United States. An EF3 tornado killed 2 people and injured 75 in Paincourtville and Convent, Louisiana. An EF2 tornado killed one person near Baxterville, Mississippi. Another EF3 tornado moved through northeastern Pensacola, Florida, causing three injuries.

• ...that the 2013 Moore tornado that struck Moore and Newcastle, Oklahoma, is the most recent EF5 tornado as of February 2025?
• ...that the 2021 South Moravia tornado, an IF4 tornado with winds between 207–260 mph (333–418 km/h), was the strongest tornado to hit the Czech Republic in modern history?
• ...that five of the six people killed in the 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado were members of the same family?
• ...that Picher, Oklahoma, was hit so hard by a tornado in 2008 that it would become a ghost town in 2015?
• ...that the 2022 Andover tornado injured only three people, despite damaging more than 1,000 buildings?