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The worst type of tornado hasn't hit the US for over a decade, perplexing experts
"It’s likely that several of these tornadoes would have been rated F5 using the legacy Fujita scale." Thus, the lack of EF5-rated tornadoes in the past decade is "less due to a weakening of ...
On Today's Date: An F5 Tornado Roared Through Jackson, Mississippi
Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an ...
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When and where are tornadoes most common in Texas?
The most tornadoes reported in a single year was 258 in 2015, including the largest outbreak in Central ... Violent tornadoes — those rated F4/EF4 and F5/EF5 — are much rarer.
Yale Climate Connections9d
New study reveals potential cause of a ‘drought’ in violent EF5 tornadoes
A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn't been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years.
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When is tornado season in Mississippi? What the weather data says is the peak time in MS
The storm killed 58 and injured 795. March 3, 1966: The Candlestick Park Tornado was an F5 that cut a 202-mile path from east and central Mississippi to the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, area. It killed 58 and ...
The worst type of tornado hasn't hit the US for over a decade, perplexing experts
Researches found little evidence that tornadoes were getting weaker. Instead, it appears that a subjective tornado grading system is to blame.