What are some other famous tornado outbreaks?
Palm Sunday (11 April) 1965 ranks as perhaps the second greatest outbreak of U.S. tornadoes. Some 37 tornadoes killed 271 midwesterners. The injury toll was greater than 5000. The 3 May 1999 outbreak in the Oklahoma City area produced over 50 touch downs, many in urban and suburban areas. Over $1 billion in property losses were tallied, with around 50 fatalities. One of the twisters were reported to have a peak wind speed of about 315 mph, as determined by mobile Doppler radar, making it the strongest wind ever recorded on Earth. On 21 November 1992, some 94 twisters blasted 13 states , ranging from Mississippi to Indiana to Maryland, leaving 26 dead, 641 injured and causing $291 million in damages. On 28 March 1984, 22 tornadoes killed 57, injured 1,248 and left behind $200 million in damages in South and North Carolina. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario were ravaged by 41 tornadoes on 31 May 1985, killing 75 (in the U.S.) , injuring 1.025 persons and damaging $450 worth of property. One
