While never observed, these tornadoes are believed to have had winds of 300 miles per hour (480 km/h) or above, which would make them among the strongest tornadoes in history.

2020年4月10日 · The Top Five Deadliest F/EF5 Tornadoes. 1. The Tri-State Tornado of March 25, 1925. The "single" deadliest tornado in U.S. history was the famous Tri-State Tornado of March 25, 1925.

1974 Guin tornado – According to the NWS in Birmingham, Alabama, this is considered one of the strongest tornadoes ever to impact the United States. Sources indicate that F5 damage was reported along much of the path and that many homes in and near Guin sustained F5 damage.

2021年3月19日 · According to the NOAA, the U.S. averages around 1,200 tornadoes a year, far more than any other country in the world. Some of those tornadoes can be exceedingly deadly and destructive, hitting...

There are at least 450 tornadoes on record that caused greater than ten fatalities; the most recent of these was the Rolling Fork, Mississippi EF4 tornado which killed 17 people in March 2023. By far, the deadliest tornado in United States history and the second deadliest in world history.

2021年5月25日 · As broken records go, this is a happy one. The United States has now gone an unprecedentedly long time between tornadoes rated EF5, the highest ranking on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, the gold-standard technique for assessing a tornado’s strength based on the damage it wreaks.

2020年4月9日 · The strongest tornadoes on Earth strike the U.S. all too often. Here's a look at more than 100 of them.

2024年5月15日 · Here are the top 10 deadliest tornadoes to strike in the United States, according to the Storm Prediction Center. 1. Tri-State Tornado: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana (1925) On …

By the evening, a deadly tornado of unprecedented ferocity had wreaked havoc, claiming a total of 36 lives.

2024年8月19日 · Reflecting on all the possible results—death, destruction, and more—here are 10 of the most terrible twisters to ever take a turn on Earth. One of the first recorded European tornadoes is also...