Hi, I'm EF5 . My username comes from the highest damage rating a tornado can receive on the Enhanced Fujita scale .
"They call F5 tornadoes the "finger of God"; few have stared one in the face and survived." – Bill Paxton
"He said people shouldn’t be afraid to propose ideas. You don’t want to be so scared that you don’t propose something you believe in." – Roger Wakimoto on Ted Fujita
"It's prom night. A lot of the high school girls worry about their hair. I've never had to worry about that." – James Spann
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." – Martin Luther King Jr.
The April 27, 2011 "Super Outbreak" of tornadoes has always particularly interested me. In layman's terms, imagine 337 tornado warnings within a 24-hour period, many of which were accompanied by deadly tornadoes. Not a great day.
Resources on tornadoes [ edit ]
Severe weather events [ edit ] I have the nerdy hobby of tracking severe weather with other enthusiasts as it happens (including on radar , radio scanners and security cameras ). A selection of events I've tracked, not including hurricanes:
Date
Type
Summary
April 3, 2024
Derecho
Basically just a giant derecho.
April 27, 2024
Tornado outbreak
Oklahoma madness.
May 21, 2024
Tornado
Arguably an EF5 (but not, in my opinion).
March 14, 2025
Tornado outbreak
"It's April 27, 2011 all over again!" Was out-of-town at the time.
March 15, 2025
April 2, 2025
Tornado outbreak
Meh, not really memorable. Was in Puerto Rico at the time.
May 16, 2025
Tornado outbreak
Included the Nancy-London EF4.
May 18, 2025
Tornado outbreak
Saw the Grinnell EF3 but was asleep at the time of the Greensburg, Kansas tornado (not the 2007 EF5 , which I've ironically written extensively about).
June 20, 2025
Tornado outbreak and derecho
Saw the EF3, but missed the EF5 ! Was in California at the time (noticing a trend yet?).
July 4, 2025
Flood
Texas can flood, surprisingly.
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F# /EF#
State / Country
Date
Fatalities
Injuries
Article
DYK
Class
F4
Missouri
April 18, 1880
99
200
Marshfield Cyclone
F5
Iowa
June 18, 1882
68+
300+
1882 Grinnell tornado
F5–equiv.
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
March 18, 1925
695
2027
1925 Tri-State tornado
F5
Paraguay
September 20, 1926
300+
500+
1926 Encarnación tornado
F5
Texas
April 12, 1927
74
205
1927 Rocksprings tornado
EF3
Illinois
September 14, 1928
14
100+
1928 Rockford tornado
F5
Arkansas
April 10, 1929
23
80
Sneed Tornado
IF5
Italy
July 24, 1930
23
110
1930 Montello tornado
F4
Poland
July 20, 1931
6
100+
1931 Lublin tornado
F4
Nebraska
June 27, 1955
2
40+
1955 Scottsbluff tornado
F5
Texas
April 3, 1964
7
111
1964 Wichita Falls tornado
F5
Iowa
May 15, 1968
13
462
1968 Hansell-Charles City tornado
F5
Iowa
5
156
1968 Oelwein tornado
FU
Bangladesh
April 17, 1973
681+
1000
1973 Faridpur District tornado
F5
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
April 3, 1974
6
210
1974 Cincinnati tornado
F5
Kentucky
31
257
1974 Brandenburg tornado
F5
Alabama
28
267
1974 Tanner tornadoes#First tornado
F5
Alabama, Tennessee
16
190
1974 Tanner tornadoes#Second tornado
F5
Alabama
28
272
1974 Guin tornado
F1
New York
November 16, 1989
10
18
1989 Coldenham tornado
F5
Kansas
April 26, 1991
17
225
1991 Andover tornado
F5
Texas
May 27, 1997
27
12
Jarrell tornado
F4
Ohio
September 20, 2000
1
100
2000 Xenia tornado
F4
Kansas
April 21, 2001
1
28
2001 Hoisington tornado
EF5
Kansas
May 4, 2007
12
63
Greensburg tornado
EF4
Arkansas
February 5, 2008
13
163
2008 Atkins–Clinton tornado
EF4
Oklahoma, Missouri
May 10, 2008
21
350
2008 Picher–Neosho tornado
EF2
Wyoming
June 5, 2009
0
0
2009 Goshen County tornado
EF4
South Dakota
May 22, 2010
0
0
2010 Bowdle tornado
EF4
Minnesota
June 17, 2010
1
14
2010 Conger–Albert Lea tornado
EF4
Alabama
April 27, 2011
6
48
2011 Cullman–Arab tornado
EF4
Alabama
13
54
2011 Cordova–Blountsville tornado
EF3
Alabama
7
52
2011 Sawyerville–Eoline tornado
EF4
Alabama, Georgia
17
50
2011 Flat Rock–Trenton tornado
EF4
Georgia, Tennessee
20+
335
2011 Ringgold–Apison tornado
EF4
Indiana, Kentucky
March 2, 2012
12
0+
2012 Southern Indiana tornado
EF4
Texas
May 15, 2013
6
54
2013 Granbury tornado
EF4
Nebraska
October 4, 2013
0
15
2013 Wayne tornado
EF4
Arkansas
April 27, 2014
16
193
2014 Mayflower–Vilonia tornado
EF4
Texas
December 26, 2015
10
468
2015 Garland tornado
EF4
Oklahoma
May 9, 2016
1
0
2016 Katie tornado
EF3–equiv.
California
July 26, 2018
3
5
2018 Carr Fire tornado
EF3
Mississippi
February 23, 2019
1
19
2019 Columbus, Mississippi, tornado
EF3
Tennessee
March 3, 2020
5
220
2020 Nashville tornado
EF3
Arkansas
March 28, 2020
0
12
2020 Jonesboro tornado
EF3
Alabama
January 25, 2021
1
30
2021 Fultondale tornado
EF3
Kentucky
December 11, 2021
17
63
2021 Bowling Green tornadoes#Rockford–Bowling Green–Sunnyside–Cedar Spring, Kentucky
EF2
Kentucky
0
0
2021 Bowling Green tornadoes#Bowling Green, Kentucky
EF4
Iowa
March 5, 2022
6
5
2022 Winterset tornado
EF3
Kansas
April 29, 2022
0
3
2022 Andover tornado
EF2
Alabama
January 12, 2023
0
2
2023 Selma tornado
EF3
Illinois, Indiana
March 31, 2023
6
16
2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado
EF3
Virginia
April 30, 2023
0
0
2023 Virginia Beach tornado
EF3
Oklahoma
April 27, 2024
1
30
2024 Sulphur tornado
EF3
Kansas
April 30, 2024
1
3
Westmoreland tornado
EF4
Oklahoma
May 6, 2024
2
55
2024 Barnsdall–Bartlesville tornado
EF4
Kentucky
May 16, 2025
19
108
2025 Somerset–London tornado
EF5
North Dakota
June 20, 2025
3
0
2025 Enderlin tornado
Homes swept to their foundations ("slabs") are the tell-tale indicator of an intense (EF3+) tornado.
Ripping up of the ground in chunks. Not as impressive as it looks at first glance.
Self-explanatory.
EF5-rated tornadoes [ edit ] Self-explanatory.
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