* June 13 – In Hungary, a most devastating tornado called " Wildkansas " struck, and left a 500-1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction, landed at Bia, and after 3 hours it ended near Vác, destroyed a village called Páty completely, and left many people homless, killed 9 people, and 50 people got wounded.

* May 6 – A tornado outbreak near the Twin Cities in Minnesota kills 13 and injures 683.

A tornado near Seymour, Texas

Since many tornadoes are audible only when very near, sound is not reliable warning of a tornado.

This tornado, near Dimmitt, Texas, was one of the best-observed violent tornadoes in history.

This is a distinct phenomenon from a satellite tornado, which is a weaker tornado which forms very near a large, strong tornado contained within the same mesocyclone.

This belief is partly inspired by widely-circulated video captured during the 1991 tornado outbreak near Andover, Kansas, where a news crew and several other people take shelter under an overpass on the Kansas Turnpike and safely ride out a tornado as it passes by.

A Doppler On Wheels unit observing a tornado near Attica, Kansas

A " Friday the 13th " storm in November 1981 brought winds up to, with other storms including the inauguration day storm of January 20, 1993, the Guadalupe Day storm of December 12, 1995 ( with winds up to at Washougal, Washington ) and small tornado on January 10, 2008, which destroyed a boathouse at Vancouver Lake and caused damage to buildings in Hazel Dell before dissolving near Hockinson.

Moments later, that same supercell thunderstorm produced an F5 tornado struck northeastern Tuscaloosa near the Black Warrior River before entering western Jefferson County where it destroyed Oak Grove High School and killed thirty-two people in its path.

Moments later, an F5 tornado struck northeastern Tuscaloosa near the Black Warrior River before entering western Jefferson County.

In the late spring of 2009, a weather research team known as VORTEX2 observed the full life cycle of a tornado near the border with Nebraska in Goshen County.

The tornado first touched down near the Colonial Heights Middle School football field, damaging the field clubhouse roof, then causing roof damage and spill onto I-95 from Medallion Pool business.

The tornado then continued across Temple Avenue, causing tree and roof damage in the neighborhood near Fine Drive and Puddledock Road ( in Prince George County ) before lifting for good.

Another tornado on May 8, 1888, did considerable damage, as did a hailstorm near the same time that reportedly left hail 3-4 inches deep and in drifts 5 – 8 feet high, after falling for two hours.

The tornado remained on the ground throughout Crawford County until it entered neighboring Barton County, Missouri — traveling a total of and ending near Liberal, Missouri.

This tornado dissipated near the west end of the Mall in Washington, D. C., and was followed by many reports of funnel clouds.

The tornado, which spawned in Oklahoma and crossed into west Fort Smith near the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau Rivers, killed 2, injured 89 and cost $ 300 million in damage.

The tornado was later confirmed on the same day as an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with winds near 150 to 160 mph.

The tornado's path of destruction was wide and the tornado travelled a path of along Highway 61, across the Mississippi state line, ending near Lula, Mississippi.

In 2004, during Hurricane Ivan, dozens of homes were destroyed and 4 people were killed because of a severe tornado striking near the town.

A tornado near Anadarko, Oklahoma

* 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $ 1 billion in damage.

The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.

* 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.

May 1981 tornado outbreak | This tornado hit Binger, Oklahoma.

A rope tornado in its dissipating stage, Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Tornadoes in the dissipating stage can resemble narrow tubes or ropes, and often curl or twist into complex shapes.

Photographs of the Waurika, Oklahoma tornado of May 30, 1976, taken at nearly the same time by two photographers.

The highest wind speed ever measured in a tornado, which is also the highest wind speed ever recorded on the planet, is 301 ± 20 mph ( 484 ± 32 km / h ) in the F5 Bridge Creek-Moore, Oklahoma, tornado which killed 36 people.

Indeed, in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak of May 3, 1999, three highway overpasses were directly struck by tornadoes, and at all three locations there was a fatality, along with many life-threatening injuries.

Oklahoma City has become one of the most tornado prone cities in the United States.

Unknown to them, the same tornado had just laid waste to the city of Blackwell, Oklahoma, where 20 died and 250 were injured.

Particularly destructive tornadoes have struck the Wichita area several times in the course of its history: in September 1965, during the Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak of April 1991, and during the Oklahoma tornado outbreak of May 1999.

Later, on May 3, 1999, it lost its record as most destructive tornado in history to the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado.

* Video from KOCO shows what appears to be a tornado touching the ground in Canton, Oklahoma, 2 March 2008.

The tornado, which occurred during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, had an approximate recorded wind speed of, the highest speed on the first F-Scale, left a swath of destruction over wide at times, and long.

A tornado in Enid, Oklahoma on June 5, 1966.

* Snyder, Oklahoma tornado

The basement or belowground shelters also will serve for tornado or hurricane protection.

* 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.

* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.

* 1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1, 300, injuring 12, 000, and leaving as many as 80, 000 homeless.

* 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

* 1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.

* 1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.

* 1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.

* 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

* 1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

* 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.

* 1979 – Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.

* 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.

In July 2005 Balsall Heath was hit by a tornado, which devastated many buildings around Church Road and Ladypool Road.

These storms can be severe, and the state usually averages one tornado per year.

The fences looked like a cyclone ( tornado ) had hit them.

Severe weather is uncommon in the Chicago area, though there have been some exceptions such as the F4 tornado that devastated the south side of the city on April 21, 1967.

* 2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.

While situated squarely in the path of Tornado Alley no devastating tornado has ever touched down in Davenport.

* 1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U. S. history.