* 2004 – The U. S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado ( part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence ) that broke a width record at an astounding wide, which kills one resident.

These tornadoes are said to be " roping out ", or becoming a " rope tornado ".

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.

One day, when a tornado blows through the town, Novalee and Americus hide in an underground shelter, but Sister is out running an errand and does not make it back in time.

At about 4: 10 p. m. on April 24, 1908, the city was virtually wiped out by a tornado that became commonly called " The Great Cyclone ," or " The Cyclone of 1908.

On June 1, 2011, a tornado rated at EF-1, struck south of Durham, uprooting thousands of almond trees, destroying an out building and damaging a barn.

In the great Midwestern tornado of 1938, South Pekin was nearly wiped out.

The tornado took out power and cut off water supply.

And the disaster tornado in 1880 nearly took out every house in that town people were devastated when danger struck

A local newspaper printed a picture of the marquee prompting rumors that a tornado had taken the theater out during a re-release of Gone with the Wind.

This tornado nearly wiped out whole roads including Doublewide LN and Akersville RD.

In 1902, the community incorporated, but then it was almost wiped out by a tornado in 1906.

Buildings were flattened, power was knocked out to thousands and debris was scattered for miles after the tornado.

It helped secure rail centers during the railroad workers ' strike of 1922, helped out with the aftermath of the Poplar Bluff tornado of 1927, and worked on the Mississippi River levees during the floods of 1927 and 1937.

This storm knocked out electrical service to large parts of the city for several days and damaged a large percentage of the trees, making this event the worst natural disaster to hit the city since at least the 1986 tornado.

The tornado roped out in the town of Eden.

Approaching a hill they run into a hailstorm, Jo drives ahead of the chasers to intercept the oncoming tornado, and a telephone pole falls on the back of Bill's truck and knocks DOROTHY II out onto the road, disabling it.

This tornado was powerful enough to take out power for the entire city including this station.

The F5 tornado that struck the town of Jarrell, Texas killed 27 people out of 1319 residents.

Although missing the downtown business district the tornado moved through the residential areas of Tupelo, destroying many homes, and killing whole families who had no warning, including a whole family of 13 who tried riding the storm out in their home.

A tornado warning went out for Van Wert County at 3: 02 P. M.

In 1992, 95 tornadoes broke out in 41 hours of continuous tornado activity from November 21 to 23.

A tornado strikes Smallville, and Clark helps out by saving a man before the gas station he is in explodes.

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

* 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.

* 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.

** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.

Occasionally, a single storm will produce more than one tornado, either simultaneously or in succession.

Multiple tornadoes produced by the same storm cell are referred to as a " tornado family ".

Even experienced storm observers may not be able to tell the difference between a low-hanging cloud and a wedge tornado from a distance.

During this stage the shape of the tornado becomes highly influenced by the winds of the parent storm, and can be blown into fantastic patterns.

As the first mesocyclone and associated tornado dissipate, the storm's inflow may be concentrated into a new area closer to the center of the storm.

Often, news of a tornado would reach a local weather office after the storm.

Under the storm and closer to where most tornadoes are found, evidence of a supercell and likelihood of a tornado includes inflow bands ( particularly when curved ) such as a " beaver tail ", and other clues such as strength of inflow, warmth and moistness of inflow air, how outflow-or inflow-dominant a storm appears, and how far is the front flank precipitation core from the wall cloud.

A tornado often occurs as this happens or shortly after ; first, a funnel cloud dips and in nearly all cases by the time it reaches halfway down, a surface swirl has already developed, signifying a tornado is on the ground before condensation connects the surface circulation to the storm.

Debris from a tornado can be lofted into the parent storm and carried a very long distance.

However, a highway overpass is a dangerous place during a tornado: the subjects of the video remained safe due to an unlikely combination of events: the storm in question was a weak tornado, did not directly strike the overpass, and the overpass itself was of a unique design.

Also under study are the low-level mesocyclone and the stretching of low-level vorticity which tightens into a tornado, namely, what are the processes and what is the relationship of the environment and the convective storm.

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.

The storm produced the most significant tornado of the outbreak touched down just southwest of the Grady County community of Amber, Oklahoma at 6: 23 p. m. CDT and headed northeast, parallel to Interstate 44, just after another tornado had passed over the airport in Chickasha.

On the evening of June 8, 1966, a severe thunderstorm < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 20 miles ( 32 km )</ span > southwest of town generated a tornado that headed straight towards Topeka.

They holed up in Rembrandt's car until a deadly tornado headed their way.

In March 2009 was played in a charity match The Rose Garden where he raised 24, 000 euros for the benefit of those affected by the tornado of Málaga between the city's football club and a team of former players, active or retired, called " Legends Malagua " and headed by former coach Joaquín Peiró.