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An F5 or EF5 tornado, the strongest category, rips buildings off their foundations and can deform large skyscrapers.
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F5 and EF5
* List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
At one point a University of Oklahoma chase team used a portable doppler weather radar to measure a windspeed of 257-268 mph in the funnel ( near the F5 threshold, but qualifying for EF5 windspeed ).
* List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
* List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
Such warnings have been issued for the 1999 F5 Moore, Oklahoma tornado, the 2007 EF5 Greensburg, Kansas tornado, and the 2011 EF4 Tuscaloosa, Alabama tornado.
F5 and tornado
Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado ( see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak ).
* 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.
* 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.
* 1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an " F5 " on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US $ 100 million in damages.
Canada's first reported Fujita Scale F5 tornado approaching Elie, Manitoba | Elie
In 2007, on 22 and 23 June, numerous tornadoes touched down, the largest of which was an F5 Tornado that devastated parts of Elie ( the strongest officially recorded tornado in Canada ).
* 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.
* 1955 – In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273.
* 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
* 1970 – The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $ 250 million in damage.
* June 8 – A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $ 25, 000, 000 in damage.
* August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado ( F5 on the Fujita scale ) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people ( the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area ).
** Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an " F5 " on the Fujita Scale, the first to exceed US $ 100 million in damages.
* August 21 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
** Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 ; 28 are killed.
* May 11 – The Waco tornado outbreak: A F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas, killing 114.
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.
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.
F5 and strongest
The May 3, 1999 tornado that hit Moore was rated an F5 on the Fujita scale, and was one of the strongest and most destructive tornadoes in history.
F5 and category
The error manifests itself to an increasing degree as the category increases, especially in the range of F3 through F5.
F5 and buildings
On April 12, 1927, the town was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town.
On April 27, 2011, an F5 tornado struck northeastern Tuscaloosa County and traveled across the river into western Jefferson County where it destroyed many buildings in Pleasant Grove and killed thirty-two people in its path.
Homes and other buildings along the tornado's path were completely obliterated, and the National Weather Service Topeka forecast office years later rated this tornado as an F5 on the Fujita scale.
F5 and off
When off, new behaviour is used: F5 means " open ", F10 means " spell " etc.
F5 and their
After Bill and Jo rescue Meg from her collapsing house, the scientists at NSSL report that an even stronger storm, a monstrous F5, is forming 25 miles south of their position.
They still owe F5 employees money, but will never be liable to pay since they declared bankruptcy ( after they told their employees that they would be paid ).
This type of variables includes subgiant or main sequence stars of spectral classes F5 – A0, having masses between 1. 5 – 2. 5 solar masses and nearing the end of their core hydrogen fusion lifetime.
F5 and can
However, extreme CAPE, by modulating the updraft ( and downdraft ), can allow for exceptional events, such as the deadly F5 tornadoes that hit Plainfield, Illinois on August 28, 1990 and Jarrell, Texas on May 27, 1997 on days which weren't readily apparent as conducive to large tornadoes.
F5 and large
On March 13, 1990, a large portion of the town was damaged by an F5 tornado during a tornado outbreak.
Most of the damage and all the deaths are still blamed on one large F5 tornado, known as the Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornado, that traveled nearly 125 miles from Texas to Oklahoma.
Not only did it produce an exceptional number of tornadoes, but it was also an inordinately intense outbreak producing dozens of large, long-track tornadoes, including 6 F5 and 24 F4 tornadoes.
It is also the second most recent F5 tornado to have struck a central business district of a large or mid-sized city, only to the 2011 Joplin Tornado.
F5 and .
Examples: F5 always copies file ( s ) from the active to the inactive panel, while F6 moves the file.
Some SLRs offered removable pentaprisms with optional viewfinder capabilities, such as the waist-level finder, the interchangeable sports finders used on the Canon F1 and F1n ; the Nikon F, F2, F3, F4 and F5 ; and the Pentax LX.
File: Nikon F5. jpg | Nikon F5 professional SLR, 1996
It was likely an F5, though tornadoes were not ranked on any scale in that era.
This outbreak, which saw 148 tornadoes develop in 18 hours, included six of F5 intensity and twenty-four that peaked at F4 strength.
For the F3 bar that usually forms the lowest note on a vibraphone, there would be F3 as the fundamental, F5 as the first overtone and A6 as the second overtone.
Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by nine strong tornadoes, eight ( E )- F4's and one F5.
Their spectral type is usually between A0 and F5.
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