The tornado remained at F3 strength for about a mile, before weakening to a F1 as it exited the east side of town.

This tornado did considerable damage to the Camp Atterbury facility.

The rural community of Camp Creek southeast of Greeneville was badly affected by an EF-3 tornado in the outbreak on the night of April 27 – 28, 2011.

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.

This tornado crossed Interstate 90 between mile markers 173 and 174 west of Austin, tracked just southeast of Oakland, MN and continued toward the community of Lansing, MN before lifting about 4 miles north of Austin.

The tornado would lift as it crossed Edgewood Drive, but snapped the tops of some nearby trees as it lifted and moved on.

The tornado crossed over New York Route 32 and went past the Friar Tuck Inn, causing two mobile homes to flip over.

An F-3 tornado crossed the property at approximately 4: 00 p. m. CDT on April 16, 1998, missing the house and gravesite, but toppling many trees that had reportedly been planted by Jackson himself nearly 200 years earlier.

The continuous ≥ 219 mile (≥ 352 km ) track left by the tornado was the longest ever recorded in the world: the tornado crossed from southeastern Missouri, through Southern Illinois, then into southwestern Indiana.

The tornado crossed the Mississippi River into southern Illinois, hitting the town of Gorham, at 2: 30 p. m., essentially obliterating the entire town, killing 34.

The tornado lifted as it crossed the E. C.

The tornado then crossed the Canadian River, passing into far southern Oklahoma City.

The tornado crossed Route 59 ( Division Street ) and ripped into St. Mary Immaculate Church and school, claiming an additional 3 lives, including the principal of the school, a music teacher, and the son of the cook at the rectory.

This tornado crossed the southern end of the runways, moving North-East, missing a line of B-1B bombers and maintenance hangars.

DOW measurements suggest that the tornado may have a multiple vortex structure as it crossed Spencer.

The first tornado to strike Grand Island crossed its own path several times.

A tornado hit the drive-in theater and nearly crossed to Quincy but receded once it hit the bluffs, the drive in is no longer in use today.

The tornado crossed into Madison County around 5: 50 p. m. on Love Branch Road, just north of the Yarborough Road intersection.

At 5: 54 p. m., the Madison County Sheriff's Department confirmed the tornado had crossed Old Railroad Bed Road and Alabama Highway 53.

Shortly after 6: 00 p. m., the tornado crossed U. S. Highway 231 / 431 at Steger Curve-around Brier Fork bridge.

When the tornado crossed the river and hit East Saint Louis, Illinois, it was smaller but more intense.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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.

In 2010, a small EF-1 tornado touched down south of US 411.

The tornado, which the National Weather Service indicates was on the ground for about a half hour, is estimated to have caused in excess of US $ 40 million in damages.

In 2001, Pixar crews visited to research US 66 for the animated film Cars, at a time when the town economy was still attempting to recover from the 1999 tornado, and the Rock Café was undergoing historic restoration.

The EF2 tornado caused structural damage to buildings on the north side of the city from US 218 near 4th Street Northwest to the golf country club.

The April 25 – 28, 2011 tornado outbreak is the most prolific tornado outbreak in US history.

However, full basements are commonplace in new houses in the US Midwest and other areas subject to tornado activity or requiring foundations below the frost line.

In the US, they are called a " tornado slide ".

A number of people tried to flee as the tornado moved along US Highways 281 and 287.

During the Atlanta tornado outbreak in March 2008, CNN / US and CNNI simulcasted coverage after Anderson Cooper 360 ° ended.

This may appear to be true at first from looking at tornado fatality statistics: from 2000 – 2008, 539 people were killed by tornadoes in the US, with more than half ( 282 ) of those deaths in mobile homes.

Deadly tornadoes are no exception: from 2000 to 2008, 135 of the 539 US tornado deaths occurred during meteorological winter ( December through February ).

Tom Grazulis has stated that the week of May 24 – 28 was " perhaps the most violent single week of tornado activity in US history ".

* 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

* 2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008.

Furthermore, DeKalb County saw the highest death toll in Alabama during a massive tornadic system in late April 2011 April 25 – 28, 2011 tornado outbreak, with 31 deaths reported in the county.

NewsBlues reported the cancellation of the movie block on May 31, 2010 ; the removal of the block was due in part to criticism of showing movies, especially since some of the films were not directly tied to weather, as well as a snafu that occurred during a tornado outbreak in April 2010 that led a scheduled movie to be aired instead of wall-to-wall severe weather coverage.

On March 31, the National Weather Service confirmed that it was an EF1 tornado.

On 4 / 11 / 1965, a category 4 tornado 17. 0 miles away from the city center killed 31 people and injured 252 people.

Brandenburg was devastated by an F5 tornado during the Super Outbreak of April 3, 1974 ; 31 were killed in the city.

On the morning hours of December 31, 2010, an EF3 tornado ripped through the army base town.

Around noon on December 31, 2010, an EF3 tornado struck Sunset Hills, destroying several businesses and homes, killing one person, and injuring others in a three-to four-block area around Lindbergh Boulevard.

At 7: 00 p. m. on May 31, 1985, Masury was struck by an F-5 tornado as it passed through Hubbard into Wheatland, Pennsylvania.

On May 31, 1985, an F5 tornado struck the city as part of The 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak, a deadly series of tornadoes that swept through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, Canada.

On May 31, 1985, the city of Niles was struck by an F5 tornado that had its origins just west of Newton Falls, where it destroyed much of that town.

A tornado hit the town on March 12, 2006, destroying 36 homes and damaging 31 other.

On May 31, 1985, an F3 tornado hit just north of the city as it went across northern portions of Beaver County, as part of the 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak.

On May 31, 1985, the township was hit by an F3 tornado as part of the 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak, destroying a gas station, drive-in theater, meat market, and several homes.

On May 31, 1998 an F3 tornado damaged or destroyed many businesses and homes in the borough.

On May 31, 1998 a tornado touched down in Lyons causing roughly $ 1, 400, 000 worth of damage to local homes and properties.

On May 31, 1985 Hermitage was struck by an F5 tornado that killed 18 people and injured 310.

Wheatland suffered extensive damage on May 31, 1985, when an F5 tornado struck the area.

On July 31, 2009, a line of heavy thunderstorms with weak rotation spawned an EF1 tornado, which touched down with wind speeds between 95 and 105 miles per hour.