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

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

Audubon writes that while on horseback he believed the distant rumbling to be that of a tornado, “ but the animal knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead of going faster, so nearly stopped that I remarked he placed one foot after another on the ground with as much precaution as if walking on a smooth piece of ice.

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 ).

The most recent EF5 tornado in the state to cause damage and casualties was the 2011 Joplin tornado, which destroyed roughly 1 / 3 of the city of Joplin.

The tornado was the first EF5 to hit the state since 1957.

Velocities of 160 km / h ( 100 mph ) have been reported in southern locations, and the town of Encarnación was once leveled by a tornado.

The current tower is at least the second Eiffel Tower replica built in Paris ; the first was constructed of wood and later destroyed by a tornado.

On April 2, 1982, Paris was hit by an F4 tornado that destroyed more than 1, 500 homes, left ten people dead, 170 injured and 3, 000 homeless.

The damage toll from this tornado was estimated at 50 million USD in 1982.

The town was said to have appeared to have been swept up by a tornado on Earth, and brought to Mars.

One tornado was reported to have a damage path only 7 feet ( 2 m ) long.

A tornado that affected Hallam, Nebraska on May 22, 2004, was up to wide at the ground.

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

The EF Scale was designed so that a tornado rated on the Fujita scale would receive the same numerical rating, and was implemented starting in the United States in 2007.

Before the 1950s, the only method of detecting a tornado was by someone seeing it on the ground.

The most record-breaking tornado in recorded history was the Tri-State Tornado, which roared through parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925.

The tornado was also the second costliest tornado in history at the time, but in the years since has been surpassed by several others if population changes over time are not considered.

The deadliest tornado in world history was the Daultipur-Salturia Tornado in Bangladesh on April 26, 1989, which killed approximately 1300 people.

The most extensive tornado outbreak on record was the Super Outbreak, which affected a large area of the central United States and extreme southern Ontario in Canada on April 3 and 4, 1974.

* 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.

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

* 1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U. S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.

It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.

It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U. S.

It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.

* 2011 – An EF5 Tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest tornado in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950.

* 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U. S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day.

* May 27 – The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U. S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring $ 2. 9 billion ( 1997 USD ) in normalized damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1, 000 people.

* April 5 – A tornado hits Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 and injuring over 700 ( the 4th deadliest tornado in U. S. history ).

203 die and 1, 600 are injured in the 5th deadliest tornado in U. S. history.

It is the second deadliest tornado in U. S. history.

* August 9 – The Wallingford Tornado of 1878, the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, destroys the town of Wallingford, killing 34 people and injuring 70 or more.

* September 27 – 79 are killed and 550 are injured in the East St. Louis Tornado, the 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U. S. history.

In addition, it is the deadliest single tornado in United States history ( 695 dead ).

The 2011 Joplin tornado ranked as the seventh deadliest in America's history.

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

* 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.

* 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.

The county is 1. 4 times below the U. S. average in historical area-adjusted tornado activity.

Tornadoes are a constant danger during the spring, summer and fall ; the city's tornado activity is slightly below the Alabama state average, but 79 % above the U. S. average.

This area was damaged by an F5 tornado on April 8, 1998, and again by an EF4 tornado on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 that killed 6 people during the multi-state Southern U. S. April 2011 tornado outbreak-the same massive tornado that obliterated parts of Tuscaloosa.

The City was damaged by a tornado on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 during the multi-state Southern U. S. April 2011 tornado outbreak-the same powerful EF4 tornado that obliterated parts of Tuscaloosa and the western suburbs of Birmingham.

This tornado was part of the Super Outbreak of 148 tornadoes that hit 13 U. S. states and one Canadian province.