This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by The Weather Network that features stories about people, communities, and events and how weather impacted them. On Monday, May 20, , at p. The tornado directly killed 24 people and injured It also caused an additional two indirect deaths. Moore, Oklahoma. Relief workers found an American flag lying on the ground and propped it up. The tornado was goliath. It started near Newcastle and stayed on the ground for 37 minutes, travelling 27 km.
At its peak, the tornado was 1. Courtesy of TWN. At around p. Not even an hour later, a thunderstorm developed. The thunderstorm quickly intensified and started to form supercell characteristics. In total, 24 lives were lost in Oklahoma, with an additional two deaths related to the storm system. At least people were injured, with 1, homes completely destroyed.
Actions Facebook Tweet Email. Remembering the Moore Oklahoma Tornado The deadliest and most destructive tornado of By: Patrick Pete. Copyright Scripps Media, Inc. Other homes-in-progress dot the subdivision, where new houses stand surrounded by threadbare lots. One bald slab sports a rusty storm cellar door -- apparently the only thing the tornado left standing there.
The terror was too much for some residents, and they aren't rebuilding, because they're not coming back. Last year's cyclone injured of them, and Moore is as prime target for twisters, right in the middle of "tornado alley.
Some of them may have recalled the May tornado that killed dozens in Moore. Todd Lamb has said it had the strongest wind speeds of any twister in history.
It was part of a spate of dozens of twisters in tornado alley in just a few days that year. Or they may remember the tornado that was less deadly but ripped up buildings. Or fright may still be in their bones from the tornado that ripped apart another Oklahoma City outlier last year one day before death visited Moore from above. And trauma might still be fresh on their minds from the perhaps even bigger monster that missed Moore by a hair 11 days after its ravishing -- the so-called El Reno tornado on May 31, , that razed mostly sparsely populated countryside.
El Reno was " one of the most powerful tornadoes sampled by mobile radar and also the widest known tornado on record ," the National Weather Service said. It seems that to live in Moore is to play cat and mouse with deadly storms with heart-rending consequences. Seven of the nine children killed in last year's tornado died when it flattened one single school building.
More than 70 students and teachers hunkered down at Plaza Towers Elementary, when the torquing winds pushed walls and ceilings down on top of them.
Plaza Towers had no storm shelter a year ago. That will change when the school is rebuilt. Commemorations and a new start.
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