The Most Powerful Tornado Recorded on Earth

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For Oklahoma City and its surrounding suburbs, May 3, 1999 began like any other spring day. By the evening, a deadly tornado of unprecedented ferocity had wreaked havoc, claiming a total of 36 lives.

From the show Make It Out Alive: Oklahoma Tornado: http://bit.ly/2yHEERY

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35 Comments

  1. It’s misleading to describe any tornado as ‘the worst on earth.’ The best you can do is ‘before records began, which is to say, between 150 and 200 years ago.

  2. One of my earliest memories was of this storm. I lived in Edmond with my family, just above OKC. These things are absolutely beautiful and deadly all at the same time.

  3. Wait wait
    So your telling me that well over 300 mph winds is not strong? And 2.6 miles wide isnt enough to claim many lives?
    And around he same wind speed but smaller is more powerfull?

    The el rino tornado struck in a feild and just missed down town
    While the tornado seen here struck in the city
    They could do the same damage but they were just not in the same spot
    I believe that this AND the el rino tornado should both be the strongest tornado to occur

  4. My house was in the Bear's cage on SW 127th street but thankfully the tornado just missed my neighborhood. Feel so sorry for the people who were affected by the tornado.

  5. Ever want to see some of the most intense weather coverage, go watch KFORs coverage of this tornado. Search kfor coverage of may 99 tornado. I dont remember exactly , maybe its 40- 50 minutes into the video, and they have a stationary cam from the city shooting the tornado, and the amount of debris flying is something from a movie. Its absolutely incredible and horrifying. And the weathermans coverage is scary and heartbreaking. At one point, one of the meteorologists tells people just to get out of their cars and get in a ditch and pray to God. Its like nothing you will ever see again. Its somewhere past the halfway point of video. As it gets into the heart of Moore

  6. Ahh no it's not because before the 1940's we couldn't even read wind speed. So hiw can these tofu frerks hsvd a clue about what came before…try zero percent

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