May 20 in weather history

Moore tornado

May 20, 2013 · United States

The 2013 Moore tornado was a large and extremely violent EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013, with peak winds estimated at 200–210 mph (320–340 km/h), killing 24 people and injuring 212 others. The tornado was part of a larger outbreak from a slow-moving…

Where it happened

United States, as Wikidata places it.

  • Tornadoes

The record

Date
May 20, 2013
Kind
Tornado
Where
United States
Country
United States
Deaths
24
Injured
387

What happened

The 2013 Moore tornado was a large and extremely violent EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013, with peak winds estimated at 200–210 mph (320–340 km/h), killing 24 people and injuring 212 others. The tornado was part of a larger outbreak from a slow-moving weather system that had produced several other tornadoes across the Great Plains over the previous two days, including five that had struck portions of Central Oklahoma the day prior on May 19.

From Wikipedia, “2013 Moore tornado”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sources

Wikidata Q13360358 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “2013 Moore tornado”, CC BY-SA 4.0.