![]() Overall, the tornado killed 158 people (with an additional eight indirect deaths) and injured some 1,150 others. The insurance payout was the highest in Missouri history, with the previous record of $2 billion being the hail storm of April 10, 2001. The damage-which included major facilities like one of Joplin's two hospitals as well as much of its basic infrastructure-amounted to a total of $2.8 billion, making the Joplin tornado the costliest single tornado in U.S. The tornado devastated a large portion of the city of Joplin, damaging nearly 8,000 buildings, and of those, destroying over 4,000. The tornado tracked eastward through Joplin, and then continued across Interstate 44 into rural portions of Jasper and Newton counties, weakening before it dissipated. Part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak, the EF5 tornado began just west of Joplin and intensified very quickly, reaching a maximum width of nearly one mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large and devastating multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011. Part of the tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 since 2008.View of the rain-wrapped tornado in Joplinġ58 direct (+8-9 indirect) The outbreak was the deadliest in the U.S. dollars, and there were 38 reported fatalities in all. The damages from the outbreak will exceed 2.1 billion U.S. The 30 tornadoes which were confirmed in North Carolina, where 22 of the fatalities were reported, was a state record. Over the three days, 177 tornadoes occurred across 16 states (Oklahoma to North Carolina), surpassing the April 1974 outbreak as the most active tornado outbreak on record. ![]() Behind the cold front, very cool Canadian air filtered into the central parts of the U.S., and the boundary between these two air masses was the trigger for the unprecedented tornado outbreak. Very warm, moist air was advected northward ahead of the associated cold front. The April 14 th–16 th tornado outbreak was spawned from a strong upper-level low pressure system moving through the Central Plains. The May 22 nd Joplin, Missouri tornado caused 3 billion dollars worth of damage and 158 fatalities, surpassing the previous records for damages and fatalities from a single tornado in the modern tornado record. The 199 tornadoes on April 27 th, was the most for any single day on record and the 316 fatalities on the same day was the most in the modern record for a 24-hour period. The tornado counts for the April 14 th–16 th and April 25 th–28 th outbreaks both surpassed the April 1974 Super Outbreak for number of tornadoes during a single outbreak. ![]() The extremely high tornado count during April was driven by two very large tornado outbreaks - the two largest tornado outbreaks on record. This is the most on record for any month, surpassing May 2003 when there were 550 tornadoes. The most active month of the year was April, when 748 tornadoes were confirmed. During the three month period, there 1,150 confirmed tornadoes across the country, the most on record for any three month period. The most active tornado period of the year was the spring season (March-May). ![]() The annual total number of fatalities from tornadoes was 551, the most in the 62-year period of record. This ties with 1974 as the most (E)F-5 tornadoes during a single year (Please note that NOAA switched form using the Fujita (F) scale to the Enhanced-Fujita (EF) scale in 2007). ![]() There were six EF-5 tornadoes confirmed during 2011, the strongest category on the Enhanced Fujita scale. This places 2011 as the second or third most active year on record for number of tornadoes since the modern record began in 1950, depending on the confirmation rate of the end-of-year tornado reports. As of mid-January 2012, the 2011 confirmed tornado count stood at 1,625, with 93 tornado reports still pending for November and December. This represents the most property damage from severe weather in a single year since record keeping began in 1980. dollars, and total damage from the outbreaks exceeding 28 billion U.S. During the time period, there were seven individual tornado and severe weather outbreaks with damages exceeding one billion U.S. spring and summer of 2011 will likely be remembered as one of the most destructive and deadly tornado seasons to ever impact the nation. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |