User:EF5
| “ | They call F5 tornadoes the 'finger of god'; few have stared one in the face and survived. | ” |
Tornado outbreaks
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| EF2 | Kentucky | April 1, 2024 | 86 | 5 | 25 | Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3, 2024 | MDT | 
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Collaboration with Hurricane Clyde | ||
| EF3 | Texas | December 28, 2024 | 14 | 4 | 19 | Tornado outbreak of December 26–29, 2024 | MDT | 
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Collaboration with Departure– | ||
| EF4 | Arkansas, Mississippi | March 14, 2025 | 117 | 43 | 247+ | Tornado outbreak of March 13–16, 2025 | HIGH | 
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Started on March 7, largest March outbreak of all time. | ||
| EF3+ | Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee | May 18-20, 2025 | 24+ | 0+ | 4+ | Tornado outbreak of May 18–20, 2025 | MDT | 
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Collaboration with Departure– |
Individual tornadoes
[edit]| F#/EF# | State / Country | Date | Fatalities | Injuries | Article | GAN | DYK | Class |
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| F5–equiv. | Illinois | March 18, 1925 | 695 | 2,027 | 1925 Tri-State tornado | 
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| F4 | Paraguay | September 20, 1926 | 300+ | 500+ | 1926 Encarnación tornado |
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| IF5 | Italy | July 24, 1930 | 23 | 110 | 1930 Montello tornado |
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| F4 | Poland | July 20, 1931 | 6 | 100+ | 1931 Lublin tornado |
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| F5 | Texas | April 3, 1964 | 7 | 111 | 1964 Wichita Falls tornado |
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| F5 | Iowa | May 15, 1968 | 13 | 462 | 1968 Hansell-Charles City tornado |
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| F5 | Iowa | May 15, 1968 | 5 | 156 | 1968 Oelwein tornado |
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| F5 | Ohio | April 3, 1974 | 6 | 210 | 1974 Cincinnati tornado |
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| F5 | Kentucky | April 3, 1974 | 31 | 257 | 1974 Brandenburg tornado |
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| F5 | Alabama | April 3, 1974 | 28 | 267 | 1974 Tanner tornadoes#First tornado | 
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| F5 | Alabama | April 3, 1974 | 16 | 190 | 1974 Tanner tornadoes#Second tornado |
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| F5 | Alabama | April 3, 1974 | 28 | 272 | 1974 Guin tornado |
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| F1 | New York | November 16, 1989 | 10 | 18 | 1989 Coldenham tornado |
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| F5 | Kansas | April 26, 1991 | 17 | 225 | 1991 Andover tornado |
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| F5 | Texas | May 27, 1997 | 27 | 12 | Jarrell tornado |
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| F4 | Ohio | September 20, 2000 | 1 | 100 | 2000 Xenia tornado |
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| F4 | Kansas | April 21, 2001 | 1 | 28 | 2001 Hoisington tornado |
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| EF5 | Kansas | May 4, 2007 | 11 | 63 | Greensburg tornado |
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| EF4 | Oklahoma | May 10, 2008 | 21 | 350 | 2008 Picher–Neosho tornado |
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| EF2 | Wyoming | June 5, 2009 | 0 | 0 | 2009 Goshen County tornado |
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| EF4 | Minnesota | June 17, 2010 | 1 | 14 | 2010 Conger–Albert Lea tornado |
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| EF4 | Alabama | April 27, 2011 | 6 | 48 | 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado |
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| EF4 | Alabama | April 27, 2011 | 13 | 54 | 2011 Cordova–Blountsville tornado |
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| EF4 | Georgia | April 27, 2011 | 20+ | 335 | 2011 Ringgold–Apison tornado |
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| EF4 | Indiana | March 2, 2012 | 12 | Many | 2012 Southern Indiana tornado |
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| EF4 | Texas | May 15, 2013 | 6 | 54 | 2013 Granbury tornado |
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| EF4 | Nebraska | October 4, 2013 | 0 | 15 | 2013 Wayne tornado |
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| EF4 | Arkansas | April 27, 2014 | 16 | 193 | 2014 Mayflower–Vilonia tornado |
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| EF4 | Texas | December 26, 2015 | 10 | 468 | 2015 Garland tornado |
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| EF4 | Oklahoma | November 29, 2016 | 1 | 0 | 2016 Katie tornado |
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| EF3–equiv. | California | July 26, 2018 | 3 | 5 | 2018 Carr Fire tornado |
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| EF3 | Mississippi | February 23, 2019 | 1 | 19 | 2019 Columbus, Mississippi, tornado |
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| EF3 | California | March 3, 2020 | 5 | 220 | 2020 Nashville tornado |
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| EF3 | Arkansas | March 28, 2020 | 0 | 12 | 2020 Jonesboro tornado |
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| EF3 | Alabama | January 25, 2021 | 1 | 30 | 2021 Fultondale tornado |
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| EF3 | Kentucky | December 11, 2021 | 17 | 63 | 2021 Bowling Green tornadoes#Rockford–Bowling Green–Sunnyside–Cedar Spring, Kentucky |
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| EF2 | Kentucky | December 11, 2021 | 0 | 0 | 2021 Bowling Green tornadoes#Bowling Green, Kentucky |
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| EF4 | Iowa | March 5, 2022 | 6 | 5 | 2022 Winterset tornado |
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| EF3 | Kansas | April 29, 2022 | 0 | 3 | 2022 Andover tornado |
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| EF2 | Alabama | January 12, 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2023 Selma tornado |
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| EF3 | Indiana | March 31, 2023 | 3 | 8 | 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado |
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| EF3 | Virginia | March 31, 2023 | 0 | 0 | 2023 Virginia Beach tornado |
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| EF3 | Oklahoma | April 27, 2024 | 1 | 30 | 2024 Sulphur tornado |
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| EF4 | Oklahoma | May 6, 2024 | 2 | 55 | 2024 Barnsdall–Bartlesville tornado |
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Five scariest tornadoes
[edit]| F#/EF# | State | Images | Fatalities | Article? | Notes | ||
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| EF? | Kansas | From afar, up close, video | 0+ | 2025 Greensburg–Plevna tornado | Huge, violent wedge tornado. Pure nightmare fuel. | ||
| EF5 | Kansas | Storm chase, video | 12 | Greensburg tornado | Large tornado that impacted a town. | ||
| EF4 | Kentucky | Up close | 57 | 2021 Mayfield tornado | Huge, incredibly deadly tornado. | ||
| EF3 | Tennessee | From afar | 9 | 2023 Adamsville tornado | Large, nighttime tornado, widely forgotten. | ||
| EF3 | Texas | 0 | 2024 Port Arthur tornado | Huge rainwrapped tornado | |||
Ironic sayings
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- "Great, violent tornado impacting Ferguson, Kentucky and NWS Jackson is so understaffed that they didn't even PDS it. We'll see tomorrow how many lives were lost." - Me, while the deadliest tornado since 2021 was still on the ground
- "Mayfield though, that was an inexcusable misuse of the TOR-E." - The day before one of the worst warning misuses of all time caused by DOGE cuts happened in Somerset, Kentucky, where upward of 23 people were killed
- "Going straight to hell if this turns out to be a major outbreak." from @Departure–. Safe to say it was pretty major.