Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Top 10 US Tornadoes...

Again this is just my personal opinion so feel free to comment, but keeping with my top 10's this week, I'm going to do the top 10 US tornadoes... This is extremely hard and VERY subjective but I'll give it my best... The only way to do this is to base it on pure destruction... Unfortunately that's the only way to ranks these beast of nature...

1) March 18th, 1925 Tri State Tornado
2) April 3rd, 1974 Xenia, OH (Super Outbreak)
3) April 3rd, 1974 Guin, AL (Super Outbreak)
4) May 3rd, 1999 Moore, OK
5) April 5th, 1936 Tupelo, MS
6) May 27th 1896 (East) St. Louis, MO
7) May 27th, 1997 Jarrell, TX
8) May 4th, 2007 Greensburg, KS
9) May 6th, 1840 Natchez, MS
10) April 9th, 1947 Woodward, OK

*April 26th, 1991 Andover, KS
*April 8th, 1998 Pleasant Grove, AL
*April 3rd, 1964 Wichita Falls, TX
*December 5th, 1953 Vicksburg, MS
*April 3rd, 1974 Brandenburg, KY (Super Outbreak)
*May 11th, 1953 Waco, TX
*May 11th, 1970 Lubbock, TX
*April 5th, 1936 Gainesville, GA
*June 8th, 1966 Topeka, KS
*March 3rd, 1966 Jackson, MS (Candlestick Park)

* Denotes honorable mention... Honestly I could double, triple, or even quadruple this honorable mention section... There are just too many recorded F5's in US history... Again if you have a few that you think should have made the list then feel free to comment...

1 comment:

Justyn Jackson said...

Yeah, very hard to rank tornadoes, but your list looks good. The only honorable mention I might add would be the Flint, MI tornado. I think it was in the 50s, but I've heard it was pretty bad. Good job!