The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most powerful type of twister.
The difference between you being in the path of this twister and a few blocks away, you being okay, is a very slim, slim margin.
The tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma on Monday reminded many of a devastating twister outbreak that ripped through the Great Plains in May of 1999, flattening entire neighborhoods and killing at least 44 people, including three children.
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Monday's powerful tornado loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region with 300 mph winds in May 1999.
Meteorologists had warned about particularly nasty weather Friday but said the storm's fury didn't match that of a deadly twister that struck suburban Moore last week.
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Homes and businesses throughout the city were destroyed, officials said, bringing back memories of a 1947 twister that wiped out city blocks in Woodward and killed more than 100.
Among the most dramatic images of the day were from a freight truck depot on the south side of Dallas, where one twister flung semitrailers high in the air and hundreds of feet from their parking spots.
At this year's 10th anniversary celebration, you can take a tour of the shed where Bredo rests, compete in the coffin race with six pallbearer friends through an obstacle course, plunge into the polar pool and try a round of Twicester (frozen Twister).
At least nine people were killed in Friday's storms, including a mother and her baby sucked out of their car as a deadly twister tore its way along a packed Interstate 40 near the town of El Reno, about 30 miles from Oklahoma City.
As it churned through the community, the twister scattered shards of wood, awnings and glass all over the streets.
The twister was part of a severe storm system that ripped through the South and Midwest that day, killing at least 327 people.
Many amateur storm chasers are looking to capture heart-pounding video of a massive, dangerous twister and cash in by selling the footage to television stations or documentary filmmakers.
She had ridden out the twister in the basement of her landlord's office nearby.
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One person died when an apparent twister hit the state of Georgia, overturning cars on a motorway.
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In 1996, the film "Twister" popularized the notion of chasing storms to immerse oneself in a tornado's circulation.
It also came almost exactly two years after an enormous twister ripped through the city of Joplin, Mo.
The agency also confirmed a twister in the northwestern Illinois county of Carroll.
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The twister left the school a pile of rubble.
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Mr. Grzych and others said that while the Moore twister was more powerful, the characteristics of the El Reno tornado made it less predictable and more dangerous for chasers.
Throughout the museum there are touches that give a good sense of the 1960s, such as popular board games like Twister and televisions showing vintage commercials.
Then, the deck is reshuffled using the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm with the random numbers generated from the Mersenne twister algorithm that was seeded with a hash of the combined server seed and client seed.
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Her students were among the 24 people killed by the twister -- an EF5, the strongest category of tornado.
Monday's storm brought to mind the devastating twister outbreak that ripped through the Great Plains in May of 1999, killing at least 44 people.
But with the powerful devastation from the May 20 twister that killed 24 and pummeled the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore still etched in their minds, many Oklahomans instead opted to flee Friday night when a violent tornado developed and headed toward the state's capital city.
That twister tracked a path that included Moore, a southern suburb of more than 50, 000 people.
In the southwestern Iowa town of Thurman, near the Nebraska border, residents spent Sunday digging out from a twister that hit about 6:45 p.m.
Residents of Moore had 36 minutes from the time the National Weather Service issued its warning until the time the twister entered the city.
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