Date of tornado outbreak: | May 13th, 2019 |
Duration1: | 3 hours, 27 minutes |
Maximum rated tornado2: | F7 tornado |
Tornadoes caused: | 10 |
Damages: | $125 billion (2019 USD) |
Fatalities: | 8,166 |
Areas affected: | |
1Time from first tornado to last tornado |
Event[]
Imagine if this actually happened.
Storm similarities[]
This storm in some ways was similar to the storm that caused the night of the twisters in 1980. Mainly because of it being anti-cyclonic is nature. There were cyclonic and anti-cyclonic tornadoes produced by this storm.
Tornado count[]
Confirmed Total |
Confirmed F0 |
Confirmed F1 |
Confirmed F2 |
Confirmed F3 |
Confirmed F4 |
Confirmed F5 |
Confirmed F6 |
Confirmed F7 |
10 | 2 | 2 (1 anti-cyclonic) | 1 | 2 (1 anti-cyclonic) | 1 (1 anti-cyclonic) | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Tornadoes[]
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List of confirmed tornadoes - May 13th, 2019 | ||||||
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Nebraska | ||||||
storm colour|storm} | S of Grand Island | 0337 | 3.5 miles | 0 deaths - A skinny funnel briefly formed and went a short distance without any damage caused. | ||
{storm colour|cat3} | SSW of Aurora | 0359 | 19.5 miles | 4 deaths - A mile wide tornado destroyed several farms. | ||
{storm colour|cat1} | NE of Wilber | 0411 | 9.5 miles | 0 deaths - A tornado tore through a park. | ||
{storm colour|cat3} | SW of Grand Island | 0428 | 20.5 miles | 7 deaths - An anti-cyclonic cone tornado tore apart a neighborhood. | ||
{storm colour|cat4} | St. Paul | 0450 | 29.5 miles | 90 deaths - An anti-cyclonic half mile wide tornado devastated St. Paul. | ||
{storm colour|cat1} | SSE of Aurora | 0459 | 8.7 miles | 1 death - An anti-cyclonic tornado tore apart a farm-steed, one of the farmers was killed when a tractor was dropped on a propane tank while the farmer was filling it. | ||
{storm colour|cat5} | NW of Aurora | 0524 | 26.5 miles | 9 deaths - A skinny yet powerful rope tornado tore down a radio station, completely flattened a wal-mart and devastated part of a neighborhood.
Shopping carts were found as far as 4 miles away from where they used to be. For a tornado this small, its winds were recorded as high as 309 mph. | ||
{storm colour|cat2} | Nebraska City | 0539 | 15.5 miles | 5 deaths - A half mile wide tornado destroyed several farms. | ||
{storm colour|cat7} | SW of Nebraska City | 0559 | 141.5 miles | 8,000 deaths - A massive mile and a half wide tornado first started near Altus, Oklahoma and dissipated a few miles north or Evansville, Indiana.
This tornado flattened entire cities, airports, strip-malls, neighborhoods and shopping centers. This tornado was strong enough to even Obliterate brick and concrete houses. Winds with this tornado topped 415 mph. | ||
{storm colour|cat5} | Nebraska City | 0639 | 51.5 miles | 50 deaths - A half mile wide tornado destroyed Nebraska city. | ||
storm colour|storm} | Omaha | 0641 | 2.3 miles | 0 deaths - A compact tornado blew the roof tiles off some roofs in Omaha. |