It's not every day you see one of the most violent tornadoes in recent history and a historic flash flood happen just over ...

The most EF5/F5 tornadoes in a single year were in 1974 when the April 3 super outbreak spawned seven in a 24-hour period. Each red triangle is the location of a tornado that caused EF5 or F5 damage.

Apr. 1—Nearly 50 years later, the Greene County Archives has collected and filmed new video oral histories of those who lived through the 1974 F5 tornado — people whose ages ranged from 6 ...

There was also an F5 tornado in the Hudsonville-Standale area on April 3, 1956, which killed 18 people. Here's a youtube video of the tornado.

She says the strongest winds officially recorded in a tornado were 302 mph, during an F5 tornado that struck Bridge Creek and Moore, Oklahoma on May 3, 1999. Sign up for our Newsletters.

Now, imagine that happening not just on the same day, but in the same state. On May 8, 1965, 60 years ago today, an F5 tornado tore through parts of southern South Dakota.

This town was the site of a devastating F5 tornado back on May 27, 1997. That tornado 25 years ago grew more than half a mile wide and killed more than two-dozen people along its path.

On May 25, 1955, a powerful F5 tornado, with winds estimated at 300 miles per hour, roared through the farming community of Udall, Kan., destroying all but a handful of buildings. When it was over ...

In the history of Tennessee, only four times has any tornado ever been rated F5. Once in 1952, twice in 1974, and finally in 1998. But some meteorologists have successfully argued that only the ...