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While the 2025 tornado season has had more March tornado reports with 235, that total is considered preliminary until fi
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While the 2024 tornado season has had more May tornado reports with 571, that total is considered preliminary until fina
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Although the tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023 had 146 tornadoes in total, only 115 occurred on March 31.
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The Fujita scale historically only ever assigned final ratings from F0 through F5, however, did account for ratings up t
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The exact statement, released in June 2024, from the University of Illinois’ Doppler on Wheels team regarding this wind
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In the 2024 university of Illinois publication, no exact windspeed was specified, only a range between 309 and 318. Ther
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The paper states that the storm was a single tornado; later analysis suggests it was most likely a tornado family that t
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Gregorian calendar date. 25 May in the Julian calendar, and the 29th day of the fourth month, Jishō 4 in the old Japanes
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