Super Outbreak of 2018

The tornado outbreak of April 30- May 3, 2018 consisted of the deadly and destructive Moore rated EF5 tornado, and Pilger rated EF4 tornado and two additional Pilger tornadoes, which were rated as EF3 and EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. In total, 8.9 billion in damages was done, people died, and more were injured.

Tulsa, Oklahoma
The first tornado of the outbreak touched down at 4:01 PM CDT just south of Tulsa. The only real damage the EF3 with maximum wind speeds of 165 mph did was badly damage the BOK Center before it dissipated at 5:03 pm leaving 1 dead and 17 people injured.

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Moore, Oklahoma
The first EF5 and one of the strongest tornadoes of the outbreak touched down just south of Moore at 4:37 PM CDT on April 30, 2018. The tornado tracked slowly into Moore and intensifying very quickly into an EF3. The tornado then tracked into the community of Autumn Oaks as a EF4. The tornado left catastrophic damage to the community. The tornado then tracked into the path of Moore High School. Moore High School was left with nothing after the tornado swept through it at EF5 strength with 235 mph winds. The tornado then tracked into more neighborhoods then as an EF3. Then, at 6:21 PM CDT, the tornado dissipated 6 miles north of Moore leaving 29 dead and 1,205 injured and over 15,000 people homeless.

Stanton-Pilger, Nebraska
Approximately 29 minutes after the Moore tornado touched down, the first of many Stanton-Pilger Nebraska tornadoes touched down at 5:06 PM CDT near Marshal. The tornado started off as an EF1 then intensified into an EF3 as in approached Woodland Park. Then, the tornado crossed Nebraska Highway 57 as it hit 2 cars, killing the combined 3 people inside of them. The EF3 then intensified into the high peak of an EF4. The highest wind speeds were recorded at 196 mph. The EF4 then entered one of the two major towns hit, Pilger. The tornado hit many houses and farms killing another person. The tornado then traveled approximately 14 miles until it hit Stanton County's county seat, Stanton. The EF4 damaged many houses and businesses until it dissipated as an EF0 at 6:49 PM CDT. Then, not long after the first tornado dissipated two more tornadoes touched down. The first tornado that was a EF3 weakened into an EF1, meanwhile, the second tornado strengthened into a aggressive and violent EF4. The second tornado dissipated and another tornado touched down as an EF2. The EF4 then strengthened into an aggressive EF5. The fourth tornado then strengthened into an EF4. The twin tornadoes then split up and the fourth reached EF5 status. The third tornado then entered the town of Madison at EF5 status with wind speeds up to 265 mph. The tornado then swept through the town and went back towards then town of Stanton but the town of Norfolk was in it's path. The fourth tornado of the Stanton-Pilger family and second EF5 went towards Pilger. The third tornado and first EF5 weakened to an EF2 then dissipated at 7:44 pm 16 miles east of Stanton. The fourth tornado then also dissipated at 7:57 pm 4 miles north of Madison. Then, more havoc was wreaked when a large tornado touched down at 9:03 PM CDT. The tornado quickly reached EF4 status at 9:19 PM CDT. The recorded wind speeds as an EF4 was up to 199 mph before it reached EF5 status 3 miles northeast of Pilger at 9:49 PM CDT. The tornado quickly reached EF4 status at 9:19 PM CDT. The recorded wind speed was up to 199 mph before it reached EF5 status at 9:49 PM CDT 3 miles northeast of Pilger. The EF5 then completely swept the Stanton County Courthouse away. The tornado then tracked 14 miles southwest back into the almost destroyed town of Stanton until it tracked a little over 22 miles into the alerted town of Battle Creek. The final tornado of the Stanton-Pilger tornado touched down as a satellite tornado. The final EF5 tornado of the family dissipated 5 miles west of Stanton right after its satellite tornado dissipated.

Hackleburg, Alabama
The first tornado of May and the second day of the outbreak touched down at 7:44 AM CDT. The tornado touched down 5 miles south of Phil Campbell. The then EF2 killed 2 people after destroying a mobile home until in intensified into its highest peak, an EF4 as it approached Hackleburg. The tornado destroyed 3,500 homes, injuring and killed 9 before dissipating 8 miles south of Hackleburg. The highest recorded wind speeds were 190 mph. The EF4 tornado left 11 people dead and 5,549 were left injured.

Clermont-Groveland-Four Corners, Florida
At 10:56 AM EST, many separate thunderstorms began producing funnel clouds. The strongest tornado was the Clermont EF5 tornado. The tornado first touched down at 11:05 AM EST. The tornado, an EF1 badly damaged many mobile homes 8 miles northest of Clermont before intensifying into an EF3 and causing back ups on the Florida Turnpike, Florida State Road 429 and Interstate 4. The tornado then moved towards Florida State Road 50 before hitting many houses, businesses, gas stations, stores, a nursing home, and badly damaging South Lake Hospital before moving south down US Route 27 and throwing three tractor trailers and a tractor 720 yards, killing 5. The now EF5 tornado then hit many neighborhoods like Tradds Landing, Sawgrass Bay, Sienna Ridge, Orange Tree, The Savannas, Weston Hills, Greater Groves, Eagle Ridge, Westchester, Ashton Chase, Cagan Crossings, Rain Tree, Sunrise Lakes, and Woodridge. The tornado reached wind speeds up to 303 mph when it hit Four Corners Upper School while they were in the middle of classes. Of the approximate 1,500 students at the school at least 750 died before the killer tornado killed another 1,500 on Interstate 4 and then dissipating at 1:37 PM EST. A satellite tornado then touched down with EF3 damage being recorded to Champions Gate apartments about 0.5 miles away from Four Corner Upper School. Then, another small tornado touched down and it was on the ground for only a couple of minutes before it dissipated with EF0 damage.

Dodge City, Kansas
The 2nd EF3 of May 1st touched down at 1:35 PM CDT as an EF1 25 miles south of Dodge City, Kansas. The tornado strengthened into an EF2 damaging businesses, mobile homes, and hospitals. The strongest recorded wind speeds were up to 155 mph according to KWCH just about 3 miles southwest outside of Dodge City. The tornado then weakened but back to an EF0 but then strengthened back to an EF3 before a small rope tornado touched down. The satellite tornado dissipated about 5 minutes after touching down. Meanwhile, the EF3 weakened back to an EF1. The EF1 then dissipated at 2:43 PM CDT after leaving 9 people injured, 3 critically.

Littleton, Colorado
At 1:57 PM UTC, a funnel cloud touched the ground 5 miles north of downtown Littleton, Colorado. The tornado intensified quickly into an EF3, the strongest it would get. The tornado then tracked west right into the path of Columbine High School. The wind speeds of 160 mph caused most of the roof of Columbine High School to get torn off. The library, cafeteria, and at least 25 classrooms were either badly damaged or destroyed. The tornado then tracked east back towards Littleton. The tornado then weakened to a EF1 until it intensified back to a EF3. The tornado then destroyed at least 25 mobile homes killing 19. The tornado then tracked 5 miles northeast back towards Columbine High School where the tornado dissipated 2 miles north of Columbine at 3:09 PM CDT. The EF3 left 19 dead, 43 injured, and 3,205 homes either destroyed or damaged.

Iona-Rigby, Idaho
The second EF4 tornado of May happened in Iona and Rigby Idaho. The tornado touched down at 3:40 PM UTC. The tornado strengthened to an EF3. The tornado then badly damaged about 200 homes and 56 mobile homes, killing 43. The tornado then intensified into an EF4 when it approached the town of Rigby. The now EF3 slowly went through Rigby, until the tornado went back up to EF4 strength. The now EF4 teared through Rigby High School leaving devastating damage. The EF4 weakened back down to an EF2 tornado about 6.5 miles outside of Iona. The now EF0 tornado dissipated about 2.3 miles from Iona at 5:19 PM UTC where the tornado left catastrophic damage to the town.

Abilene-Chapman, Kansas
The first of many tornadoes of the Abilene- Champan, Kansas tornado family touched down at 4:57 PM CDT. It quickly intensified to a EF3 tornado. It shredded the towns of Carlton and Hope. Then, it went right into the path of Chapman High School. The tornado then, not only left catastrophic damage to Chapman High School, it also almost swept the whole town of Chapman off the map. Then, the now EF3 tornado headed towards the town of Abilene. The EF3 strengthened back to an EF4 tornado when it hit Abilene. The huge EF4 got bigger in size when it hit 3 communities at once!

After leaving incredible damage, the EF4 was greeted by two other tornadoes, an EF4 and an EF3 that both left incredible damage. The EF3 dissipated, before another 2 EF3 tornadoes touched down. The first EF4 that touched down weakened to an EF1, while the other EF4 weakened to an EF3. After the first tornado dissipated at 6:04 PM CDT, the first two EF3's weakened to EF0's while the third EF3 dissipated at 6:16 PM CDT. The two EF0's both dissipated at 6:19 PM CDT 5 miles south of Abilene. At 6:31 PM CDT, another EF3 touched the ground 4 miles northeast of Woodbine. The tornado weakened into an EF2 then dissipated at 6:39 PM CDT. Then, another set of twin touched down at 6:46 PM CDT as EF2's. The first one weakened and dissipated while the second tornado grew to EF4 status. Another tornado touched down at 7:04 PM CDT as an EF4. The first tornado weakened to an EF2 while the second tornado intensified to an EF5. A second tornado touched down as an EF4. The EF5 tornado tracked 14.5 miles to Junction City where the 245 mph winds inside of the tornadoes destroyed 5 communties leaving 3 dead. After being on the ground for a little over an hour, the EF2 dissipated at 7:49 PM CDT. The EF5 weakened and dissipated at 8:23 PM CDT. At 8:53 PM, the last and deadliest tornado of the Abilene-Chapman tornado family touched down. It quickly grew to EF4 status until it reached EF5 strenghth. It completely destroyed the towns of Chapman, Abilene, Carlton,Hope, Manchester, and Enterprise before dissipating at 10:09 PM CDT. In total, the Abilene-Chapman tornado family left 697 dead, 12,821 injured, and 25,000 people homeless.

Jarrell, Texas
The first tornado in Texas of the oubreak happened in Jarell. The funnel cloud that produced the Jarrell tornado touched down at 6:23 PM CDT 12 miles north of Austin and traveled into Jarell as an EF2. But, the tornado quickly strengthened to an EF4. The tornado then reached EF5 strength. Quickly, the tornado destroyed houses, stores, and businesses near Jarrell. The tornado entered Jarrell with recorded wind speeds of up to 210 mph. The EF5 then left catastrophic damage to Jarrell and entered the neighborhood of Sonterra. The tornado destroyed over 150 homes and killed 34 people before dissipating 7 miles west of Jarrell at 7:48 PM CDT.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The fastest wind speed ever and in the tornado outbreak happened in the early morning hours of May 2. A supercell generated many thunderstorms that produced many, big, and violent tornadoes. The first and weakest tornado touched down at 4:31 AM CDT. The EF0 left minor damage to roofs and garages before dissipating at 4:46 AM CDT.

Two more tornadoes touched the ground at 5:09 AM CDT. The first twin, an EF2 intensified into an EF4 while the second tornado, also an EF2, intensified into and EF3. The EF4 quickly intensified into an EF5. The EF3 then also intensified into an EF5. The first twin crossed the destroyed town of Moore, which had catastrophic damage from an EF5 tornado 2 days before on April 30. The 2nd twin then headed towards the town of Bridge Creek. The 1st twin weakened and dissipated at 6:37 AM CDT after leaving behind 12 people dead and 547 people injured. The 2nd twin just dodged the town of Bridge Creek before dissipating at 6:56 AM CDT after the EF5 behemoth left 24 people dead and 1,235 people injured. The next tornado touched down near Norman at 7:17 AM CDT. The EF1 grew to EF3 strength. The EF3 then dissipated at 7:35 AM CDT leaving 8 dead after the EF3 completely destroyed 4 mobile homes. The next to last tornado in the Oklahoma CIty area touched down at 8:04 AM CDT near El Reno. The then EF0 rapidly intensified to an EF4. The 2.2 mile wide EF4 destroyed up to 25 mobile homes leaving 17 dead until dissipating at 9:12 AM CDT.

The biggest, strongest, and most violent tornado touched down at 9:23 AM CDT. The EF2 quickly intensified into an EF4 5 miles outside of downtown Oklahoma City. The EF4 rapidly grew more stronger and more violent into an EF5 with recorded wind speeds of up to 367 mph. The tornado completely destroyed 7 apartment buidings, killing 436. The tornado then tracked into Oklahoma City, killing another 650. The behemoth then badly damaged the Chesapeake Bay Energy Arena killing another 2. The tornado then tracked west near El Reno, near where the killer EF4 was tracking. The EF5 then destroyed another 300 mobile homes, killing 342. The tornado then weakened into an EF3, where the twister killed another 2 after a mobile home has completely destroyed. The EF3 then weakened into an EF0 where it minorly damaged houses. The EF0 dissipated at 11:48 AM CDT.

Anadarko, Oklahoma
The Anardarko tornado first touched down at 9:52 AM CDT. It quickly grew to EF3 status. The EF3 tornado badly damaged 15 mobile homes, killing 7. The EF3 moved into the town of Hydro before dissipating at 10:17 AM CDT.