2017 Oklahoma City tornado

The 2017 Oklahoma City tornado was a devastating EF5 event that was held responsible for at least 51 deaths and 344 injuries. The tornado also set a new record for the most damaging tornado on record, doing $3.4 billion in damages. The tornado was down for 32 minutes, in which time it managed to sweep away several hundred well built, anchored homes, leaving behind damaged foundations in its wake.

Synopsis
The supercell that spawned the tornado was responsible for another strong tornado an hour beforehand over northern Texas. By 1330 CDT, the supercell had developed a new area of rotation, which began to hook over as it intensified.

After reports of a very low, rapidly rotating wall cloud at 1355 CDT, the NWS in Norman issued a Particularly Dangerous Situation tornado warning, indicating that a strong rotation was on radar, and that a dangerous tornado would likely touch down within 30 minutes.

At 1423 CDT, a large tornado touched down on the edges of the city, prompting the issuance of a tornado emergency as it began to cause severe damage to numerous well built structures along its path, reaching approximately 1 mile wide by this point. Continuing to move into the city, the tornado claimed several lives as it demolished an apartment complex, before partially sweeping it away as well. In this area, very deep scouring was noted, along with several heavy vehicles that were thrown about a mile away. Trees were either shredded or completely debarked at this location as well.

From here, the tornado moved towards the center of the city, but luckily missed, before heading out again whilst producing damage rated from EF1 to EF3. The tornado was last noted at 1455 CDT whilst doing heavy tree and roof damages, later rated EF1 at this location.