The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado [a] that occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma during the early evening hours of Friday, May 31, 2013. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes ...

During the evening hours of May 24, 2011, a large, long-tracked and exceptionally intense EF5 tornado, commonly known as the El Reno–Piedmont tornado[2] or the El Reno EF5, impacted areas near or within the communities of El Reno, Piedmont, and Guthrie, killing nine people and injuring 181 others.

Aug 3, 2022 · The 2013 El Reno Tornado had measured wind speeds of 296 mph which is well into the EF-5 scale, but was rated only as a EF-3 because the highest wind speeds happened in open fields with no structures.

Jun 5, 2013 · Meteorologists updated the estimate Tuesday, determining it was an EF5, the strongest classification for a tornado. It was 2.6 miles wide at its widest point and tracked across 16.2 miles. The storm had wind speeds greater than 295 mph.

The tornado side-swiped the El Reno Oklahoma Mesonet station (located 5 miles west of El Reno) along its path, and the site measured wind gusts of 131 and 151 mph. From this location, the tornado continued northeast, narrowly missing the town of Piedmont.

On May 31, 2013, an intense, long-track tornado formed southwest of El Reno. This exceptionally wide tornado took a complex path, rapidly changing in both speed and direction. The tornado spared El Reno and its airport from a direct hit, tracking just south of those locations.

The drought began on May 20, 2013, following the dissipation of the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma EF5 tornado. [11] [12] Several tornadoes since the Moore EF5 have reached the 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) wind speeds needed for a tornado to be classified as an EF5, including the 2013 El Reno EF3 tornado and 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale EF4 tornado, with wind speeds measured in excess of 295 miles per hour ...

Sep 5, 2013 · The tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31, 2013 has been reclassified from an EF-5 to a EF-3 tornado. Why? Learn more on EarthSky.

With a width of 2.6 miles, and wind speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour, this tornado quickly became one for the record books.

This is a map and list of tornadoes since 1950 which the National Weather Service has rated F5 (before 2007) or EF5 (equivalent, 2007 onward, the most intense damage category on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita damage scales. The tornadoes are numbered in the order they happened since 1950; so the numbers run from the bottom up.