The tornado that touched down near El Reno, Okla., last week has been upgraded to an EF-5, with winds near the surface of 296 mph, the National Weather Service in Norman said Tuesday. At 2.6 miles ...

IN ADDITION... THE WIDTH OF TORNADO WAS MEASURED BY THE MOBILE RADAR DATA TO BE 2.6 MILES AFTER THE TORNADO PASSED EAST OF US HIGHWAY 81 SOUTH OF EL RENO. THIS WIDTH IS THE WIDTH OF THE TORNADO ...

With its astonishing width, the El Reno tornado takes the record from the 2004 Hallam, Nebraska F4 tornado, which was estimated to have been 2.5 miles wide. How large is 2.6 miles, exactly?

The massive El Reno, Okla. twister reached an unthinkable maximum width of 2.6 miles. “This is the biggest ever,” Bluestein said. In Washington, D.C., a tornado that size would span from from ...

The National Weather Service upgraded the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado that hit late last week, killing 18 people, to an EF-5 tornado — the highest, most dangerous, rarest classification.

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The largest tornado in recorded history was Friday's May 31, 2013 EF-5 tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma ... 1968 had a damage path width between 2 and 3 miles (3.2 and 4.8 km) wide.

The tornado that struck El Reno, Okla., Friday "is officially the ... Sponsor Message "This tornado is double the width of the May 20 tornado in Moore, Okla.," reports Oklahoma City's KFOR TV.

Saturday marks three months since that deadly tornado ripped through El Reno. Now there are plenty ... uneven path reaching a width of 2.6 miles. "Some days it seems like it just happened ...

The tornado's width is was measured by a mobile radar unit as the storm passed south of El Reno near Highway 81 and only includes the tornado itself and not the winds surrounding the storm ...