 Significant Tornado Events: 2000-Present
March 28, 2000 - successive F3 tornadoes hit Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas, again proving that tornadoes can and do hit cities. Although no skyscrapers were toppled, one such building had so many windows broken and so much damage done inside that there was discussion of imploding and rebuilding it as a cheaper option than making repairs.
April 28, 2002 - an F4 tornado struck LaPlata, MD, about 20 miles south of Washington, DC and one of the strongest tornadoes on record for the Mid-Atlantic region, causing 3 deaths. Ironically, Maryland's deadliest tornado also struck LaPlata, on November 9, 1926.
May 3-11, 2003 - the largest extended outbreak of tornadoes on record in the world, with significant numbers of tornadoes on each day, and a total of 340 tornadoes striking in 28 states. Parts of the Oklahoma City metro area were hit on successive days (May 8 and 9) with a F3 and F4 tornadoes, and some spots hit on May 3, 1999 again sustained tornado damage.
June 24, 2003 - an outbreak of tornadoes hit South Dakota and adjacent states, with 66 tornadoes in South Dakota marking their largest tornado outbreak on record. One of the tornadoes was an F4 at Manchester, where a researcher placed weather instruments in the path of the tornado. They registered a pressure drop of 100 mb, which is about 10% of typical atmospheric pressure at the Earth's surface.
May 22, 2004 - an F4 tornado carved a 2.5 mile-wide path across th small community of Hallam, Nebraska, one of the widest documented tornadoes ever in the United States. 95% of the buildings in the community were damaged or destroyed.
May 4, 2007 - an EF5 tornado up to 1.7 miles wide destroyed more than 90% of Greensburg, KS. This was the first top-rated tornado since May 3, 1999, and the first given the 5 rating using the new Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale implemented in February 2007.
June 22, 2007 - Canada experienced its first F5 tornado on record, at Elie in Manitoba Province.
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