The first tornado emergency was issued nearly 25 years ago on May 3rd, 1999 by the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma during a significantly destructive tornado outbreak.
Likewise, the May 3rd '99 Bridge Creek-Moore Tornado recorded the strongest and highest winds in history. The winds peaked at ...
On May 3 1999 an F5 tornado broke records with wind speeds reaching 318 mph and left over a billion dollars of damage in its wake Jeff Piotrowski followed the storm from its initiation west of ...