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 ...

Likewise, the May 3rd '99 Bridge Creek-Moore Tornado recorded the strongest and highest winds in history. The winds peaked at ...

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.