Weather service: Moore, OK tornado rated EF5, 1.3 miles wide, path 17 miles long

The National Weather Service has completed its initial damage survey of the area near Moore, Oklahoma, where a deadly tornado struck yesterday. Its assessment pegs the twister as an EF-5 packing winds in excess of 200 mph – the highest rating possible on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.  Only one percent of all tornadoes achieve this strength.  Including yesterday’s twister, there have been 59 in the U.S. since 1950.  Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com

 Piles of debris and cars lie around a home destroyed by a tornado May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.
Piles of debris and cars lie around a home destroyed by a tornado May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Getty Images)

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