{"id":11054,"date":"2013-05-21T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-service-moore-ok-tornado-rated-ef5-1-3-miles-wide-path-17-miles-long\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:53:33","slug":"weather-service-moore-ok-tornado-rated-ef5-1-3-miles-wide-path-17-miles-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-service-moore-ok-tornado-rated-ef5-1-3-miles-wide-path-17-miles-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather service: Moore, OK tornado rated EF5, 1.3 miles wide, path 17 miles long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National\u00a0Weather\u00a0Service has completed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/oun\/?n=events-20130520-pns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">its initial damage survey of the area near Moore, Oklahoma,<\/a>\u00a0where a deadly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/topic\/tornado\">tornado<\/a>\u00a0struck yesterday. Its assessment pegs the twister as an EF-5 packing winds in excess of 200 mph \u2013 the highest rating possible on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/tornadoes-101-the-enhanced-fujita-scale\">the Enhanced Fujita Scale<\/a>. \u00a0Only one percent of all tornadoes achieve this strength. \u00a0Including yesterday&#8217;s twister, there have been 59 in the U.S. since 1950. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/weather-service-moore-ok-tornado-rated-ef5-1-3-miles-wide-path-17-miles-long?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\" Piles of debris and cars lie around a home destroyed by a tornado May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.\" alt=\" Piles of debris and cars lie around a home destroyed by a tornado May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/58\/42\/1369168472_4506_tornado.jpg?itok=NAJdGtxS\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piles of debris and cars lie around a home destroyed by a tornado May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National\u00a0Weather\u00a0Service has completed\u00a0its initial damage survey of the area near Moore, Oklahoma,\u00a0where a deadly\u00a0tornado\u00a0struck yesterday. Its assessment pegs the twister as an EF-5 packing winds in excess of 200 mph \u2013 the highest rating possible on\u00a0the Enhanced Fujita Scale. \u00a0Only one percent of all tornadoes achieve this strength. \u00a0Including yesterday&#8217;s twister, there have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-service-moore-ok-tornado-rated-ef5-1-3-miles-wide-path-17-miles-long\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather service: Moore, OK tornado rated EF5, 1.3 miles wide, path 17 miles long<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11056,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}