There are 65.4 tornadoes in this state – more than one for every week of the year on average. A particularly important date in the history of the state's tornadoes was 3 May 1999 when 70 struck, causing rampant destruction in and around Oklahoma City. One of these was recorded as an F5 with wind speeds topping 318 miles per hour (512km/h). Pictured here however, is damage from the EF5 tornado that destroyed the city of Moore on 20 May 2013.

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