This page documents the tornado

Tornado

A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...

es and tornado outbreak

Tornado outbreak

While there is no single agreed upon definition, generally at least 6-10 tornadoes produced by the same synoptic scale weather system is considered a tornado outbreak. The tornadoes usually occur within the same day, or continue into the early morning hours of the succeeding day, and within the...

s of 1993, primarily in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Most tornadoes form in the U.S., although some events may take place internationally. Tornado statistics for older years like this often appear significantly lower than modern years due to fewer reports or confirmed tornadoes, however by the 1990s tornado statistics were coming closer to the numbers we see today.

Synopsis

Not unlike 1992, the 1993 tornado season as unusually late. While April and May saw less activity than normal, June again was very busy with 313 tornadoes, and July saw 242. Fall was very quiet, and saw no large outbreaks. 1993 was also the first year since 1989 to be without an F5 tornado.

Events

Confirmed tornado total for the entire year 1993 in the United States.

February

There were 34 tornadoes confirmed in the US in February. On February 21, three people were killed by tornadoes in Tennessee and Georgia, rated as high as F3.

March

There were 48 tornadoes confirmed in the US in March. On March 12, five people were killed in Florida by three separate tornadoes, rated as high as F2.

April

There were 85 tornadoes confirmed in the US in April. On April 8, three people were killed in Jefferson County, Louisiana by an F2 tornado. On April 24, seven people were killed and one hundred injured by an F4 tornado in Catoosa, Oklahoma. Those seven fatalities were the most by any one tornado in 1993. The tornado damaged or destroyed 75% of the town's businesses.

May

There were 177 tornadoes confirmed in the US in May. On May 7, 46 tornadoes in the midwest resulted in one fatality from an F4 tornado in Kansas.

June

There were 313 tornadoes confirmed in the US in June. On June 7, an outbreak of 40 tornadoes primarily in South Dakota resulted in two F4 tornadoes, but no fatalities.

August 6

The 1993 Virginia tornado outbreak was a tornado outbreak that occurred in the Southeastern United States on August 6, 1993. It was very rare in that most tornado outbreaks in this region occur in the spring. 22 tornadoes touched down, with one F4 killing four people and injuring over two hundred.

August 8,9

The August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak was a small tornado outbreak that occurred over the Upper Midwest of the United States for a period of two days. An F0 tornado near Littlefork, Minnesota lifted and moved a mobile home killing its two occupants. It is Minnesota's most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths. Other minor tornadoes occurred in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, causing limited damage.

October

There were 55 tornadoes confirmed in the US in October. On October 30, an F2 tornado killed three people in Lee County, Georgia.

External links

• U.S. tornadoes in 1993 - Tornado History Project
• Tornado deaths monthly