A destructive “wedge-shaped tornado” almost one and a half kilometers wide hit Mississippi, claiming lives
“This tornado was just... different.He was scary and loud. It was a terrible beast in the dark that literally destroyed the city,” Zachary Hall, a “tornado hunter,” wrote on social networks.
According to the Washington Post, the storm that causedThe tornado was one of the largest to hit California. It caused severe flooding in Arizona, eastern Oklahoma and northern Virginia. As it moved, it gained strength, fueled by high surface temperatures over the Gulf of Mexico and high-altitude winds of the jet stream.
According to the National MeteorologicalUS service, the tornado turned into a supercell - an atmospheric formation that produces even more severe weather conditions, including tornadoes. This is an unusual but very destructive thunderstorm with a rotating updraft and a separate downward spiral of air.
The White House declared a state of emergencyon a federal scale and has unlocked funding to provide temporary housing and assistance to victims, including building repairs.
According to the National Meteorologicalservices, the storm was Mississippi's deadliest in more than 50 years. It hit several small towns. However, the tornado was not the strongest on record. The widest ever documented was the 4.2-km-wide El Reno, which swept through central Oklahoma in May 2013.
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On the cover: photomontage of tornado evolution; A composite of eight images taken in two sequences during a tornado formation north of Minneola, Kansas on May 24, 2016.
Author: Jason Weingart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons