Satellites See Storm System that Created Moore, Okla., Tornado
For reference only...
May 3, 1999
Doppler Radar Measures 318 mph Wind in Tornado
The 318-mph speed would put the tornado only 1 mph below an F-6 on the 0-to-6 Fujita scale. No tornado has ever been classified an F-6. (Related: The Fujita tornado scale).
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/wtwur318.htm
Frankly that headline is ridiculous. If asked whether you want a tornado or a 10Kt nuclear bomb dropped on your city, what you guess would be the response?
The media are at it again. I've read various numbers, from 10 to 91. they should not be in such a rush to sensationalism, at least until the final numbers are in.
It was bad, probably the worst ever, but stronger than Hiroshima? Stunning journalistic statement, but one more over exaggeration. People in its path were not vaporized where they stood, some died, but most survived the F5 ground zero. No one survived the Hiroshima ground zero. I take offense that a journalist would make a statement like this expecting me to believe it.