Ef 3 Tornados

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It was a humid, thunder Sunday evening when suddenly a big blob of grey smoke started to arise. And then there it was, a vast raging tornado coming toward El Reno. It kicked of with an immense width and ended with the scale of 2.6 miles, which is now then new record for the longest width of tornadoes. Unlike other long tornadoes this one wasn’t very disastrous, it was EF3 which is meant to be a tornado that can destroy things like trees or homes but not heavy items like hotels etc!

The Tornado began at 6:03 p.m. and ended at 6:43 p.m. and despite it being an EF3 it claimed 24 lives. Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras and Carl Young were killed by the tornado because they were working for a channel called “Storm Chasers” in which their job

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