El Reno Tornado Research Paper

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The El Reno tornado in Oklahoma happened on May 31, 2013. The Enhanced Fujita scale (EF) was first considered a 5/5. It was then changed to EF3 because it was mostly in open terrain so there wasn't as much damage as they thought. The extreme winds reached 295 mph. The width was 2.6 miles. It is the widest tornado ever recorded in the world. It was made of several small sub-vortices. It began at 6:o3 p.m CDT and ended at 6:43 p.m CDT making it 40 minutes long.

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