2013 El Reno tornado

2013 El Reno tornado
EF3 tornado
	View of the tornado from the southeast at 6:28 p.m. CDT (2328 UTC) as it was nearing peak strength
Type	Tornado
Formed	May 31, 2013, 6:03 p.m. CDT (UTC−05:00)
Duration	40 minutes
Dissipated	May 31, 2013, 6:43 pm. CDT (UTC−05:00)
Highest winds	~296 mph (476 km/h);
Max. rating1	EF3 tornado
Maximum rainfall	3.00 in
Casualties	8 fatalities, 151 injuries
Damage	$35–40 million (estimate)
Areas affected	Canadian County, Oklahoma; especially areas to the south of El Reno
	Part of the tornado outbreak of May 26–31, 2013; 1Most severe tornado damage; see Enhanced Fujita scale

The 2013 El Reno tornado happened on May 31, 2013. It happened close to the city of El Reno, Oklahoma in central Oklahoma.^[3] It was the widest tornado ever recorded.^[4] This tornado also was found to have some of the strongest winds ever found. One mobile Doppler weather radar found very high winds of 296 miles per hour.^[4] These winds are slightly less than the 460 kilometer per hour winds detected in a tornado on May 3, 1999 while it was close to Bridge Creek, Oklahoma in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.^[5]

Notes

↑ The National Weather Service does not currently implement wind speed estimates into its official tornado ratings, so while the winds align with the "EF5" category of the Enhanced Fujita scale, damage surveys took precedence. As a result, while the wind estimates are considered reliable by the NWS,^[2] the tornado ultimately received a rating of "EF3" based on a damage survey (in the weeks before this, it was considered an "EF5").