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Summary 2013 Tornado - Moore Oklahoma - Case Study Notes

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A quick summary of the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado of 2013, with key facts clearly laid out.

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Moore, Oklahoma, USA; Tornado
‘President Obama declared a major disaster in the state, ordering federal aid to the
affected areas’
The Tornado Moore Key Facts
-20th May, 2013 -59,000 residents
-touched down at -suffered many previous
2.56pm tornados, and the area
-1.3mile wide around was regularly hit, but
->200mph winds at the very few homes and public
core buildings had storm shelters!
-EF5 Warning and Preparation
-travelled at 20mph -warning went out 16mins
Briarwood Elementary
-lasted 39mins before
School
-covered over 17miles -sirens
-hit at 3.16pm and
-deadliest US tornado -news warnings
passed over the school
for two years -past EF5 tornados in 1999
in 60seconds
-also brought rain and and 2003
-the school did not
hail -the advice is to get
Moore Medical Centre have a storm shelter
-picked up everything, -power went out
Effects -tornado hit a fairly major
-24 deaths (9 were hospital Plaza Towers School
children) -many people had gone there -the second school to
-377 injured to take shelter/get help and be hit
-150,000tonnes of medical facilities were -70+ people inside
debris left in Moore already stretched to their -7 children died
-2,400 homes limits -didn’t have a storm
destroyed -not all the patients could be shelter, but one is
-13,000 homes moved before the hit (eg. a included in the plans
damaged woman was in labour at the for the rebuilding of the
Response
-$2billion of property American Red Cross
damage -1,000 volunteers
-entire neighbourhoods -4,000 homes helped
lost -1/4million meals
-town bowling alley provided
-people now building
storm shelters

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