| It is true that Oklahoma has a long history of being | | | | miles and dropped it in Arkansas! |
| pummeled year after year by volatile tornadoes, | | | | On May 3, 1999 sixty six tornadoes broke out in |
| usually in the late spring or early summer, causing | | | | Oklahoma and Kansas. The most significant tornado |
| millions of dollars in damage to vehicles, aircraft, and | | | | first touched down southwest of Chickasha |
| Oklahoma real estate. The cost in casualties and | | | | Oklahoma and became an F5 (defined by winds |
| injuries, however, is typically much lower than might | | | | 261-318 mph and damage including strong frame |
| be expected. | | | | houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable |
| April showers are supposed to bring May flowers, but | | | | distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly |
| if you live in Oklahoma, April showers may bring | | | | through the air in excess of 100 meters; trees |
| tornadoes. Between 1950 and 1995 Oklahoma | | | | debarked; steel re-enforced concrete structures |
| recorded 2,379 tornadoes of varying severity | | | | badly damaged) before dissipating. |
| averaging fifty two tornadoes a year. The average | | | | The tornado tore through Bridge Creek, Oklahoma |
| cost in tornado damage to property and Oklahoma | | | | and Moore, Oklahoma, causing $1.1 billion in damage to |
| real estate a year is $23,221,264. | | | | Oklahoma real estate. The F5 tornado was the |
| Tornadoes are one of nature's most violent storms, | | | | deadliest (36 killed), costliest ($1 billion in damage), and |
| and although tornadoes occur in many parts of the | | | | most violent (first and only F5) tornado on record in |
| world, they occur most frequently in the central | | | | Oklahoma. This tornado was the most prolific tornado |
| plains areas of the United States. A tornado is | | | | outbreak in Oklahoma history. |
| defined as a violently rotating column of air extending | | | | However, despite all the frightening statistics and |
| from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent | | | | horror stories of loss and damage to Oklahoma real |
| tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction to | | | | estate, scientists estimate that there is roughly only |
| everything unfortunate enough to by in their path | | | | three chances in 1,000,000 of having your home |
| including Oklahoma real estate, with wind speeds of | | | | flattened by the F4-F5 winds in a violent tornado. So |
| 250 mph or more. Damage paths can be more than | | | | if worries of tornadoes crushing your Oklahoma real |
| one mile wide and fifty miles long. Once a tornado in | | | | estate investments keep you up at night, you can |
| Broken Bow Oklahoma carried a motel sign thirty | | | | sleep easy. |