00:00Think fall isn't tornado season? Some of the most damaging tornado outbreaks in the last 20 years
00:05have occurred in November. The U.S. averages roughly 50 tornadoes each November, with several
00:10years seeing over 100 tornadoes, but individual outbreaks can rival an entire month. One of the
00:16more recent outbreaks occurred a few years ago when 31 tornadoes struck parts of the South,
00:20including two violent EF-4 tornadoes during a two-day event on November 4th and 5th, 2022.
00:26One of the largest November tornado outbreaks occurred in the Midwest on November 17, 2013,
00:32when 77 tornadoes swept across the Midwest, one of which was a strong EF-4, the strongest tornado to
00:38ever hit Illinois in November. On November 16, 2015, 38 tornadoes struck the High Plains in the largest
00:44High Plains tornado outbreak to occur that late in the year. Several were strong, long-track tornadoes,
00:49including this EF-3 in southwest Kansas that was on the ground for nearly 90 minutes.
00:54And on November 7, 2011, southwest Oklahoma saw a small, localized outbreak of tornadoes,
01:00and that was capped off when a magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook the region. Storm chasers
01:05remember this day as QuakeNado. These events serve as a reminder that significant tornadoes
01:10don't always take the holiday season off. For AccuWeather, I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach.
01:15I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach. I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach. I'm meteorologistæ²¹ finest
