wind that, sure, pack a punch, but that pack a very, very, very narrowly targeted punch. we think of tornadoes as the pinpoint strike of the storm world. but that tornado in moore, oklahoma, was huge. it was 1.3 miles wide on the ground. it was not a pinpoint strike. it was as wide as 23 football fields laid end to end, while it was on the ground. tornado-force winds more than a mile across. that was moore, oklahoma, may 20th. and then less than two weeks later, that storm in moore was dwarfed by an even bigger tornado, which hit el reno, oklahoma. el reno wasn't 1.3 miles across, like moore was. el reno was double that. 2.6 miles across, on the ground! the el reno storm is less remembered now, because it struck a less populated area and therefore did less damage than moore, but that el reno tornado was the largest storm of that kind ever recorded on earth. before el reno, there had never before been a tornado that was more than 2.5 miles wide on the
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