Over 1,000 Homes were destroyed during the 2013 Moore EF5 Tornado - Thousands left homeless

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The 2013 Moore, Oklahoma EF5 tornado. At its widest point, it measured over a mile across. Inside it, wind speeds reached 210 miles per hour — fast enough to peel asphalt from a roadbed, fast enough to turn a horse trailer into shrapnel. For thirty-nine minutes, it did not weaken.
At Plaza Towers, the second school to be hit, parents had been allowed to collect their children early in preparation for the oncoming storm. Therefore, by the time the tornado struck only about 75 students and teachers were in the building. Many students and teachers took shelter in bathrooms and closets, but in a newer addition to the building which housed the school's second and third grade classrooms, seven fatalities occurred. Third grade teacher Jennifer Doan was taking shelter with eleven of her students in a hallway when the tornado struck. Doan and her students were trapped when the walls of the corridor collapsed on top of them. Doan, who was two months pregnant with her third child at the time, suffered severe injuries to her back, but did not lose the baby. She and five of her students were pulled out, with the children suffering only minor to moderate injuries. Another six of her students along with a student from another third-grade class died.
By the time it lifted back into the clouds, it had carved a track nearly fourteen miles long through one of the most densely populated stretches of the city. Two elementary schools lay directly in its path. Twenty-four people would not survive the afternoon.
It was rated an EF5 — the highest classification on the Enhanced Fujita scale, reserved for wind speeds and damage so extreme that almost nothing built by human hands is expected to withstand them. It was, and remains, the most recent tornado to earn that rating in the state of Oklahoma. This is the story of the 2013 Moore tornado, and the three days of violent weather that produced it.



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