14 DAY TRIAL // Last Friday, a so-called mammoth tornado touched ground close to Oklahoma City, in El Reno. Information shared with the public by the US National Weather Service says that this twister was the widest to have ever been recorded in the United States.
The US National Weather Service explains that, as far as it can tell, the tornado's width was one of 2.6 miles (4 kilometers).
It also says that the winds stirred by this twister had speeds of up to 295 mph (474.7 km/h).
At first, the tornado was classified as an EF3. However, after reviewing the damage left behind by this deadly twister, specialists decided that the tornado was “worthy” of being classified as an EF5.
Due to the fact that the twister was so wide, some of the people who had the chance to take one good look at it had trouble figuring out that what they were looking at was a tornado, Sky News reports.