The mile-wide EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma was partof a succession of 22 tornadoes that spun across six states on Monday. This camejust one day after a northeast-moving storm from Texas to Minnesota produced about300 appearances of hail and high winds.
Though it's too early to draw accurate or justifiablecomparisons, current scenes from Moore look eerily familiar to the devastation foundin Joplin almost two years ago, when an EF5 tornado ripped throughthe Missouri town. Far less deadly than the Joplin twister—whichclaimed 161 lives while injuring hundreds more—Monday's tornado inMoore, Okla. similarly carved a path through a heavily populatedswath of the city.
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