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May 5

44 entries from the federal record fall on May 5, across every year it covers.

Tornadoes

Tornadoes rated F3/EF3 or stronger, or that killed, on this date.

  1. 1960F5, 71.8 mile path, 5 killed Pottawatomie, OK; Lincoln, OK; Okfuskee, OK
  2. 1964F5, 79.7 mile path, 4 killed Polk, NE; Antelope, NE; Adams, NE
  3. 1960F4, 62.4 mile path, 16 killed Latimer, OK; Haskell, OK; Sequoyah, OK
  4. 1961F4, 26.4 mile path, 16 killed Le Flore, OK
  5. 1960F4, 5.4 mile path, 5 killed Sequoyah, OK
  6. 1989F4, 14 mile path, 4 killed Cleveland, NC; Lincoln, NC; Catawba, NC
  7. 1999F4, 6 mile path, 3 killed Perry, TN
  8. 1989F4, 15 mile path, 2 killed Spartanburg, SC; Cherokee, SC; Rutherford, NC
  9. 1989F4, 13 mile path, 1 killed Union, NC
  10. 1964F4, 51.2 mile path Greeley, NE; Boone, NE; Antelope, NE
  11. 1965F4, 9.9 mile path Calhoun, IA; Webster, IA
  12. 1965F4, 41.6 mile path Floyd, IA; Howard, IA; Winneshiek, IA
  13. 1977F4, 7.3 mile path Logan, IL; De Witt, IL
  14. 1993F4, 23 mile path Stevens, KS; Grant, KS
  15. 1960F3, 0.8 mile path, 2 killed Okmulgee, OK
  16. 1960F3, 4.5 mile path, 1 killed Sequoyah, OK
  17. 1960F3, 23.7 mile path, 1 killed Le Flore, OK; Sequoyah, OK
  18. 1971F3, 13.1 mile path, 1 killed Jasper, MO
  19. 1950F3, 17.3 mile path Jackson, KS; Brown, KS
  20. 1956F3, 1 mile path Escambia, FL
  21. 1960F3, 7.3 mile path Garvin, OK
  22. 1960F3, 101.9 mile path Tulsa, OK; Cleveland, OK; Pottawatomie, OK
  23. 1961F3, 0.1 mile path Choctaw, OK
  24. 1964F3, 5.2 mile path Richland, ND; Wilkin, MN
  25. 1964F3, 67 mile path Woodbury, IA; Plymouth, IA; Cherokee, IA
  26. 1964F3, 4.3 mile path Stearns, MN
  27. 1964F3, 20.4 mile path Stafford, KS; Reno, KS
  28. 1964F3, 33 mile path Barber, KS; Harper, KS
  29. 1965F3, 65.2 mile path Fillmore, MN; Houston, MN; Winona, MN
  30. 1971F3, 2 mile path Taylor, IA
  31. 1971F3, 37 mile path Muskogee, OK; Wagoner, OK; Cherokee, OK
  32. 1971F3, 3.8 mile path Chariton, MO
  33. 1971F3, 0.1 mile path Chariton, MO; Linn, MO
  34. 1978F3, 29.9 mile path Hunt, TX; Van Zandt, TX
  35. 1989F3, 10.5 mile path Forsyth, NC
  36. 1993F3, 12 mile path Texas, OK
  37. 1993F3, 18.5 mile path Texas, OK; Stevens, KS
  38. 1993F3, 13 mile path Sheridan, NE
  39. 2003F3, 1.6 mile path Lincoln, TN
  40. 2007EF3, 4 mile path Aurora, SD

Earthquakes

Magnitude 5 or more in the lower 48 and Hawaii, 6.5 or more in Alaska, on this date (local time).

  1. 1978M5.0, near Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX Yuma County, AZ
  2. 1987M6.8, near Adak, Alaska Aleutians West Census Area, AK

Wildfires

Fires of 50,000 acres or more that began on this date.

  1. 2007Big Turnaround Complex (Floyds Island Prairie), 215,291 acres GA
  2. 2007Ham Lake Fire, 70,575 acres MN