Today is the 15th "anniversary" of the May 3-4, 1999 Plains tornado outbreak

63 tornadoes tracked across Oklahoma, with the most notable being the F5 Bridge Creek-Newcastle-Moore-Oklahoma City tornado.


[link to www.srh.noaa.gov]


On May 3, 1999, multiple supercell thunderstorms produced many large and damaging tornadoes in central Oklahoma during the late afternoon and evening hours. Some of these storms were killers, including the twisters which moved through and/or near Dover, Shawnee, Perry and Bridge Creek, and the Moore and southern Oklahoma City metropolitan areas. Additional tornadoes also hit areas in south central Kansas, eastern Oklahoma and northern Texas, with over 70 tornadoes being observed across the region, and some tornadoes occurring the during the morning and early afternoon hours of May 4, 1999. The total tornado count in Oklahoma makes the May 3-4, 1999 tornado outbreak the largest ever recorded in the state.