Editing Moore, Oklahoma (section)

====1999 tornado====
{{Main|1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado}}
During [[1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak|the tornado outbreak]] on May&nbsp;3, 1999, a tornado hit Moore and nearby areas. The tornado, which was rated an F5 on the [[Fujita scale]], was the most costly tornado in history at the time (not adjusted for changes in inflation and population).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Brooks |first=Harold E. |author-link=Harold E. Brooks |author2=C. A. Doswell III |title=Normalized Damage from Major Tornadoes in the United States: 1890–1999 |journal=Weather Forecast. |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=168–76 |date=February 2001 |doi=10.1175/1520-0434(2001)016<0168:NDFMTI>2.0.CO;2 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1234647 |bibcode=2001WtFor..16..168B |doi-access=free }}</ref> The tornado had an approximate recorded wind speed of {{convert|301|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}} as sampled by [[Doppler on Wheels|mobile Doppler radar]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Wurman |first=Joshua |author2=C. Alexander |author3=P. Robinson |author4=Y. Richardson |title=Low-Level Winds in Tornadoes and Potential Catastrophic Tornado Impacts in Urban Areas |journal=[[Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]] |volume=88 |issue=1 |pages=31–46 |publisher=[[American Meteorological Society]] |date=January 2007 |doi=10.1175/BAMS-88-1-31 |bibcode=2007BAMS...88...31W |doi-access=free }}</ref> the highest [[wind speed]] ever recorded on Earth. It left a swath of destruction over {{convert|1|mi|km|sigfig=2}} wide at times, and {{convert|38|mi|km|sigfig=1}} long. It killed a total of 36 people in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. This was the deadliest F5 tornado recorded since the [[Delhi, Louisiana]] [[February 1971 Mississippi Delta tornado outbreak|tornado]] in 1971 until this mark was eclipsed by [[Tornadoes of 2011|several tornadoes in 2011]].