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El Reno, Oklahoma. / 35.54306°N 97.96611°W / 35.54306; -97.96611. El Reno is a city in and county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 16,989, marking a change of 1.55% from 16,729, recorded in the 2010 census. The city was begun shortly after the 1889 land rush and named ...
The 2013 El Reno tornado was an extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado [a] that occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma during the early evening of Friday, May 31, 2013. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the ...
The 2011 El Reno–Piedmont tornado was a long-tracked and deadly EF5 tornado that struck central Oklahoma on the evening of May 24, 2011. The tornado impacted areas near or within the communities of El Reno, Piedmont, and Guthrie, killing nine and injuring 181. After producing incredible damage in several locations along a path of more than 60 ...
By far the most significant tornado of the outbreak was an extremely large EF3 tornado [a] that struck areas near the town of El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31. With a maximum width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), it was the largest tornado on record. The second-highest wind speeds recorded on Earth, up to 313 miles per hour (504 km/h), were also observed in ...
May 31, 2013 EF5 El Reno, OK Tornado showing multiple sub vortices.ogv. English: El Reno, OK EF5 tornado showing additional tornado's spinning up. This is a record breaking event as the EF5 grew to a width of 2.6 miles. Filmed from Dominator 1 by Ray Bohac.
English: Shot of the El Reno, Oklahoma EF-3 tornado near maximum width and peak intensity. Shot from just east of S Banner Rd and SW 15th St intersection southeast of El Reno. Shot from just east of S Banner Rd and SW 15th St intersection southeast of El Reno.
Lake El Reno was created in 1966 in Canadian County, Oklahoma, near the city of El Reno, by constructing an earthen dam across Fourmile Creek, (Canadian County, Oklahoma), a tributary of the North Canadian River. [1] [a] The lake has a normal capacity of 709 acre-feet (875,000 m 3 ), covers a surface area of 170 acres (690,000 m 2) and is ...
March 7, 1983. The Rock Island Depot is a one-story brick structure in El Reno, Oklahoma. Built in 1907 on the railroad tracks that ran along the western boundary of the Unassigned Lands that led to El Reno's settlement in 1889, it served as a passenger and freight terminal for the junction of the east–west and north–south lines of the Rock ...