I've been so focused on tomorrow's nice weather that it slipped my mind that today is the nine-year anniversary of the Moore, Oklahoma F5 tornado. It is the strongest tornado ever recorded; Doppler radar estimated the wind speed about 250 feet of the ground to be 318 mph. The Fujita scale is a tornado damage scale - the wind speed ranges are educated guesses - and the old scale only went up to 319 mph. (The new scale removes the upper bound.)
You can read more about the historic event on the NWS Norman, OK website and watch KOCO's archived coverage of the storm.
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