Oklahoma is well on its way to extending the current record on large, destructive tornadoes. It has been almost twelve full years since an EF5 scorched a path anywhere across the country, the last being the May 13th Moore twister back in 2013.
That’s not to say the world hasn’t had some big tornadoes since then, there have been… but nothing has risen to the “Granddaddy” level of EF5 since.
While there was a period of time in the late 2000s and into the early 2010s when EF5’s were happening quite regularly, it’s not that twisters grew to that size a lot, but it was a time when dark skies gave everyone something to worry about…