When it first touched down before it hit Moore, Doplar Radar measured it as 2.5 miles across which is the biggest tornado ever recorded on Earth. Also, at that time 300 mph winds were also recorded using instruments on it at that time. Luckily, this was even before it hit Moore, Oklahoma which was in it's path. I believe it was on the ground for 40 minutes over around 17 miles before it faded out again.
This makes sense to me as an intuitive because tornadoes likely because of Global Warming will get larger and larger like this. So, what that means in reality is that there will be more like this in the future years and then sometime likely in the next 5 to 10 years there will be something even bigger and faster than this one.
And personally, I don't want to be there when that happens. The next ones that hit luckily weren't as large so only 9 people died instead of hundreds who were trapped in their cars on the interstates in a traffic jam. However, if you were worried about drowning in your underground shelter from 8 to 11 inches of the rain (AND) worried about Hail the size of softballs (which was also falling there) (AND) worried about dying in a tornado, likely you too would have thought a car might be the best answer to keep you from dying from softball size hail, flooding and drowning in your underground shelter, or dying from having your home ripped off into the air with you going with it too flying away like Dorothy in Wizard of Oz.
Facts quoted from NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams tonight June 4th.
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