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The second tornado emergency of the year in the U.S. was issued Thursday in Enid, Oklahoma. The tornado caused at least ten people to be injured and damaged about 40 homes.Emergencies are a third, most severe, but rare type of alert issued for tornadoes. The other types of alerts are the more common tornado warnings and watches.A tornado emergency is issued when a violent tornado has touched down in the watch area, and there is a threat to human life and property, according to the National Weather Service. There have been 316 tornado emergencies issued since May 1999, according to data from Iowa Environmental Mesonet. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet collects and archives information related to weather from a variety of sources. Tornado warnings have the highest frequency of the three types of alerts issued. Since 2005, an average of 2,800 tornado warnings have been issued annually in the United States. For emergencies, it’s about an average of 13 annually. So far in 2026, two tornado emergencies have occurred in the U.S. — the one in Oklahoma and one that was issued in March for Knox, Indiana. PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcmFtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnRXaW5kb3c9PT1lLnNvdXJjZSl0W3JdLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1lLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdW2FdKyJweCJ9fX0pKX0oKTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=
The second tornado emergency of the year in the U.S. was issued Thursday in Enid, Oklahoma. The tornado caused at least ten people to be injured and damaged about 40 homes.
Emergencies are a third, most severe, but rare type of alert issued for tornadoes. The other types of alerts are the more common tornado warnings and watches.
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A tornado emergency is issued when a violent tornado has touched down in the watch area, and there is a threat to human life and property, according to the National Weather Service.
There have been 316 tornado emergencies issued since May 1999, according to data from Iowa Environmental Mesonet. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet collects and archives information related to weather from a variety of sources.
Tornado warnings have the highest frequency of the three types of alerts issued. Since 2005, an average of 2,800 tornado warnings have been issued annually in the United States. For emergencies, it’s about an average of 13 annually.
So far in 2026, two tornado emergencies have occurred in the U.S. — the one in Oklahoma and one that was issued in March for Knox, Indiana.
