The tornado, an EF-5, that hit El Reno, a suburb of Oklahoma City, was 2.6 miles wide! The parent mesocyclone was 8 miles wide and had 4-5 satellite tornadoes revolving around. The satellite tornadoes where moving at a forward speed of 150 mph! This storm is one for the record books.....Death toll up to 19 or 20 now. They found the body of a child this morning in the Oklahoma River.

I just heard that it was packing winds of 300 mph.

Dang, that one knocked the Hallam Nebraska tornado off the top of the record books for the widest tornado ever recorded. I remember the Hallam tornado, it ended up south of Lincoln before it petering out. That was one of the greenest, erie looking skies I have ever seen. Our local weather man was on the air freaking out the whole time that tornado was on the ground an it was on the ground for 52 miles.
2004 Hallam Nebraska Tornado

According to Wiki, this storm was on the ground for 10 minutes and traveled 52 miles?????? Someone do the math on this! 60mph is a mile a minute. This has got to be false information.....

That comes out to approximately 312 mph.

Wikipedia is not always a reliable source of information.

Possibly, they mean square miles.

Did anybody catch the documentary on discovery about Moore OK. Tornado. They are replaying it again tonight at 9:00 central on Discovery Channel.

It was on the ground a lot longer than 10 minutes, that I DO remember. Here is another entry you can trust. That first entry probably has typo and is missing a zero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2004_tornado_outbreak_sequence