A tornado spins in the Texas panhandle between the towns of Groom, Pampa, and Codman on November 16, 2015.
Strong tornadoes are a common sight in the southern and central High Plains. But not in November.
On November 16, a trio of EF3 tornadoes tore through parts of the Texas panhandle and far southwest Kansas, part of a multi-day outbreak of an estimated 53 tornadoes from the Plains to the Southeast through November 18, according to severe weather expert, Dr. Greg Forbes.
These were the farthest west F/EF3 November tornadoes on record in the U.S., dating to 1950, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) database, as plotted by the Tornado History Project.
The Texas panhandle EF3 tornadoes missed the town of Pampa, Texas, but levelled a Halliburton plant outside of town. The third EF3 struck a farm house west of Kismet, Kansas.
May and June are typically the most active months for tornadoes in the High Plains from southwest Kansas to the Texas panhandle, according to SPC climatology.
If that wasn't enough, the Kismet, Kansas, EF3 tornado was also believed to be the widest documented November tornado of record, estimated at 1.136 miles wide, according to the Dodge City, Kansas, National Weather Service storm survey.
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