Scott A. Kampas
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If I had my pick of any world city, I'd pick OKC. ;-)
Other major tornado events have struck cities away from downtown or in the metro area including Kansas City, Chicago, Worcester, Birmingham, Dallas, Wichita Falls, and St. Louis.
OKC is huge for its population (3rd largest in the country in geographical area); and the distinction needs to be clear whether it is city limits or metropolitan area under consideration. Only if the area within the city limits of Dallas and Ft. Worth are combined is there a larger city in areal coverage. Also, much of the area within the OKC city limits is not yet built, the urbanized area is 244 mi². Here is a sampling of areas of several cities:
Dallas: 385.0 mi² + Ft. Worth: 298.9 mi² = Total: 683.9 mi²
Oklahoma City: 621.2 mi²
Originally posted by Bill Tabor
Also consider the study ranking OKC so high doesn't even include the area from Norman.
Originally posted by Chris Sokol
Wasn't September 5th, 1992 the last tornado actually to hit Norman?