Mile Wide Tornado...or Path?

[Jinx]

Just wondering if I heard correctly…recently there was claimed to be a mile-wide tornado, as in diameter??? Or, mile-long path? The former is hard to fathom!

[NinetyWt]

Could be either.

Widest damage width

The widest tornado (defined as damage path, not condensation/debris cloud or radar measurements) on record is the Wilber - Hallam, Nebraska tornado during the outbreak of May 22, 2004, with a width of 2.5 miles (4 km) at its peak.[14]

The widest tornado as measured by actual radar wind measurements was the Mulhall (1999) tornado in northern Oklahoma which occurred during the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. The diameter of the maximum winds (over 110 metres per second (250 mph)) was over 1600 m as measured by a DOW radar. Although the tornado passed largely over rural terrain, the width of the wind swath capable of producing damage was as wide as 4 miles (7 km), making the actual wind field of the Mulhall tornado likely twice as wide as that of the Hallam tornado (the wind field of which was not measured), even though the Hallam tornado resulted in a wider damage path.[15]

Tornado records

[chacoguy]

My Mom was in a tornado in Fargo ND decades ago. It hit their house and moved it several feet; minute later, the other side hit and moved it back.

[Tastes_of_Chocolate]

@Jinx

Just wondering if I heard correctly…recently there was claimed to be a mile-wide tornado, as in diameter??? Or, mile-long path? The former is hard to fathom!

The former it is.
From NOAA

Estimated Max speed: 170mph
Damage Path Length: 149 miles
Maximum Path Width: 1.75 miles

[johnpost]

the large one down south was a mile diameter.

paths are often 5 to 30 miles for small ones. large ones will go near 100 and better.