On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma. I was in my third-grade classroom in Plaza Towers Elementary School as the winds reached 200-210 miles per hour. The tornado reached 1.3 miles wide, and had traveled over 14 miles. It killed 25 people, 7 in my school, and injured 212. The tornado caused catastrophic damage around the city of Moore, with 1,150 homes destroyed as a result, including my own. Damage estimates ranged up to $2 billion. The tornado was ranked as the ninth-deadliest tornado in the state's history.
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