As of December 3, 2013 the most recent tornado was an EF2 tornado near Atlantic Beach, North Carolina on November 26. It did not result in any deaths. Most tornadoes do not. The most recent killer tornado was an EF3 that struck Brookport, Illinois on November 17, killing 3. Two other killer tornadoes ocurred earlier that same day, killing 2 people each.
As of August 22, 2013 the most recent killer tornado was an EF1 in Iowa on June 24. One person was killed.
The most recent killer tornado, which occurred in North Carolina on November 16, 2011, killed 2 people. It touched down less than an hour after another tornado in South Carolina that killed 3 people.
The Waco, Texas tornado killed 114 people.
27 people were killed.
The Daultapur-Saturia tornado of 1989 killed an estimated 1,300 people.
The Tri-State tornado killed 71 people in Indiana
The Oklahoma City tornado of May 3, 1999 killed 36 people.
The Andover tornado killed 17 people.
The Tri-State tornado killed 695 people.
The Joplin, Missouri tornado of May 22, 2011 killed 158 people. This ranks it as the 7th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
If you are referring to the Bridgeport, Connecticut tornado, none were killed by the tornado itself. 3 People were killed in other storm-related events.
158 people were killed by the Joplin tornado. Another tornado on the same day killed 1 person in the Minneapolis area.