Wikimedia / Getty Images / APMay 26, 2016 at 7:00 AMTornado Town, USAFour devastating tornadoes hit Moore, Oklahoma, in 16 years. Was it geography or just bad luck?By Maggie Koerth-BakerFiled under WeatherPrintTwitterFacebookOn the evening of May 3, 1999, a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City area. Known today as the Bridge Creek-Moore Tornado, it’s infamous for its size (a mile wide) and strength (wind speeds reached 300 miles per hour, on par with a Tokyo bullet train).