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In the midday and afternoon hours of March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in United States history and second-deadliest worldwide moved through Eastern Missouri, Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027 more in what is sometimes known as the Great Tri-State Tornado.
Track of the Tri-State tornado. During a six-year review study of the Tri-State tornado published in 2013, new surface and upper air data was obtained and meteorological reanalysis was utilized, adding significantly to knowledge of the synoptic and even mesoscale background of the event. The late winter to early spring of 1925 was warmer and ...
The most "extreme" tornado in recorded history was the Tri-State tornado, which spread through parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. It is considered an F5 on the Fujita Scale , holds records for longest path length at 219 miles (352 km) and longest duration at about 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours.
On March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, tore a 219-mile-long path across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. ... It traveled at a record speed of 73 ...
It will take a National Weather Service survey to know for sure, but reports indicate one of Friday's tornadoes stayed on the ground for 223 miles
On March 18, 1925, the violent Tri-State tornado occurred, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027 people, while traveling 219 miles (352 km) over a period of 3 hours and 45 minutes. At one point, the tornado was moving with a forward speed of 73 miles per hour (117 km/h), setting the record as the fastest forward moving violent tornado in history.
Lexus Gernigan, left, embraces her husband, Zakari Plouchard after a tornado hit the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park off Siebert Lane in Mount Vernon, Ind., Tuesday, July 9, 2024.
Early estimates suggested that the tornado family—identified by some media outlets as a "Quad-State tornado", due to the storm's long track extending into Kentucky and its similarity to the 219-mile (352 km) Tri-State tornado of 1925—might have cut a path of up to 250 miles (400 km) across the affected areas, making it the longest-tracked ...