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This tornado is the most recent F5 or EF5 tornado to hit Central Illinois. An F2 tornado killed two people in Lincoln County, [26] [25] and an FU tornado was reported west of Findlay. [25] April 12, 1945 – An F2 tornado tracked through portions of Missouri before crossing the state line into Adams County, causing $3 million (1945 USD) in ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
10 2 1965: 897 0 246 300 249 71 30 1 1966: 585 0 169 239 145 25 4 3 1967: 927 0 282 327 243 58 17 0 1968: 657 0 192 251 163 39 8 4 1969: 608 0 195 218 139 49 7 0 1970: 653 0 164 253 191 36 8 1 1971: 889 0 188 380 239 71 10 1 1972: 741 0 174 345 181 37 4 0 1973: 1,102 0 219 497 301 71 13 1 1974: 945 0 222 384 208 95 29 7 1975: 919 0 307 376 191 ...
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
This was one of the most intense December outbreaks in the Contiguous United States and the most intense Illinois tornado outbreak in any month. An F4 tornado struck Mt. Vernon, Illinois, an F5 tornado obliterated Sunfield, Illinois, and a long-tracked F4 struck several towns hit by the 1925 Tri-State tornado.
With 55 tornadoes in 2024 as of Thursday, Iowa has seen the most tornadoes this year. A graphic from AccuWeather depicting the number of tornadoes each state has seen so far in 2024.
The 2013 Washington, Illinois, tornado was an unusually powerful and violent tornado that caused catastrophic damage to the city of Washington and several farmsteads in rural central Illinois during the early afternoon of November 17, 2013. The tornado resulted in three fatalities and injured 125 people.