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View of the downtown business district after the tornado View of Meissner School, one of few surviving buildings. At 6:45am CST on March 19, 1948, a tornado that originated in Alton, Illinois, blew through Bunker Hill, destroying the majority of the town's buildings and killing 19 people.
An early morning F4 tornado struck Belgrade, Missouri with four deaths and 38 injuries in eight destroyed homes, the deadliest tornado of the outbreak struck Fosterburg (nine), Bunker Hill (19) and Gillepsie (five) at F4 intensity which left a total of 33 fatalities and 449 injuries.
The tornado then moved through a wooded area before it strengthened to near peak intensity as it moved through Bunker Hill at F3 intensity before strengthening to its peak as it struck Fairmount and Waterville at high-end F3 intensity north of Waterbury. At all three locations, homes were flattened or had their roofs torn completely away with ...
1948 Alton-Bunker Hill-Gillespie tornado outbreak: March 18–19, 1948: Great Plains – Middle Mississippi Valley – 43 fatalities, ≥566 injuries: Early-morning F4 killed 33 people in Illinois. (25 significant, 3 violent, 5 killers) 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes: March 20 & 25, 1948: Oklahoma City: 2
The tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 2010, was a tornado outbreak that affected the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes region, ... SW of Bunker Hill: Cass, Miami
The last official EF5 tornado to hit the U.S. was the infamous 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado. This violent tornado was on the ground for more than 40 minutes, carving a path of devastation more ...
Ashley Thomas and her husband, Troy, are hoping to move into their new house in October, a little over a year after the Mullica Hill tornado destroyed their home. "There are people who chase ...
I don’t know if there are other items from the Academy still in existence. Some say that the concrete platform in the center of the park was part of the old Bunker Hill Military Academy building. Eventually, the Academy grounds were sold to the Ladies Civic League where they maintained a park until after the 1948 tornado.