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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 ...
An artist reconstruction of the Tri-State Tornado as it was approaching Newman School in Illinois, several miles northwest of Carmi. After exiting De Soto, the tornado clipped the northwest corner of Williamson County, narrowly missing the town of Hurst and striking the small village of Bush. Several homes were leveled, and pieces of wood were ...
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. An additional F4 tornado hit Arkansas. (29 significant, 4 violent, 6 killer) Tornado outbreak of April 15, 1958: April 15, 1958: Florida and Georgia: 5: 36 injuries
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.
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 ...
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
A map of the tornado paths in the 1974 Super Outbreak. This article lists various tornado records.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.
A graphic from AccuWeather depicting the number of tornadoes each state has seen so far in 2024. Following Iowa is Kansas at 50, Nebraska at 44, Texas and Ohio at 43, and Oklahoma and Illinois at 40.