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Many other structures were destroyed at EF4 intensity along the path of this tornado as well and entire groves of large trees were mowed down and completely stripped of their bark. The massive tornado reached a width of 2.25 miles (3.62 km), making it the widest tornado in Mississippi history and the third-widest on record in the United States.
Devastation from a tornado that hit Glen Allen, Mo., in southeastern Missouri, killing several people and causing an unknown number of injuries, is pictured on Wednesday, April 5, 2023.
Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] Year ... This page was last edited on 2 March 2025, ...
Having been struck by another EF4 tornado in the previous month, it was the first time since 2013 that multiple violent tornadoes occurred in Oklahoma in the same year. [4] By May 21, May had exceeded its average tornado count, making it the first time since 2019 that May was above average.
Emergency crews began searching with flashlights in the darkness for survivors
There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area.The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
One suspected tornado moved Sunday night through St. Mary, Missouri, about 55 miles (88 kilometers) southeast of St. Louis, before crossing the Mississippi River into Chester, Illinois, the ...
Iowa reported 3,900 almost as many as Texas. [15] The deadliest tornado in US history, the Tri-State Tornado, struck Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in March 1925. [24] St. Louis, Missouri and neighboring East St. Louis, Illinois have been hit more than once by violent tornadoes, the most notorious of which was the St. Louis Tornado of May 1896 ...