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12. Injured. 42. The 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster was a traffic collision that occurred on the morning of December 11, 1990, on a section of Interstate 75 (I-75) near Calhoun, Tennessee, during dense fog which obscured the visibility of motorists. The collisions occurred in an area where fog is common and had been the site of previous multi ...
A destructive tornado outbreak struck a wide swath of the Southern and Eastern United States as well as Canada on November 15 and 16, 1989. It produced at least 40 tornadoes and caused 30 deaths as a result of two deadly tornadoes. The most devastating event was the Huntsville, Alabama F4 tornado, which killed 21 on the afternoon of November 15.
1990 saw some unusual and powerful tornadoes and tornado outbreaks. On March 13 not one, but two F5 tornadoes struck Kansas, both coming from the same supercell.This was the only day since the 1974 Super Outbreak to have more than one F5 on the same day until the 2011 Super Outbreak, when four EF5 tornadoes touched down on April 27.
The 1990 Plainfield tornado was a devastating tornado that occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 28, 1990. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. [1] It is the only F5/EF5 rated tornado ever officially recorded in August in the United States (unofficially the 1883 Rochester, Minnesota cyclone is considered an F5), and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area.
Car crashes have accounted for several of Tennessee's deaths. One person in Madison County died in a weather-related car crash, officials said, though they provided no further details of the incident.
The Flint-Beecher F5 tornado produced the last 100+ death toll for a single tornado in US history until the 2011 Joplin tornado. An F4 tornado that struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killed 94 people and may have reached F5 status as well. (26 significant, 6 violent, 7 killer) [36] [37] Tornado outbreak of June 27, 1953: June 27, 1953: North ...
73,000. Part of the tornado outbreaks of 2020. A small but deadly tornado outbreak affected West and Middle Tennessee on the night of March 2 and into the morning of March 3, 2020, including a high-end EF3 tornado that hit Nashville and Mount Juliet, becoming the 6th costliest tornado in United States history, and a violent EF4 tornado that ...
Livingston–Byrdstown, Tennessee: 35 deaths; Brent–Pelham, Alabama: 21 deaths; Anderson–Fountain Inn, South Carolina: 19 deaths; 128 1945 Tornado outbreak of April 12, 1945: Tornado outbreak Midwestern United States: Including 69 deaths from a tornado in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma: 128 1956 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: Accident ...