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The outbreak included the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, the deadliest disaster in Illinois, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, and the second-deadliest registered in world history.
21 mar 2015 · A tornado tore a diagonal path of destruction across Southern Illinois on March 18, 1925. The Tri-State tornado, as it came to be known, left hundreds dead and thousands injured.
5 kwi 2019 · The tornado killed 33 schoolchildren, and 36 others, in De Soto. The death toll was even higher in West Frankfort, and only three buildings were left standing in nearby Parrish.
20 lis 2013 · The Great Tri-State Tornado cut a 219-mile path through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing nearly 700 people - 606 in Illinois - and injuring more than 2,000 in the three states,...
--(AP)-- Approximately 700 persons were killed: at Parrish and West Frankfort alone, by the terrific tornado which laid waste to a large section of southern Illinois today, according to word received here tonight.
Even though there are no known photographs of the actual storm itself, one glance at the damage in the photographs gives one a chilling sense of the horror that the survivors endured. This collection of photos comes from the Jackson County Historical Society in Murphysboro, Illinois.
18 mar 2014 · What they found was that the tornado ran along what is called the triple point, the intersection between the warm front, cold front, and occluded front, near the center of low pressure. The image below from their report shows the position of the tornado relative to the surface features.
