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Tri-State Tornado of 1925, tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, that traveled from southeastern Missouri through southern Illinois and into southwestern Indiana on March 18, 1925. The storm completely destroyed a number of towns and caused 695 deaths.
On March 18, 1925, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recorded history generated at least twelve significant tornadoes and spanned a large portion of the midwestern and southern United States.
On March 18, 1925, the Great Tri-State Tornado tore across Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Southwest Indiana. With its rapid movement, monstrous size, and long track, the tornado took hundreds of lives and injured thousands.
Tri-State Tornado – tornado, które 18 marca 1925 roku przeszło przez trzy amerykańskie stany: południowo-wschodnią część Missouri, południowy obszar Illinois i południowo-zachodnią część Indiany i wśród znanych przypadków jest uznawane za najbardziej ekstremalne tornado.
America's deadliest tornado occurred on March 18, 1925. Tracking across three states, it killed at least 695 people. The tornado was later considered to be F5 strength, the top of the original Fujita Scale for tornado intensity.
During the next 40 minutes, 541 people were killed and 1,423 were seriously injured as the tornado tore a path of destruction nearly one mile wide through the towns of Murphysboro, De Soto, Hurst-Bush, and West Frankfort.
5 kwi 2019 · On a normal day in the Midwest in 1925, any one of these stories would have been worthy of front-page coverage. But March 18, 1925, was a day like no other the region had ever seen. That day, a...
