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The Tri-State Tornado of 1925. 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.
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.
1 kwi 2013 · The "Tri-State tornado" event of 18 March 1925, with an official death toll of 695 people, generally is accepted as the deadliest single tornado in United States recorded history. The...
Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Issued by the local NWS office when a severe thunderstorm is indicated by radar or reported by trained observers. A warning may cover a part of a county or several counties and is normally valid for 30 minutes to 1 hour in duration.
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.
With the enormous size of the Tri-State Tornado, it is likely that all warnings issued on that particular storm would have been Tornado Warnings. Because the storm moved at speeds of 60 to 70 mph over much of its path, the Tornado Warnings probably would have included more than one county--a technique known as "blanket" warning.
