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The tornado outbreak sequence of May 25–June 1, 1917 was an eight-day tornado event, known as a tornado outbreak sequence, that killed at least 383 people, mostly in the Midwestern and parts of the Southeastern United States. It was the most intense and the longest continuous tornado outbreak sequence on record, with at least 66 tornadoes ...
Tri-State tornado outbreak. 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. In all, at least 751 people were killed and more than 2,298 [ 2] were injured, making the outbreak the deadliest ...
Mattoon, Illinois. Location of Mattoon in Coles County, Illinois. / 39.47750°N 88.36222°W / 39.47750; -88.36222. Mattoon ( / ˈmæt.tun / MAT-toon) [3] is a city in Coles County, Illinois, United States. The population was 16,870 as of the 2020 census. The city is home to Lake Land College and has close ties with its neighbor, Charleston.
1917 March 1917 tornado outbreak: Tornado outbreak: Ohio Valley: Including 46 deaths from a single tornado in Indiana and Kentucky 47 1922 Argonaut Mine: Accident – gold mine: Jackson, California: 47 1933 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane: Tropical cyclone: East Coast of the United States: 47 1938 Custer Creek train wreck: Accident ...
The swarm of tornadoes and powerful storms that leveled large swaths of communities across the Midwest and South, reducing them to heartbreaking panoramas of Victims of deadly tornadoes remembered ...
Active December produced three outbreaks with this one being the third and most severe of them. An F2 tornado killed two in Alabama, an F4 tornado killed three in Missouriand another F2 tornado killed one in Mississippi. (19 significant, 1 violent, 3 killer)[91] Tornado outbreak of April 21–24, 1968.
They represent 19 people who were injured and the family of the man who was killed when an EF-1 tornado packing winds of 100 mph struck the Apollo Theatre, 104 N. State St., causing the roof to ...
There were 40 tornadoes with deaths at schools (234 deaths) before 1953 and 6 events (52 deaths) after that year (not including the probable downburst in New York). Two high fatality events after 1953 occurred in Mississippi (23 in 1955) and Illinois (13 in 1967); accounting for 82% of 1952–2006 deaths, both from violent class tornadoes.