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The deadliest tornado in US history, the Tri-State Tornado, struck Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in March 1925. [24] St. Louis, Missouri and neighboring East St. Louis, Illinois have been hit more than once by violent tornadoes, the most notorious of which was the St. Louis Tornado of May 1896. [25]
There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area.The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
The upshot. Twisters tend to strike in Tornado Alley, a nickname for the nation's central region with the most tornadoes from the 1950s to 1990s. 17 Texas, 12 Illinois, 9 Missouri, and 7 Kansas ...
The year 2024 will go down in history as the second-worst tornado season on record, beating 2011, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center's said Friday. ... and Missouri rounded out the top 5 highest ...
Tornado outbreak of June 1881; Tornado outbreak of March 27, 1890; 1891 Missouri tornado; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896; 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado; Tornado outbreak of April 29 – May 1, 1909; Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; 1925 Tri-State tornado; 1925 Tri-State ...
A large tornado tracks past a highway near Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 26, 2024. ... 2024 tornado season was 2nd worst on record, driven by hurricanes ... followed by Iowa and Missouri.
[65] [66] [67] This was the deadliest tornado in Missouri since the 2011 Joplin tornado. [68] Weak tornadoes continued to touch down across parts of the Ohio Valley later that day, including three EF1 tornadoes that caused considerable damage in the Louisville metro area.
PDS tornado warnings were issued for EF1 tornadoes near Equality, Illinois and Aurora, Missouri. A tornado emergency was issued for a large, low-end EF3 tornado east of Columbia, Tennessee; a fatality and four injuries have been confirmed with this tornado. [123]