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A tornado that struck near Monticello, Indiana was an F4 and had a path length of 121 miles (195 km), the longest path length of any tornado for this outbreak. A total of 19 people were killed in this tornado. [14] The first F5 tornado of the day struck the city of Depauw, Indiana, at 3:20 pm EDT.
Night of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row (now HarperCollins).The book is a semi-fictionalized account of the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, which produced seven tornadoes (including three that rotated anti-cyclonically) in and around Grand Island, Nebraska, on the evening of June 3, 1980, killing five ...
A F2 tornado destroyed small home along with other farm buildings near Sadlers Creek State Park, South Carolina with one injury. The only killer tornado on that day was a skipping F2 tornado that struck a mobile home near Lester, Georgia where one person died before destroying a police station in Alapaha, eight were injured by this tornado. In ...
The Ohio tornado on April 3, 1974, killed 34 people in Xenia, making it the deadliest single tornado of that day's Super Outbreak. Ohio has a long history of deadly, destructive tornadoes .
The 14 killer tornadoes in April were more than occurred in all of 2019 (12). April was an historic month for tornadoes in the United States, as reflected in the tragic monthly data released by ...
Tuesday night’s deadly tornado that struck the New Orleans area is the ideal example of what experts say is the 21st century problem with twisters: Killer tornadoes have shifted a bit out of the ...
The deadliest tornado outbreak sequence in American history. Killer tornadoes touched down from Texas to Pennsylvania. Produced at least three F5 tornadoes and several F4s, including an F4 that killed at least 255 people and injured 1,236 in the St. Louis area. In Sherman Texas on May 15, one of the most intense tornadoes of the 19th century ...
The book filled a gap in tornado information and strong sales led to an expansion, Significant Tornadoes, 1680-1991. In turn, proceeds of this book and of Tornado Project videos and posters were sufficiently robust to support an update that was published for the years 1992–1995.