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The largest school death toll from a tornado was 69 during the Tri-State Tornado, which also struck Illinois and significantly raised that state's death toll. The greatest death toll at a single school also occurred during the Tri-State tornado, when it killed 33 at a school in De Soto, also in Illinois. This tornado also injured hundreds more ...
Morgan Elementary School The tornado struck the school, destroying several classrooms and throwing cars on top of the building. Fortunately, the children and faculty, who were huddled in the hallways, were not injured. A woman was crushed by a school bus that flew into a ditch she was sheltering in. [4] [5] [6] 1974 Xenia tornado: F0–F5 [a]
The strongest, often referred to as the Springfield Tornado, was a long-track, high-end EF3 tornado that caused significant damage to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as several adjacent cities and towns. By the end of the day, three people had been killed, at least 200 were injured, and over 500 families were left homeless.
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August 9, 1878: A violent tornado killed either 29 or 34 people in Wallingford, Connecticut. [8] July 16, 1879: Two people were killed by a tornado in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. [9] July 26, 1890: A tornado killed eight people in Lawrence, Massachusetts. [10] July 4, 1898: A tornado struck Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, a popular resort town ...
A tornado watch has been issued for parts of western Oklahoma and northwest Texas until 1 p.m. Saturday, with the potential for tennis ball-sized hail and winds reaching up to 70 mph, per CNN.
Although he is widely believed to have been killed by the second Fridley twister later that night (which did kill a 26-year-old man with a similar name), the caller was actually a teacher at Fridley Junior High School who survived. The tornado also damaged the sign adorning the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights. In all, both Fridley tornadoes ...
A damaged sign lies outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed when a tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma, in May 2013. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) A decade ago ...