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Additionally, three of the top ten events by death toll, and four if separate schools of the same tornado are counted (33 in De Soto and 25 in Murphysboro again from the Tri-State Tornado), have occurred in Illinois. The state with the highest number of tornadoes with deaths at schools is Alabama at 8 events. Illinois is second with 6 tornadoes.
Tornado damage near Damascus, Arkansas. At around 8:30 am CDT on May 2, an EF3 tornado touched down north of Little Rock in Conway County, killing two people. [95] The tornado then proceeded into Van Buren County and caused extensive damage to the Damascus area and killed three people. [96]
0–9. Tornado outbreak of April 1880; Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; Tornado outbreak of April 9, 1919
From 2000 to 2023, only two tornadoes - both EF4s - have claimed the lives of people sheltering in a school - the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado and the 2007 Enterprise, Alabama, tornado that ...
The tornado entered Parnell, where roofs were damaged and garages destroyed before the tornado crossed Arkansas 89 and destroyed a mobile home. After this, the tornado entered primarily rural areas, while damaging more homes and trees, before crossing AR 321 and lifting. The tornado was responsible for $90 million of direct property damage.
In the evening of April 27, 2014, a large and destructive EF4 tornado moved through several communities northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas.The tornado, which was part of a larger outbreak of severe weather across the central and southern United States, devastated the towns of Paron, Mayflower, Lake Conway, Vilonia, and El Paso, killing sixteen people and injuring over one hundred more.
Fire crews were battling several blazes near El Dorado, Kansas, and some residents were asked to evacuate, including about 250 elementary school children who were relocated to a high school.
The 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado was a large and destructive rain-wrapped wedge tornado that struck the city of Wynne, and caused additional damage in or around the communities of Parkin, Earle, Turrell, and Drummonds in Arkansas and Tennessee on the afternoon of March 31, 2023. The tornado caused considerable damage to Wynne and significant to ...