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The 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that hit the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States on June 22–23, 1944. The outbreak produced several strong tornadoes in Pennsylvania , West Virginia , and Maryland —areas that were falsely believed to be immune to tornadoes. [ 1 ]
The deadliest tornado in world history was the Daulatpur–Saturia tornado in Bangladesh on April 26, 1989, which killed approximately 1,300 people. [1] In the history of Bangladesh, at least 24 tornadoes killed more than 100 people each, almost half of the total for the world [2].
That figure is inflated somewhat by 2011, when one of the costliest and deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded claimed the lives of at least 553 people, including more than 150 in one Missouri ...
Registering F5 on the Fujita scale, it remains the Easternmost recorded F5 in United States history, [7] the only F5 in Pennsylvania history, [8] the last F5 in Ohio to date, and was also the most violent tornado reported in the United States in 1985. [9] It first touched down in Ohio near the Ravenna Arsenal in Portage County around 6:30 PM EDT.
Deadliest tornado in New Jersey history. Great Natchez Tornado: May 7, 1840: Southeastern United States >1: 317+ fatalities, 109+ injuries: Second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history September 1845 New York outbreak: September 20, 1845: New York, Vermont >5 – Multiple long-track tornadoes crossed upstate New York
More than 1,000 tornadoes sprout up across the US in the average year, causing billions of dollars in damage and killing scores of Americans. Track them here.
The single deadliest tornado in U.S. history was an EF-5 twister that killed 695 people in 1925. The country was lucky to escape a high death toll in 2024, said Harold Brooks, a senior scientist ...