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This was one of the most intense December outbreaks in the Contiguous United States and the most intense Illinois tornado outbreak in any month. An F4 tornado struck Mt. Vernon, Illinois, an F5 tornado obliterated Sunfield, Illinois, and a long-tracked F4 struck several towns hit by the 1925 Tri-State tornado. An additional F4 tornado hit ...
On August 28, 1969, a strong tornado struck Tianjin. Large hail also fell in Beijing that day. The next day, a supercell produced one of the most violent tornadoes in Chinese history in Hebei Province That evening. The tornado first devastated a small city in the Province around 7:30 PM, where numerous structures were obliterated and 98 people ...
Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, including the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957 and the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 5 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually. [1]
The tornado destroyed 75 buildings, including 55 homes, in Clinton with some small homes blown away. Grazulis: March 27: 1890 United States: Missouri, Illinois: Shawneetown (Missouri), Grand Tower, Poplar Ridge, Carbondale (Illinois) 7 (80 injuries) Tornado outbreak of March 27, 1890 – Homes were leveled and swept away. Twenty-seven homes ...
Tornadoes reports have come in from Illinois to Arkansas. See storm reports on an updated map. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896; 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado; Tornado outbreak of April 29 – May 1, 1909; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; 1925 Tri-State tornado; Tri-State tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 1927; Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927; Tornado outbreak of March 16–17, 1942
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
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 ...