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Part of the 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak and tornadoes of 1997. On May 27, 1997, an extremely violent multi-vortex tornado struck the community of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people and injuring a further 12. [ 1 ] The tornado caused $40.1 million (1997 USD) in damages and was the subject of multiple well-known photographs, earning the ...
The name Tillamook, he says, is of Chinook origin, and refers to the people of a locality known as Elim or Kelim. They spoke Tillamook, a combination of two dialects. Tillamook culture differed from that of the northern Coast Salish, Boas says, and might have been influenced by tribal cultures to the south, in what is now northern California. [5]
Tillamook people. The Tillamook are a Native American tribe from coastal Oregon of the Salish linguistic group. The name "Tillamook" is a Chinook language term meaning "people of [the village] Nekelim (or Nehalem)", [1] sometimes it is given as a Coast Salish term, meaning "Land of Many Waters". The Tillamook tribe consists of several divisions ...
The 1900 Galveston hurricane, [ 1 ] also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, [ 2 ][ 3 ] is the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. [ 4 ] The strongest storm of the 1900 Atlantic hurricane season, it left between 6,000 and 12,000 ...
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The Tillamook Burn was a series of forest fires in the Northern Oregon Coast Range of Oregon in the United States that destroyed a total area of 350,000 acres (140,000 hectares) of old growth timber in what is now known as the Tillamook State Forest. There were four wildfires in this series, which spanned the years of 1933–1951.
Texas: April 9: Unknown Unknown 1,760 yd (1,610 m)♯ Unknown 1 death – This large multiple-vortex event bypassed several farms in the area, reportedly debarking trees in open country. A railway signal station was blown away and a railcar knocked off its track. Several tornadoes were observed, one of which was up to 1 mi (1.6 km) wide.
Black Sunday is a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl in the United States. [ 1 ] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and caused immense economic and agricultural damage. [ 2 ] It is estimated that 300 thousand tons of topsoil were displaced from the prairie area.