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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]
Outbreak produced seven estimated F4 tornadoes. The worst of the damage and most of the fatalities took place in Georgia. (15 significant, 7 violent, 12 killer) May 1875 Southeast tornado outbreak: May 1, 1875: Southeastern United States – 58 fatalities, 195 injuries: Included several long-tracked, (estimated) F3 tornado families. (1 violent ...
List of tornadoes in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966; 1967 St. Louis tornado outbreak; 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 1968; Tornado outbreak of April 17–19, 1970; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 10–16, 1970; List of tornadoes in the 1974 Super Outbreak; 1974 Super Outbreak
Weekend storm caused one of worst traffic jams in Cleveland's history. (AP Photo) Units of the 112th engineers of the Ohio National Guard use shovels to help free snow bound streets of Cleveland ...
Over 70 mobile generators were brought in from around the country to help restore power in what was the largest deployment in London's history. [ 114 ] October 30—New Zealand—At around 8:00 am local time, power was cut to the whole of Northland and most of the northern half of Auckland, affecting 280,000 customers (14.5% of the country).
The fall season saw fewer tornadoes with the exception of a moderate outbreak in November. The killer F4 tornado that struck Piedmont, Alabama on Palm Sunday (a date of infamous tornado outbreaks in 1965 and 1920) killed 22 people, the most since the 1990 Plainfield, Illinois tornado .
Locally known as 'Black Friday,' it was the largest tornado outbreak of 1967 and has been described by NWS Chicago as "Northern Illinois' worst tornado disaster". [2] The outbreak produced numerous and significant (F2+) tornadoes, with ten of them in Illinois alone.
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