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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 ...
1969 Hazlehurst, Mississippi tornadoes: January 23, 1969: Southeastern United States: 3: 32 fatalities: Devastating pre-dawn F4 tornado hit Hazlehurst and other towns, killing 32 people on a long path across southern Mississippi. (2 significant, 1 violent killer) [95] Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1969: June 21–26, 1969: Midwestern United ...
It is also known as the 1969 Minnesota tornado outbreak and the 1969 North Woods tornado outbreak. The most destructive tornado of the outbreak was a 33-mile-long (53 km) violent F4 that leveled miles of timberland and farmland across portions of Crow Wing, Cass, and Aitkin counties in Minnesota, killing at least 12 people and injuring 70 others.
1 Number of tornadoes in United States by year and intensity. 2 See also. 3 References. ... 1969: 608 0 195 218 139 49 7 0 1970: 653 0 164 253 191 36 8 1 1971: 889 0 188
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 ...
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...
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.
A famous photo of an F4 tornado in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. Tornadoes are among the most violent known meteorological phenomena. Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes are recorded worldwide, with the vast majority occurring in North America and Europe.