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The tornado season of 1985 saw very little action in the winter months, and even the spring wasn't particularly notable until the massive May 31 outbreak, one of the most intense and deadliest in modern American history, which saw 44 tornadoes kill 88 people in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, Canada.
The 1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak, referred to as the Barrie tornado outbreak in Canada, was a major tornado outbreak that occurred in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, on May 31, 1985.
1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak: May 31, 1985: U.S. – Canadian Eastern Great Lakes: 44: 90 fatalities: Unusual tornado outbreak was among the most intense recorded, the largest such outbreak in the region. Violent tornadoes devastated towns in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario. Long-track tornado produced F5 damage in ...
By all accounts, May 31, 1985, was a hot and humid, but typical, Friday in Beaver County. With an eye on the weekend, people worked, shopped, ran errands while children played outside in the ...
A devastating, multi-day tornado outbreak leveled entire neighborhoods and businesses starting Friday, upending lives across several states in the American Heartland.
May 31, 1985 – An F4 tornado downed trees and power lines in Ashtabula County before moving into Erie County in Pennsylvania. The tornado would go on to kill 12 people in Cranesville, Pennsylvania. A strong F3 tornado damaged over 40 homes in Bundysburg, and several vehicles were heavily damaged.
The last time was May 31, 1985, when an EF5 tornado through Portage and Trumbull counties claimed 10 lives. There were 10 other tornadoes in Ohio that day. Ohio's tornado history: What to do if ...
The Barrie tornado formed from the northernmost of this pair of supercells, was the final member of a long-lived tornado family, and may have consisted of three separate, short-tracked tornadoes. [5] It formed in southern Simcoe County ( Essa Township ), less than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Highway 400 and the Barrie city limits.