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The 1990 Plainfield tornado was a devastating tornado that occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 28, 1990. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. [1] It is the only F5/EF5 rated tornado ever officially recorded in August in the United States (unofficially the 1883 Rochester, Minnesota cyclone is considered an F5), and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area.
Website. pchs.psd202.org. Plainfield High School - Central Campus, or PHS-CC, is a four-year public high school in Plainfield, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202, which also includes three other high schools: Plainfield South High School ...
A brief F1 tornado caused minimal damage in Mason City, [42] and an F3 tornado hit the crossroads of Illinois Routes 154 – 150, damaging six homes and causing $250,000 (1957 USD) in damages. [43] An F2 tornado moved for 4.5 miles across Jefferson County, deroofing multiple buildings and injuring two people. [44]
In the Plainfield and Foster tornado's path, a heavy, large trailer was pushed about 50 feet (15 meters), according to the service. That twister touched down intermittently for 6 miles (9 kilometers).
Plainfield is a village in Will and Kendall counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 44,762 at the 2020 census. The village includes land in Will County's Plainfield and Wheatland townships, as well as Na-Au-Say and Oswego townships in Kendall County. With the growth in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s, the village has ...
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.
Hail up to baseball size and a confirmed tornado were reported in some parts of North Texas as the region was under a severe thunderstorm watch Thursday night.. The largest hailstones, ranging ...
The tornado was on the ground for about 0.3 mi (0.48 km) before lifting. [27] September 7, 1998 – A line of thunderstorms ahead of a cold front spawned two tornadoes in Union County. An F0 was on the ground for 0.2 mi (0.32 km) in a populated section of Plainfield. The tornado knocked down 95 trees and caused $1.5 million in damage.