The 1925 Tri-State Tornado is the deadliest and longest track tornado on record. The tornado touched down a little after 1:00 p.m. on March 18, 1925 near Ellington, Missouri. A long three and a half hours and 219 miles later, the tornado the tornado lifted southwest of Petersburg, Indiana. Left in it's wake was a path of incredible destruction, 695 lives lost, and more than 2,000 injuries.
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| Figure from Wilson, John W., and Stanley A. Changnon, Jr. (1971). Illinois Tornadoes. Circular 103. Illinois State Water Survey: Urbana-Champaign, IL. | |
For weeks I have been planning to write a post about this event, and in doing so came across an amazing NOAA/NWS web page(s) assembled and maintained by the NWS Paducah, KY office. This web page has all the facts and information you could ever want on this tornado, including dozens of photographs of damage along the path, on overview of the weather situation that day (this was long before we knew much about tornadoes), eyewitness accounts, and a list of amazing statistics about this storm. No need for me to re-invent the wheel.
One of the coolest things about this web page is an interactive map (which you can open to full-screen) that allows you to explore information about individual damage points along the tornado's path.
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| Interactive map from Tri-State Tornado page on the NWS Paducah web site |
To view this web page and to learn more about this historic storm, visit the 1925 Tri-State Tornado web page.
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