Tri-State Tornado 1925 USA

An approx scale CGI animation of The Great Tri-State Tornado March 18, 1925 ,Deadliest Tornado in U.S. History
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The Great Tri-State Tornado

At approximately 1:00 pm on March 18, 1925 an extremely violent and long lived tornado touched down near the town of Ellington Missouri. During the next three and a half hours, the storm would travel over 200 miles while destroying everything in it's path.

At the end of the day, thousands were injured and 695 people were killed by the monster making it, by far, the deadliest tornado in US History.



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Presumably an EF-5, the storm is in the history books and holds many records including the deadliest and the longest lived tornado. It also has the longest continuous damage path at 219 miles!
To put this into perspective, the Henryville EF-4 tornado from March 2, 2012 was on the ground continuously for 49 miles.
The devastation from the storm was staggering. More than a mile wide at times, it swallowed many towns whole and completely wiped out several communities!
The storm touched down in Southeast Missouri and traveled very quickly to the northeast tearing a path through Southern Illinois and into Southwest Indiana.
Murpheysboro, Illinois was the hardest hit by the storm with 234 lives lost. This stands as the most fatalities in one city by a single tornado on record.
The storm moved at a frenzied pace averaging an astonishing 62 mph during it's three and a half hour rampage across three states.
At one point, the storm was caluculated to have traveled at an unbelievable 73 mph as it raced from Gorham, IL to Murphysboro!
Read first-hand accounts of the storm courtesy the Paducah NWS here.
The Tri-State Tornado was a part of a larger outbreak of tornadoes that occurred that day across portions of Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.
Including the other tornadoes that occurred day, at least 747 people were killed and 2,298 were injured. This makes the Tri-State Outbreak the deadliest tornado outbreak, March 18 the deadliest tornado day, and 1925 the tornado year in U.S. History!
Several of these other tornadoes occurred across parts of Kentuckiana including an EF-4 and an EF-3 in Louisville! You can see details on the local outbreak here... Kentuckiana March 18, 1925 tornado outbreak