The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America’s Greatest Tornado Disaster

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The Tri-State Tornado is a gripping account of the worst tornado disaster in American history. Claiming 689 lives all through a three-hour rampage across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925, the storm had one of the vital longest uninterrupted paths (219 miles) and one of the vital widest (as much as one mile) of any recorded tornado. Its continuous energy used to be so extreme that it completely obliterated a couple of small towns in its path. Despite the fact that the fatality count used to be nearly that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, apart from meteorologists and residents of the affected area, few had ever heard of this catastrophe until this book’s initial release in 1992.The Tri-State Tornado reconstructs the tragedy, the usage of vivid eyewitness accounts of fourteen survivors who lived along the tornado’s path from the Missouri Ozarks to southwestern Indiana. The clarity with which they recall that day of their lives over sixty years in advance will give readers the unsettling feeling that the tornado struck days, not decades, ago.

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