Date: March 18, 1925
Deaths: 695Injured: 13,000
Damage Cost: $17 Million
Facts:
Tri-State Tornado is the worst tornado in the U.S.
The town of Griffin, Indiana was wiped out.
Tornado was a mile wide.
Tornado was a mile wide.
Around 1p.m. outside of Ellington, Missouri an F5 tornado (the worst on tornado scale) rips through southeast Missouri, southern Illinois and southwest Indiana. Recorded as the deadliest tornado in U.S. history the Tri-State Tornado is also the longest tornado track with 219 miles(NOAA.) The huge tornado was on the ground for three hours with winds faster than 70mph, taring up towns, injuring and killing people. In roughly 40 minutes 541 people were killed and 1,423 injured in Illinois.
Due to radar and satellite imagery not being invented residents received little if any warning of the disastrous storm heading towards them. In fact "Tornado Watch" and "Tornado Warning" were never heard of. NOAA claims that "even if a watch/warning program were in place, the message would have never been disseminated in such a fashion to give people the necessary lead time to seek shelter."
Quotes from NOAA:
"The handful of unscathed citizens from Griffen and surroundings districts were confronted with destruction so complete that some could only guess where they had once lived."
-Mr. Felknor
Griffin, Indiana
"Then the air was filled with 10,000 things. Boards, poles, cans, garments, stoves, whole sides of the little frames houses, in some cases the houses themselves, were picked up and smashed to earth. And living beings, too. A baby was blown from its mother's arms. A cow, picked up by the wind, was hurled into the village restaurant."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper
March 20, 1925
Griffin, Indiana
"Then the air was filled with 10,000 things. Boards, poles, cans, garments, stoves, whole sides of the little frames houses, in some cases the houses themselves, were picked up and smashed to earth. And living beings, too. A baby was blown from its mother's arms. A cow, picked up by the wind, was hurled into the village restaurant."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper
March 20, 1925
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