One hundred years ago, a catastrophic tornado ripped through three states, leveling whole towns and killing nearly 700 people. It remains the worst tornado in U.S. history. Called the Tri-State ...

Above: Damage from an F4 tornado that tore through the heart of Omaha, Nebraska, on Easter Sunday 1913 (March 23). It was part of the worst tornado outbreak on record for eastern Nebraska and ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Tuesday marks 100 years since the deadliest tornado in recorded U.S. history cut a 219-mile path of destruction Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, claiming the lives of 695 people.

May 20, 2013, marks the last time the United States was hit by the worst type of tornado. On that date, a monster EF5 tornado tore a 17-mile path through the Oklahoma City suburbs, creating "40 ...

Monday, May 23, 2011 after it was damaged by a tornado that destroyed nearly 30 percent of the town on Sunday afternoon.

The official forecast on March 18, 1925, for parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana called for “rains and strong shifting winds.” There were no tornado warnings or watches, not even severe ...

Tuesday will mark a somber anniversary, as 100 years have passed since the deadliest tornado in U.S. history devastated several states. On March 18, 1925, the “Tri-State Tornado” tore a path ...

Martha Waters saw the truck come down the road just as the sky blackened. Within seconds it was airborne, turned upside down in heaving winds that swirled in every direction. From the windows ...

Winter is rarely a bed of roses, and 1925 had been a particularly rough one. A late January blizzard had dumped up to 4 feet of snow in some parts of the Northeast. In Alaska, a diphtheria ...

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