The Tri State Tornado: A Natural Disaster

Based on this, the tornado was absolutely massive. Also, it had been reported that when the tornado “crossed the Mississippi...local witnesses said the river was ‘swept dry’...” (Douglas, Paul). This tornado was really a force to be reckoned with. In the end, the Sauk Rapids tornado lasted only about thirteen minutes, but devastatingly “killed 72 people and injured more than 200 and caused over $400,000 in damages. In 2015 dollars, that would be roughly $10.4 million dollars” (NWS Des Moines). All of this is why the Sauk Rapids tornado became known as the deadliest tornado ever in Minnesota history.

Introduction: Tornadoes are the most violent storms that usually form in thunderstorms. A tornado is a rotating, funnel shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground. Did you know that tornado winds can get up to 300 miles per hour? If you didn’t, you are in for a treat.

For starters, heavyweight tornadoes are very dangerous and can destroy multiple belongings at one time. They usually happen in states that don't have hills. The max of tornadoes commonly occur in North America, and about 1,300 of them hit the U.S. each year. However, colossal hurricanes cause lots of floods, and they most often happen in warm places. They must have substantial rotating winds at at least 74 mph to be in a hurricane.

An Ef-5 tornado is one that causes “Incredible damage. Strong frame houses leveled off foundations and swept away; automobile-sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters (109 yds); trees debarked; incredible phenomena will occur” (NOAA, 2011).

Since the beginning of time there have been countless weather disasters, which include hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. Comparable to other natural disasters, there is a great deal of severe damage to properties, businesses and unfortunately loss of life. There were a total of 422 tornadoes throughout the country in 1953. Texas has endured a multitude of disastrous storms; however on May 11, 1953 there was a particular storm that forever transformed a city called Waco, Texas known as 1953 Waco Tornado.

Tri-State Tornado; March 18th, 1925 a major fatality happened. A tornado happens when moist and dry air create a funnel,which turns into a tornado. The Tri-State Tornado happened three miles Northeast of Ellington, Missouri and made its way through Illinois and Indiana. More than 13,000 people were injured and 585-695 people died. This devastation was hard to recover from. In this project we are going to see which out of History Channel and US Tornadoes tells me more about the Tri-State Tornado.

May 3rd, 1999 is day that bore witness to one of the strongest spectacles of weather that mankind has ever seen. The storm is one of the largest, and deadliest, tornados in history. The definition of a tornado is "a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system". A tornado is rated on a Fujita-Pearson scale which takes into account, overall damage reports, ground swirl patterns, as well as eyewitness and media accounts of the

Reasons why the Tri-State Tornado is Interesting. This tornado did seventeen million dollars of damage when it went through three states. The tornado was about one mile wide, had wind speeds of 300mph, traveled 219 miles, and traveled at a speed of 70mph average. It’s the deadliest tornado in America and second deadliest in the world. These are some pretty interesting things about a tornado and you don’t hear that all the

My class just read Night of the Twisters which was a series of bad tornados, speaking of tornados, the worst recorded was the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. The Tri-State Tornado included details common to tornados and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region, but the area has recovered in its aftermath.

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that spins while in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. This is what hit a little town called Greensburg Kansas, no bigger than 785 people. The tornado ripped through the town like a child goes through their present on Christmas morning. From this day on Greensburg will never be the same, dreams and hopes scattered everywhere. But, Greensburg came back and hit the tornado back by trying to become the “Greenest Town in America”.

The month of April in 2011 holds the record of being the deadliest tornado series in the South, Midwest, and Northeast parts of the United States. Mississippi and Alabama was effected the most during this occurrence. A total of 320 deaths caused by tornadoes took place, including about 240 in Alabama alone. With four of the tornadoes measured to be EF5, Dr. Greg Forbes- Weather Channel’s current Severe Weather Expert- categorized this as a super outbreak.

On May 22, 2011, Joplin, MO was hit by one of the deadliest tornadoes recorded since 1947. Growing to a category EF-5, and tearing a path of nearly a mile wide, the tornado claimed 161 lives, and roughly 7,500 homes and 500 businesses were either damaged or destroyed. The estimated damage was nearly $3 billion, the highest ever for a tornado in the United States. Lives were lost, many people lost everything they had, and yet they would still stay to pick up the pieces and rebuild. The area of tornado alley in the United States expects this type of natural disaster, and is always prepared, however predicting tornadoes intensity can be extremely difficult since one can never tell what a tornado is going to do next.

The "Woodward Tornado" across of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on April 9, 1947. The storm killed 181 people and injured 970.

     A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes can produce massive destruction with wind speeds of 250 miles per hour or more. The typical tornado moves from southwest to northeast, but they have been known to move in any direction. The average forward speed of a tornado is 30 miles per hour but it may vary from stationary to 70 miles per hour. Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, they are found most frequently in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains during the spring and summer months. In an average year, 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in 80 deaths and over 1,500 injuries.

The damage from tornadoes comes from the strong winds they contain. It is generally believed that tornado wind speeds can be as high as three hundred miles per hour in most violent tornadoes. Wind speeds that high can cause automobiles to become airborne, rip ordinary homes to shreds, and turn broken glass and other debris into lethal missiles. The biggest threat to living creatures, including humans, from tornadoes is from flying debris and from being tossed about in the wind. It used to be believed that the low pressure in a tornado contributed to the damage by making buildings "explode" but this is no longer believed to be true.