Tornado outbreaks were among the nation’s costliest ... in U.S. history was an EF-5 twister that killed 695 people in 1925. The country was lucky to escape a high death toll in 2024, said ...
Most of Gorham and much of Murphysboro had been destroyed just 32 years earlier by the 1925 Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest and longest-tracked tornado in U.S. history. The 21 twisters spawned ...