Natural and Man-Made Disasters,
Historical Natural Disasters
Historical Tornadoes
Significant Tornado Events:
Historical American Tornadic Events

Definition: Tornado: 1 archaic : a tropical thunderstorm; 2 a : a squall accompanying a thunderstorm in Africa; b : a violent destructive whirling wind accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud that progresses in a narrow path over the land; 3 : a violent windstorm; WHIRLWIND -- Tornado Fujita scale

1840	May 6	Natchez, Mississippi:	tornado struck heart of the city, killing 317 and injuring over 1,000.
1880	April 18	Marshfield, Montana:	a series of 24 tornadoes demolished city, killing 99 people.
1884	Feb. 19	Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana:	series of 60 tornadoes caused estimated 800 deaths.
1890	March 27	Louisville, Kentucky:	twister hit community and caused 76 deaths.
1896	May 27	eastern Montana and southern Illinois:	series of 18 tornadoes; 1 tornado destroyed large section of St. Louis, Montana, killing 255.
1899	June 12	New Richmond, Wisconsin:	tornado struck while circus was in town, causing 117 deaths.
1902	May 18	Goliad, Texas:	tornado killed 114.
1903	June 1	Gainesville, Holland, Georgia:	twister caused 98 deaths.
1905	May 10	Snyder, Oklahoma:	tornado killed 97.
1908	April 24-25	Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia:	18 tornadoes resulted in 310 deaths (143 of these caused by 1 tornado that moved from Amite, Louisiana, to Purvis, Mississippi).
1908	April 24	Natchez, Mississippi:	twister struck, causing 91 deaths.
1913	March 23	eastern Nebraska and western Iowa:	Easter Sunday, 8 tornadoes resulted in 181 deaths (94 in Omaha, Nebraska).
1917	May 26	Mattoon, Illinois:	tornado smashed area, causing 101 deaths.
1920	April 20	Starkville, Mississippi; Waco, Alabama:	tornado killed 88.
1924	June 28	Lorain, Sandusky, Ohio:	tornado swept through cities, causing 85 deaths.
1925	March 18	Montana, Illinois, Indiana:	the "Tri-State Tornado" was the most violent single twister in U.S. history. It caused the deaths of 689 people and injured over 2,000. Property damage was estimated at $16.5 million.
1927	May 9	Poplar Bluff, Montana:	twister killed 98. Sept. 29, St. Louis, Montana: a five-minute tornado ripped through the city and caused 79 deaths.
1932	March 21-22	Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee:	an outbreak of 33 tornadoes killed 334 (268 in Alabama).
1936	April 5-6	Deep South:	a series of 17 tornadoes; 216 killed in Tupelo, Mississippi, and 203 killed in Gainesville, Georgia, a small mill town that was obliterated.
1944	June 23	West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland:	4 tornadoes caused 153 deaths.
1947	April 9	Woodward, Oklahoma:	tornado demolished town, killing 181.
1952	March 21-22	Arkansas and Tennessee:	28 tornadoes caused 204 deaths.
1953	May 11	Waco, Texas:	a single tornado killed 114.
1953	June 8	Flint, Michigan:	tornado killed 116.
1953	June 9	Worcester, Massachusettes:	tornado hit town, causing 90 deaths.
1955	May 25	Udall, Kans.:	tornado killed 80.
1965	April 11-12	Midwest-Great Lakes region:	tornadoes in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin caused 256 deaths.
1967	April 21	northern Illinois, also Montana, Iowa, lower Michigan:	series of 52 tornadoes caused 58 deaths.
1971	Feb. 21	Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee:	series of 10 tornadoes resulted in 121 deaths.
1974	April 3-4	13 States:	A series of 148 twisters within 16 hours comprised the deadly "Super Tornado Outbreak" that struck 13 states in the East, South, and Midwest. Before it was over, 330 died and 5,484 were injured in a damage path covering more than 2,500 mi.
1979	April 10	northern Texas and southern Oklahoma:	11 tornadoes caused 59 deaths.
1984	March 28	North Carolina and South Carolina:	22 tornadoes caused 57 deaths.
1985	May 31	Pennsylvania and Ohio:	27 tornadoes resulted in 756 deaths. Estimated damages were $450 million.
1990	Aug. 28	northern Illinois:	fast-moving tornado struck the southwest suburbs of Chicago, killing 29 and injuring more than 300.
1992	Nov. 21-23	southeast Texas to Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley:	total of 94 tornadoes caused 26 deaths and $291 million in damage.
1994	March 27	Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina:	Palm Sunday tornado outbreak resulted in 42 deaths, 320 injuries, and $107 million in property damage. Twenty people died and 90 were injured when a tornado caused the roof of a church near Piedmont, Alabama, to collapse.
1997	May 27	central Texas:	multiple tornadoes, including one particularly strong twister that devastated the town of Jarrell, caused 29 deaths and an estimated $20 million in damage.
1999	Jan. 17-22	Tennessee and Arkansas:	a series of tornadoes left 17 dead. Damages were estimated at $1.3 billion
1999	May 3	Oklahoma and Kans.:	unusually large twister, thought to have been a mile wide at times, killed 44 people and injured at least 748 others in Oklahoma A separate tornado killed another 5 and injured about 150 in Kansas. Damages totaled at least $1 billion.
2000	Feb. 14	southwest Georgia:	at least 5 tornadoes struck southwest Georgia, killing 19 people and injuring over 100.
2002	Nov. 9-11	central and southeast U.S.:	series of more than 70 tornadoes across 9 states from Mississippi to Pennsylvania killed 36 people
2003	May 1-10	southern and midwestern U.S.:	a record-breaking number of more than 400 tornadoes in the first 10 days of May killed 42.
2006	March-April	plains, Tenn, and Ohio valley, U.S.:	more than 500 tornadoes killed 47 people in the 2-month period.