It hit nine towns and the only one I remember the name of was Gorham which was completely destroyed by the tornado.
The Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925. The tornado killed 695 people, 613 of them in Illinois.
Tornadoes do not get official names as hurricanes do. They are sometimes, however, given informal names, usually for the places they hit. The worst of the tornadoes of March 18, 1925 is almost universally known as the Tri-State Tornado.
The deadliest tornado to hit the U.S. tore across portions of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925, killing 695 people.
No particularly historic tornadoes occurred on March 3, 1925.However, the Tri-State tornado occurred on March 18, 1925. It was the deadliest U.S. tornado, but not the most destructive. That tornado hit portions of eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana.Until recently, the tornado most widely attributed as the most destructive in history was on May 3, 1999 in the Oklahoma City metro area. However, since then the title of most destructive tornado has gone to the one that hit Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011.
The deadliest tornado to hit the U.S. occurred on the afternoon of March 18, 1925. This tornado tore across parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. It is known as the Tri-state tornado.
The worst tornado in U.S. history was the Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925. The tornado first formed north of Ellington, Missouri. The tornado devastated numerous towns in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana along a path 219 miles long.
The worst tornado in U.S. history was the Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925. This F5 tornado carved a 219 mile damage path across parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 and injuring over 2,000.
The Town of Henryville, Indiana was hit by an EF4 tornado on March 2, 2012.
The longest-lived and farthest traveling tornado was the world in the US, but not in the world. It was the Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925, which hit portions of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The worst tornado on record in the world was the Daulatpur-Saturia tornado, which struck central Bangladesh on April 26, 1989.
Hammon was hit by an EF2 tornado on March 8, 2010.
Yes, tornadoes are fairly common in Illinois. In fact, Illinois was worst hit by the Tri-State tornado of 1925, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history.