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The longest-lasting and farthest traveling tornado was the Tri-State tornado of 1925. This tornado tore a 219-mile-long path of devastation from near Ellington, Missouri, across southern Illinois, to near Petersburg, Indiana. Numerous towns in between were hit. Several were completely destroyed.

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