Tri-State Tornado, 1925

By: Taylor Budwash.

Missouri, Illionis, & Indiana• Illionois nickname is the Prairie State

As of 2008, the population of Illionis was 12,901,563.

1925The New Yorker publishes it’s first

issue.

Hairstyles in 1925

• Year of the scope monkey trial.

TRI-STATE TORNADO

•Killed 695 people•Destroyed 15,000 homes

•Tornado lasted 3.5 hours•Rode across 219 miles of land

• Longest tornado track in world• Tornadoes were unpredictable in 1925

•Damage track was f2 intensity•Deadliest tornado in U.S history

• Total damage was about $18 million • Deadliest, longest twister

•Highest 73 mph•Appeared as rolling mass of boiling clouds

Tornadoes

• Powerful rotating columns of air that reach the ground.

•Tornado alley has more tornadoes than anywhere in the world

• Three different types of tornadoes• Weak, strong, violent

•Weak tornadoes are waterspout tornadoes that form on water.

•Tornadoes form when polar air meet with hot tropical air

• Fujita scale determines the intensity of the tornado.

• F0- F5