Listed below are confirmed killer tornadoes listed by date in
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois, also known as Little Egypt, is the southern third of Illinois, principally along and south of Interstate 64. Although part of a Midwestern United States, Midwestern state, this region is aligned in culture more with that of th ...
, United States. Modern record keeping in the region began in the 1880s, although there were undoubtedly many other deaths that have been lost to history. It is important to note that before the 1950s tornadoes were not officially ranked. The current rankings are an estimation due to the accounts of witnesses.
Southern Illinois tornadoes by death toll
See also
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Climate of Illinois
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List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in North America.
#''The listing is U.S.-centric, with greater and more consistent information available for U.S. tornadoes. Some North Americ ...
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St. Louis tornado history
The St. Louis metropolitan area has a history of tornadoes. The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in ...
References
External links
The Tri-State Tornado(The Tornado Project)
1925 Tri-State Tornado(NWS Paducah, Kentucky)
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ttps://web.archive.org/web/20081016135615/http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfrankl/subjects/tornado.htm The Great Tri-State Tornado(RootsWeb Genealogy)
Newspaper Coverage of the Tri-State Tornado Ravage of Murphysboro(NIU Library)
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Popular Mechanics
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The 1925 Tornado(Carolyar.com Genealogy)
;Books
* ''The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America's Greatest Tornado Disaster'', by Peter S. Felknor. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1992. 131 pages. .
* ''The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-state Tornado of 1925'', by Wallace E. Akin. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2002. 173 pages. .
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