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Tri-State Tornado 1925. By: Sarah Burry, Autumn Brown And Zach Gallant. Classification Category. Atmospheric Classified as a F5 tornado The highest rating given on the Fujita scale. Natural Hazard Events. Date: Wednesday, March 18 th , 1925
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Tri-State Tornado 1925 By: Sarah Burry, Autumn Brown And Zach Gallant
Classification Category • Atmospheric • Classified as a F5 tornado • The highest rating given on the Fujita scale
Natural Hazard Events • Date: Wednesday, March 18th, 1925 • Location: The tornado crossed from southeastern Missouri, through Southern Illinois, then into southwestern Indiana.
Consequences and Aftermath of Hazard • Damage were $16.5 million, $1.4 billion when you account for inflation • Nine schools across three states were destroyed, killing sixty nine students • 15,000 homes were damaged • The tornado also affected Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas and other states
Potential Natural Hazard • Illinois has 35 tornadoes a year on average • Missouri has 26 tornadoes a year on average • Indiana has 20 tornadoes a year on average • In total: 81 tornadoes between 3 states on average
Total • Population: 115,829,000 in US • Deaths: 695 • Injures: 2027
Tri-State Tornado 1925 COMPARING AND ANALYZING
Frequency: • The tri-state tornado was part of a larger tornado out break consisting of eight other tornadoes
Duration: • 3.5 hours
Extent: • Larger area
Speed of onset: • They saw it coming, but they didn’t realize it was going to be as bad as it was till it hit
Spatial Dispersion: • The three states would be likely to be affected by this particular event • The demographic receives many tornadoes a year on average • Most times, tornadoes occur in outbreaks, not just a single tornado
Temporal Spacing: • It started with showers and cooling temperatures (nothing strange) • The forecast was tracking a cold, lower-pressure system that bent down from western Canada into Wyoming. • The jet stream wasn’t discovered until World War II by Japanese scientists.
Work Cited • Hearst Communications. (July 31, 2007) There’s never been another tornado like it.Retrieved October 20th 2009, from http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/worst_case_scenarios/4219867.html • google