MISSOURI – The Great Tri-State Tornado, the longest tracked F5 tornado in U.S. history, devastated Southeast Missouri, Illinois, and Southwest Indiana on March 18, 1925, leaving a trail of ...

Tornado classifications have evolved since the original Fujita (F scale) was developed in 1971. Under the original F scale, an F5 rating was given as follows: “Whole frame houses tossed off ...

On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado tore a 202-mile long path across central and eastern Mississippi into western Alabama. Of the 58 people killed by the twister, 57 were in ...