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The damage. This was a very strong tornado. It was an F5 on the Fujita Scale.
This is a map on from were the tornado started on till were it ended.
As you can see here is that the Tri-State Tornado was 3 tornados in 1.
"Tri-State Tornado" had killed 695 people and
injured 2,027, this tornado traveled more than 300 miles through Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. This happened March 18, 1925. It was rated an F5 at the top of the old Fujita scale with winds of 260-plus mph." says CNN.com
Facts :The Tri-State Tornado occurred on Wednesday, March 18th in 1925.The damage was was at least at $16.5M and in 2011 adjusted dollars that is exactly $1.4B. 13 counties in the three states were affected. In Illinois Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, White and Williamson counties were affected. In Indiana Gibson, Pike and Posey counties were in affect. In Missouri Bollinger, Iron, Madison, Perry and Reynolds counties were affected too. For more facts click here -->Tornado facts. This tornado ruined some schools and they called out I don't know what schools were ruined.
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