Here are the cities : Annapolis, MO 10:58 Biehle, MO 31:41 Gorham, IL 40:04 Murphysboro, IL 43:38 West Frankfort, IL 56:43 Griffin, IN 1:22:20 Owensville, IN 1:26:35 Princeton, IN 1:30:00
My dad was 15 when this stuck. He didn’t lose his dad in the actual tornado but he was killed in the aftermath of it when helping in the clean up and a tree fell on him;( They lived in Griffin,Indiana at the time.
True. I believe the tri state tornado in Indiana was moving at nearly 75 miles per hour which I think is the world record for fastest forward velocity of a tornado.
The video is 1 hour and 37 minutes. That's HALF the time the tornado was on the ground, which was 3.5 hours. So while the speed seems deceptive, you're actually moving in this playback about 120 mph. Kind of like when you're in a commercial jet, looking at the jet's shadow on the ground. It looks like it's moving slow, only that shadow moves at the same speed the jet does, 825 feet per second!
From 1:02:00 to 1:17:00 on this video. the tri state tornado was at it's peak width of 1.5 miles. It's enormous size and the lack of any warnings of tornado producing weather possible made this tornado the deadliest in United states history.
The double funnel displayed by this tornado at Biehle, Missouri on March 18, 1925 before becoming even more dangerous, deadlier, and more destructive in southern Illinois seems similar to the March 13, 1990 Hesston - Goessel, Kansas F5, one storm system, two funnels, a main tornado and its satellite merging together into a gigantic monster.
Blair's Creek To Ellington: "An awful Commotion Plunging across the Land" "Purple Blackness" Annapolis, Mo : "Ground Hugging Dark Smokey Fog" Bhelie, Mo: Massive wedge with satellite tornado. Clouds boiling almost 90 Deg. angle Gorham, Ill: "Wall of Black Smoke PUSHING White Steam" "Solid Sheet" Murphysboro, Ill: "Army of Debris" "Black Clouds on the Ground" Desoto, Ill: "A Churning Grey/Black Mass" West Frankfurt, ill: "Low Rolling Wind" "Great Big Heavy Cloud" Parrish, Ill : "Huge Top Spinning around on the Ground" "Rolling Fog Bank" Griffin, Ind: "Black Smoke on the Ground" "3 Funnels Approaching" Owensville, Ind: 3 Funnels observed open fields: "Twisting Pillar of Mud and Debris moving real fast" Princeton, ind: "Cloud rolling over like a Barrell" These are descriptions givin by eyewitnesses. Some people said that the Tornado had the an Inverted Truncated cone Appearance.
This area of Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Southwestern Indiana is also earthquake prone: the New Madrid Fault and the Wabash Valley Fault have produced quakes of varying degrees for many years.
There was a member of my family killed by this storm in White County, Illinois. Also, I once lived in Murphysboro and had a GF in De Soto. The cemetery there has a lot of "1925" dated headstones.
Cool. When the tri state tornado was in Hamilton county and white county Illinois it was 1.3 to 1.5 miles wide. A 74 year record for the largest tornado ever until may 3rd 1999.
I live in one of the only three story houses still standing from that day in murphysboro. I have watched so many docs about it. What I'm worried about is I know for absolute sure this house wouldn't survive another one, the foundation is already being destroyed over time.
This was amazing and I understand what you did. I've only been able to imagine the terrain. Now I've travelled along that pathway and have absorbed the essence of that day. Thank you much.
I really wish there was a time machine invented and that we could travel back in time to see what this Tornado looked like and see in person the destruction it caused this was a mega tornado without a doubt
drewski 15 my guess is it looked a lot like the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma or Joplin, Missouri as both of those were more than a mile wide and this one was reported to have been the same.
drewski 15, Tornado ripped up railroad tracks. A 300 MPH Tornado could not do such destruction. These meteorologists know nothing of Tornadic wind speed. They say they are experts. I have serious doubts that they are. Jarrell Texas Tornado left destruction never seen before. I would say a super strong Tornado has 500 MPH winds. They haven't made a device yet that can measure these winds. All of these devices made have been destroyed
David Vance What made Jarrell tornado so destructive was that it was moving at crawling speed, almost stationary at times. Some structures might can take 300 mph winds for a second, but not for over a minute with the debris the tornado is carrying with it.
+The Kid Glad you liked it. It was rather tedious, sometimes exacting work. But I thought it was an event well worth documenting in a format like this. I like being able to fly over the areas that were actually hit by the tornado.
Parrish was never rebuilt, it's creepy driving through there now knowing how many people died there :( This tornado was still not even a worse case scenario. It could have taken a due east direction and clobbered Carbondale, Marion, Harrisburg, equality and shawneetown. Then it would have made that slight left turn and hit Evansville Indiana. It also could have went further north and struck the heart of St. Louis, Vandalia, Effingham, Terra Haute. This tornado was going to be a mega-disaster (path wise) any way you look at it.
They never hit Carbondale proper; occasionally on the far southern edge. Pattern is Murphysboro, DeSoto - Elkville, NW corner of Marion, West Frankfort, on on NE. Found a 100 year old map tracking tornadoes in IL and you can actually see that "split" NE or SE just beyond Murphysboro. It's fascinating.
What is everyone expecting? The guy take several weeks out of his life to fly a drone over where the tornado went? It is an interesting aerial perspective of where the tornado traveled and it is acurate. Thank you @railfan49 for putting this together.
Thank you for saying that. I really wanted to see the topography along the tornado's path. It had to be a powerful storm to traverse all the hills and valleys.
It wasnt rainwrapped it look more like an amorphous boiling black cloud rolling along the hills. People couldnt recognize it, looked more like a black ground hugging fog or a dust storm approaching.
Not complaining but it seems you missed some places: Royalton, IL.,Hurst-Bush, IL., Royalton and Hurst-Bush would have been the first places after it left Jackson County as both are right on the border with it, I know it went right there them but don't know how much damage was done in Hurst-Bush..Royalton got a Big Muddy River bridge destroyed just South of town.
All that land use to be cities/towns until that awful Tri-state Tornado went through and demolished everything in its path. At the beginning I think that was an actual recording of the tornado forming.
+ESLDatingDiaries Sorry to disappoint, but I didn't have much time for creativity on this video. I was in a rush to finish it on the tornado's anniversary date, March 18. I was a day late in getting it posted.
I wonder why the Mississippi River wasn't shown on this "ride"? I even backed up the animation 3 times looking for it. Why wasn't it included? It's a major part of the landscape!
Actually the tornado was moving much faster than this 60 or 70 miles per hour yet for some reason it took three hours and this moving slower than it only took one.
Not only was it big it looked more like an amorphous boiling black cloud rolling along the hills. Most people thought it was a ground hugging fog or a dust storm approaching. It didnt look like a tornado.
@@brickx4106 Pretty much like the El Reno tornado. Many chasers were caught in the rain wrapped tornado, because they did not recognize that the rain area was the tornado itself.
@@davidvance6367 NO! Infact there was a stupid law governing use of the word Tornado over the radio and sounding of sirens (as to avoid inciting panic) there were no warnings issued as a result of that law. this changed all that and they took steps to try to issue warnings and watches ahead of tornadoes.
What's the old saying talking about traveling? "You missed the turn!" Living in Owensville as a 16 years, long distance veneer log hauler trucking over that terrain shown in this CGI Google Map??😅 Well? It's worth watching for sure. Over 98% of our town was spared death and destruction by the Grace of the Good Lord. Non trivia: Yep! It's 9° NNE turn's APEX was exactly where the new 18 million dollar WVX Doppler Radar was constructed 3 miles southwest in 2003! My **theory on why that deadly EF-7 twister changed direction slightly: My grandmother said the dead and the survivors found outdoors were covered in a combination of sticky orange clay and fine orange sand. The Great Tri-State Tornado crossed two major rivers being the Mississippi and Wabash Rivers. Spinning on 6 miles west and headed straight for our town it passed over sand ground approximately 3.5 miles wide. The giant twister became very heavy picking up Wabash River water and then sucking up tons upon tons of orange colored "sands" for raising watermelons, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes and various other farm produce. Attn! Coast to Coast AM; tonight's guest Cody Cassidy plans to talk about the worst tornado in American history. Live on the radio @ 12 AM News Talk 1280.com WGBF! Best, C.J.W. ** That theory was told in person to a retired NOAA Meterologist from Oklahoma City and he liked it. He was writing his book about this Tornado's 219 mile trail into America's Natural History books filled so many times with human tragedies.😪
