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A photograph of the ruins of the town of West Frankfort, Illinois, in the aftermath of the March 18, 1925 Tri-State Tornado.
1925: Tri-State Tornado – America’s Deadliest Twister

The Tri-State Tornado of 1925, a catastrophic F5 tornado, was the deadliest in US history and sparked advancements in tornado monitoring