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1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak — Wikipedia (en)

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On March 28, 1920, a large outbreak of at least 37 tornadoes, 31 of which were significant, took place across the Midwestern and Southern United States. The tornadoes left at least 153 dead and at least 1,215 injured. Many communities and farmers alike were caught off-guard as the storms moved to the northeast at speeds that reached over 60 mph (97 km/h). Most of the fatalities occurred in Georgia (37), Ohio (28), and Indiana (21), while the other states had lesser totals. Little is known about many of the specific tornadoes that occurred, and the list below is only partial. Severe thunderstorms began developing in Missouri during the early morning hours. The storms moved quickly to the northeast towards Chicago, Illinois. The first tornado injured five people 35 mi (56 km) southeast of Springfield, Missouri, in Douglas County. This first tornado was a harbinger of things to come as the morning went on and the atmosphere began to destabilize, due to the abundance of sunshine that preceded the cold front in the warm sector, which covered the lower Great Lakes region extending southward well past the Ohio River Valley.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Palm_Sunday_tornado_outbreak
Wikidata Q4560870 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4560870
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Palm_Sunday_tornado_outbreak?action=history).
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