Episode 26: Tri-State Tornado of 1925

On March 18, 1925, the Tri-State Tornado crossed Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and becoming the deadliest single tornado in recorded U.S. history. CC and Kitty follow its 219-mile path, the devastation left behind, and the era before modern tornado warnings. SOURCES: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/k-12-education/severe-weather/what-causes-thunderstorm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbuMm0gxFeE https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/k-12-education/severe-weather/what-causes-lightning-and-thunder https://www.weather.gov/ilx/swop-springtopics https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/thunderstorms/faq/#:~:text=They%20are%20most%20frequently%20isolated,the%20updraft%20to%20begin%20rotating . https://www.weather.gov/ama/supercell https://www.google.com/search?q=does+a+tornado+form+when+the+rear+flank+down+draft+gets+pulled+into+the+updraft&oq=does+a+tornado+form+when+the+rear+flank+down+draft+gets+pulled+into+the+updraft&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAtIBCTEzMjc4ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://nationalpost.com/news/anatomy-of-a-supercell-tornado https://sites.psu.edu/pmarkowski/how-tornadoes-form/ https://www.weather.gov/pah/1925tornado https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/weather-forecasting-through-the-ages/ https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/14/deadly-tri-state-tornado-changed-weather-forecasting-forever https://current.org/2016/04/radios-first-spoken-weather-forecast-brought-to-you-by-st-louis-university/?wallit_nosession=1 https://www.history.com/articles/deadliest-tornado-tri-state-1925-united-states https://www.weather.gov/ffc/fujita https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/online-exhibits/100-documents/1925-tristate-tornado.html https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/100-years-ago-this-week-nearly-700-people-were-killed-in-the-deadliest-u-s-tornado https://thesouthern.com/news/one-century-later-accounts-of-americas-deadliest-tornado/article_3c796acc-9196-5ab8-8fa8-5b87e6bfc3d2.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268801867_The_1925_Tri-State_Tornado_Damage_Path_and_Associated_Storm_System https://www.americanheritage.com/great-tri-state-tornado https://medium.com/@david.frigault/blown-away-the-horrors-of-the-tri-state-tornado-d605a6a8cf65 https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/