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Weather History
Over the course of 24 hours on April 3-4, 1974, 148 tornadoes touched down in 13 states. The Super Outbreak included 30 tornadoes classified as F4 or F5, the most intense and rare categories on the Fujita Scale. The damage spanned 900 square miles, left 315 people dead and more than 6,000 injured. The Super Outbreak was the most violent and second-most fatal tornado outbreak ever recorded. Click through for images. Above, a tornado blows through Bridgetown, just west of Cincinnati, Ohio. This tornado caused 3 deaths and 210 injuries. ...
Twenty years ago this week, on Nov. 21, 1992, six tornadoes touched down near Houston, Texas, beginning one of the worst tornado outbreaks in American history. Over the course of three days, 95 confirmed tornadoes struck 13 states, causing over $300 million in damage and leaving 641 people injured and 26 people dead. In contrast, meteorologists believe that 2012 could break the record for fewest tornadoes, thanks to the drought that has plagued much of the country, according to Mother Nature Network. Click through for photos of the aftermath. At left, Dan Dudley helps relatives salvage possessions ...
Watch The Dust Bowl Preview on PBS. See more from The Dust Bowl. The new film from America's most beloved documentary filmmaker premieres on TV this weekend. Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl debuts Nov. 18 and 19 on PBS. The two-part, four-hour documentary looks at the devastating drought of the 1930s and its effects on the Great Plains and the rest of the nation. From PBS.org: THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, combined with ...
