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Beulah moved into South Texas, and torrential rains from
the hurricane turned the rich agricultural areas of South
Texas into a large lake. Beulah also spawned a record
115 tornadoes.
A tornado traveled 275 miles
across Lake Ontario, New York and Lake Champlain.
One South Dakota tornado was
observed hovering in a field for 45 minutes.
In 1967, Hurricane Beulah unleased
115 tornadoes over Texas.
The tornado is the most violent
of all earth's storms.
The average lifespan of a tornado
is less than 15 minutes.
Hurricane Hilda struck Louisiana
spawning many tornadoes, and claimed twenty-two lives
The first killer tornado of
record in October in Connecticut destroyed sixteen vintage
aircraft at the Bradley Air Museum in Windsor Locks. The
tornado damaged more than one hundred homes causing 200
million dollars damage. Three persons were killed, and
500 others were injured.
Three tornadoes spawned by
the remnants of Hurricane Gracie killed 12 persons at
Ivy VA.
A tornado 440 yards in width
traveled twenty miles from near Hollow OK to western Cherokee
County KS. Although a strong tornado, it was very slow
moving, and gave a tremendous warning roar, and as a result
no one was killed.
A heavy chicken house, sixteen
by sixteen feet in area, was picked up by a tornado and
wedged between two trees. The hens were found the next
day sitting on their eggs in the chicken house, with no
windows broken, as though nothing had happened.
An outbreak of tornadoes from
Oklahoma to Indiana caused 81 deaths and 25 million dollars
damage. A tornado (possibly two tornadoes) cut an eight-mile
long path across Saint Louis MO, to Granite City IL, killing
79 persons. The damage path at times was a mile and a
quarter in width. |