What are the tornado death tolls for the United States?
Over 10,000 Americans have been killed by tornadoes in this century. There have been, since 1880, at least 31 tornado outbreaks taking more than 100 lives. Between 1961 and 1990, the state with the highest annual average tornado fatality rate has been Mississippi (10 per year) followed by Texas (8), Indiana (7), Alabama (6), and Illinois, Ohio and Arkansas tied at 5 per year. The tornado death toll has been steadily decreasing, due in large part to improved warnings, communications, emergency preparedness and perhaps partially of the shift of population into urban areas. What was the single deadliest U.S. tornado outbreak? The worst single tornado tragedy in the United States was the Tri-State tornado outbreak (Missouri, Illinois and Indiana) of 18 March 1925. Several tornadoes claimed a total of 747 lives with an additional 2027 persons being injured. The largest of these twisters killed 695 persons, the worst single tornado casualty toll ever. GO TO TOP What were the deadliest years
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