Missouri History Today January 11, 2019: Record Snowfall Buries Central And Eastern Missouri
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As Kansas City grapples with one of the fiercest snowstorms in recent memory, the entire metro area looks more like a scene from the Arctic than a bustling Midwestern city.
Missouri History Today November 11, 1911: Bizarre Great Blue Norther Weather Strikes Springfield
The “Tri-State Tornado” struck Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. It killed 695 people and injured more than 2,000.
A lightning bolt hit a pine tree about 130 feet away from the tent of four O’Fallon Boy Scouts on this day in 2000. The electricity apparently went through the tree’s roots and into the tent, blowing four holes in its bottom. One Scout was knocked unconscious and was not breathing. He likely would have …
On this date in 1927, a devastating tornado hit Poplar Bluff, killing 104 and and injuring 350 more. In all, 225 people were killed as this twister and others in its group swept through southern Missouri and Arkansas. Sadly, this heartbreaking tragedy was eclipsed in the late afternoon of May 22, 2011 when an EF5 …
Known by old timers as “the day that Marshfield blew away,” an F-4 tornado struck Marshfield and killed 99. 100 more were injured.
It was a warm spring day! Thermometers in Kansas City were reading 113 degrees.
