Growing up in the Midwest, you learn a few things about the weather:

• Parts of Oklahoma and the plains are "Tornado Alley", where subosedly all the worst twisters drop.
• Our parents and grandparents can readily recall the blizzard of 1978. Or the Palm Sunday tornadoes in 1965.
• For some reason, we learned how to survive a tornado or a fire in a school. Or what to do if the school catches on fire during a tornado.
• We watch movies like Twister! and marvel at the idea of a cow being blown across the road.

Thing is, for as much as people love to talk about the weather, no one around here says much about the Tri State Tornado of March 1925. And we should be:

• The Tri-State tornado holds records for deadliest, longest-track, most damaging, most aggressive outbreaks, dual funnels, and more.
• It's the deadliest tornadic-related death event in a school. And those that didn't die in the funnel died from fires. There's a reason schools broached the topic of a combined tornado and fire drill.
• People watched as their children and spouses and friends got pulled into the tornado's swirling morass. Two hundred of whom were sitting in the basement of a church attending a funeral. Farmers discovered body parts in fields for days miles away from the storm's path.

March 2025 will mark the 100 year anniversary of the tornado. Perhaps one reason we don't know or say much about it compared to more recent weather events is we're all forgetting about it.

That needs to change and I need your help to do it.

The response to the tornado and the stories we're at risk of losing to time are just as remarkable and exceptional as the storm itself.

​If you're interested in this story and want to know more, I wrote more on my blog. You're the first to know about it. I want to write the best book on the Tri-State Tornado. But I need some financial support to do it.

Read more: https://justinharter.com/i-need-your-help-to-document-the-deadliest-tornado-ever/​

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