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New Richmond tornado: The ninth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
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1899 New Richmond tornado
Severe windstorm in Wisconsin, United States
The 1899 New Richmond tornado was an estimated F5 tornado that formed in the early evening of Monday, June 12, 1899, leaving a 45-mile-long (72 km) path of destruction through St. Croix, Polk, and Barron counties in west-central Wisconsin. There were a total of 117 fatalities…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tornado
Violently rotating column of air
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)