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The strongest tornadoes occurred in Illinois, including an F4 tornado in Sadorus, but one F4 tornado came very close to Lafayette, Indiana. The Metro Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township, Michigan experienced an F4 tornado on March 20, it is to date the last tornado stronger than an F3 to strike the Metro Detroit area. [ 8 ]
1976 West Bloomfield tornado. On March 20, 1976, an exceptionally violent tornado struck the Metro Detroit suburbs of West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills. Rated as an F4 on the Fujita Scale, the tornado touched down in Farmington Hills at 7:15 p.m. near Halsted Road between 13 and 14 Mile Roads, along a sharp cold front crossing Michigan.
Tornado outbreak of March 20–21, 1976: March 20–21, 1976: Mississippi Valley - Great Lakes - Southeastern United States - Mid-Atlantic: 66: 3 fatalities, 189 injuries: Several destructive tornadoes touched down in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. This included a violent F4 tornado in the suburbs of Detroit. (18 significant, 3 violent, 3 ...
The tornado injured an estimated 117 people and inflicted $17.6 million (1953 USD) on both of the towns. June 8, 1953 – A violent F4 tornado hit Temperance, killing 4 people and destroying 14 houses. The tornado caused an estimated $250,000 (1953 USD) in damages, and was one of multiple deadly tornadoes in Michigan on June 8.
0–9. 1976 West Bloomfield tornado. 1976 Brownwood tornado. Template:1976 tornado outbreaks.
1976: 834 0 241 361 168 48 13 3 1977: 852 0 236 420 136 48 11 1 1978: 789 0 338 312 106 26 7 0 1979: 855 0 359 342 116 31 7 0 1980: 866 0 267 400 162 32 5 0 1981: 782 0 283 320 149 23 7 0 1982: 1,047 0 374 421 187 58 6 1 1983: 930 0 350 372 147 57 4 0 1984: 907 0 373 352 126 41 14 1 1985: 684 0 308 259 79 29 8 1 1986: 765 0 354 271 116 21 3 0 ...
During the afternoon of May 6, 1975, at least 12 tornadoes touched down in the Upper Midwest. The costliest of these tornadoes struck parts of western Omaha, Nebraska, causing at least $150 million in damage and killing three people. It was at the time the costliest tornado in U.S. history, damaging over a thousand homes across a nearly 2,000 ...
On April 19, 1976, a violent tornado struck Brownwood, Texas, United States. [1] [3] The damage caused by the tornado was extreme enough for the National Weather Service to rate the tornado F5 on the Fujita scale. [2] In 1993, meteorologist and tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis disagreed with the National Weather Service's assessment of the ...