1953 Flint–Beecher tornado
On Monday, June 8, 1953, a powerful F5 tornado went right across the city of Flint, Michigan and its suburb Beecher. The latter city had 113–114 people dead following the severe tornado.[1] Before the 2011 Joplin tornado in Joplin, Missouri, it was the final tornado that lead to triple-digit death tolls in the United States.[2]
Related tornadoes
[change | change source]Other tornadoes also hit lower Michigan and northern Ohio. The overall outbreak killed 116 or 117 in Michigan alone. Affected states also included Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, New York and Massachusetts.[3]
The overall people who died from June 6 through 9 was 247 (some reports mention higher numbers).[4] The full damage went beyond $340 million (1953 USD; almost $3.3 billion 2021 USD). Michigan's deaths alone were 125. Others were killed across Nebraska, northern Ohio and east-central Massachusetts (mostly around Worcester).[5] The last-said state's tornado was its very most expensive (costing $53 million) before 1979.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "The 1953 Beecher tornado". The National Weather Service. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ↑ "Tornado Season is Deadliest Since 1953". The Wall Street Journal Newspaper. 24 May 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ↑ "Worst Tornado in New England's History". The New England Historical Societies. 9 June 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ↑ Flint, MI/Other Towns' Tornadoes. Gen Disasters (Report). Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ↑ Massachusetts' Tornadoes of All Time. Mass Live (Report). Retrieved December 12, 2021.
