The Tri-State Tornado: 219 Miles of Destruction
13m | Nov 3, 2026On one afternoon in 1925, a single tornado stayed on the ground for three and a half hours and tore a path two hundred and nineteen miles long across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. It is the deadliest tornado in American history, killing nearly seven hundred people and wiping entire towns off the map before anyone understood what was coming.
In this episode of Six Feet of History, August Mercer tells the story of the tornado that broke every record, the towns it destroyed, and why so many never saw it coming. Six Feet of History is a daily true history podcast digging up the dark, forgotten, and untold stories of the past. New episode every day.
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