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Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927, the Glossary

On Thursday, September 29, 1927, an outbreak of at least 15 significant tornadoes, including three F3 tornadoes, killed at least 82 people in the Central United States, particularly in Missouri and Illinois.^[1]

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1927 meteorology
1927 natural disasters in the United States
September 1927 events
Tornado outbreaks

American Meteorological Society

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is a scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Audubon County, Iowa

Audubon County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Audubon, Iowa

Audubon is a city and the county seat in Audubon County, Iowa, United States.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brookfield, Missouri

Brookfield is a city in Linn County, Missouri, United States.

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Broseley, Missouri

Broseley is an unincorporated community in eastern Butler County, Missouri, United States.

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Butler County, Missouri

Butler County is a county located in the southeast Ozark Foothills Region in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Cates, Indiana

Cates is an unincorporated community in Fulton Township, Fountain County, Indiana, United States.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Checotah, Oklahoma

Checotah is a town in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Chrisman, Illinois

Chrisman is a city in Ross Township, Edgar County, Illinois, United States.

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Christian County, Illinois

Christian County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Clay County, Arkansas

Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Corning, Arkansas

Corning is a city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.

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Cowden, Illinois

Cowden is a village in Shelby County, Illinois, United States.

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Crawford County, Arkansas

Crawford County is a county located in the Ozarks region of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Decatur, Illinois

Decatur is the largest city in and the county seat of Macon County, Illinois, United States.

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Doniphan, Missouri

Doniphan is a city in Ripley County, Missouri, United States.

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Downtown St. Louis

Downtown St.

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Edgar County, Illinois

Edgar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Enhanced Fujita scale

The Enhanced Fujita scale (abbreviated as EF-Scale) rates tornado intensity based on the severity of the damage they cause.

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Fountain County, Indiana

Fountain County lies in the western part of the U.S. state of Indiana on the east side of the Wabash River.

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Fujita scale

The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation.

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Fulton County, Arkansas

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Granite City, Illinois

Granite City is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States, within the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.

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Greater St. Louis

Greater St.

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Guthrie County, Iowa

Guthrie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Herald & Review

The Herald & Review is a daily newspaper based in Decatur, Illinois.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Linn County, Missouri

Linn County is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.

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List of National Weather Service Weather forecast offices

The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices.

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List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in North America.

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List of tornadoes striking downtown areas of large cities

This article is a list of tornadoes that have impacted the central business district (downtown or city center) of a large city (that is, one having at least 50,000 people, not counting suburbs or outlying communities, at the time of the storm).

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Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred around the globe.

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Madison County, Illinois

Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

Mammoth Spring is a city in Fulton County, Arkansas.

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McIntosh County, Oklahoma

McIntosh County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Menlo, Iowa

Menlo is a city in Guthrie County, Iowa, United States.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Monthly Weather Review

The Monthly Weather Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society.

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Morrisonville, Illinois

Morrisonville is a small town in Christian County, Illinois, United States.

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Mountainburg, Arkansas

Mountainburg is a town in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States.

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National Climatic Data Center

The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), previously known as the National Weather Records Center (NWRC), in Asheville, North Carolina, was the world's largest active archive of weather data.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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Newton County, Arkansas

Newton County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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NEXRAD

NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S.

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Norman, Oklahoma

Norman is the 3rd most populous city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, with a population of 128,026 as of the 2020 census.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Ripley County, Missouri

Ripley County is a county in the Ozarks of Missouri.

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Rudy, Arkansas

Rudy is a town in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States.

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Shelby County, Illinois

Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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St. Charles, Missouri

Saint Charles (commonly abbreviated St. Charles) is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States.

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St. Johnsbury, Vermont

St.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Louis County, Missouri

St.

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St. Louis tornado history

There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927 and St. Louis tornado history are tornadoes in Missouri.

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St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959

A destructive and deadly outbreak of 17 tornadoes occurred on February 9–10, 1959, mostly during the overnight hours, causing widespread destruction in the Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States. Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927 and St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959 are tornadoes in Illinois and tornadoes in Missouri.

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Standard time

Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard.

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Storm Prediction Center

The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is a US government agency that is part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), operating under the control of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States Department of Commerce (DoC).

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Ted Fujita

was a Japanese-American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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Tornado

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

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Tornado outbreak

A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927 and tornado outbreak are tornado outbreaks.

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TORRO scale

The TORRO tornado intensity scale (or T-Scale) is a scale measuring tornado intensity between T0 and T11.

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Tri-State tornado outbreak

On March 18, 1925, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recorded history generated at least twelve significant tornadoes and spanned a large portion of the midwestern and southern United States. Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927 and Tri-State tornado outbreak are 20th-century tornadoes, tornadoes in Illinois and tornadoes in Missouri.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_September_29,_1927

Also known as 1927 St. Louis - East St. Louis tornado, 1927 St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado.

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1927 meteorology

1927 natural disasters in the United States

September 1927 events

Tornado outbreaks

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