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100th Anniversary of 5/26/1917 Charleston-Mattoon (IL) tornado


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Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the central Illinois outbreak which produced the long-tracked F4 tornado (from MS River to almost the IN border) that would devastate Charleston and Mattoon, IL (Coles County).  This outbreak killed 108 people, mostly in Charleston-Mattoon.

Commemorative page from ILX:

http://www.weather.gov/ilx/26may1917

The same outbreak also produced tornadoes in Will County (destroying the town of Manhattan) and three F4's in Indiana.

 

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