Lentorama 2022: It Happened on Easter

Day 29: It's a twister!

The weekend of March 21-23, 1913, saw two major tornado outbreaks. The first, on Good Friday, struck mostly in the south, with a F4 storm in Alabama killing 27.

A larger outbreak struck the midwest on Easter Sunday, with a number of F4 storms touching down in Indiana, Missouri, and Nebraska. Nebraska actually got the worst of the outbreak, recording 135 tornadoes over the weekend, which was more than half of all tornadoes recorded. The deadliest of these tore through Omaha, where the storm entered from the west of the city and left a path of destruction through both high end neighborhoods and the city's African-American district. All told over 2000 homes were destroyed and 94 people died.