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Oak Lawn, IL
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Apr 20, 2022 · A volunteer firefighter from Riverdale searches for survivors underneath wrecked trailers after a tornado hit the Airway Trailer Park in Oak Lawn on April 21, 1967. The trailer park was two...
The 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak was a destructive tornado outbreak and severe weather event that occurred on April 21, 1967, across the central Midwest, in particular the towns of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States.
Thursday may have been filled with clear skies and warm temps --- but that was certainly not the case 55 years ago. A tornado outbreak in the Chicago area claimed the lives of 58 people and...
Apr 21, 2022 · At its widest point, the Oak Lawn tornado was estimated to be three-quarters to one city block wide. It was April 21, 1967, when a tornado outbreak claimed the lives of 58 people and...
The Story of the Oak Lawn Tornado. On April 21, 1967, a line of severe thunderstorms moved through northern Illinois that caused an outbreak of 19 tornados that afternoon. At 3:50 PM, a violent, F4-rated tornado rolled through the town of Belvidere, causing damage to the local high school and killing 24 people (13 of which were at the high school).
Apr 20, 2018 · OAK LAWN, IL -- Before their names belonged to the ages, 33 souls went about their Friday afternoon on April 21, 1967.
On Friday afternoon, no less than ten tornadoes occurred in northeast Illinois. This report concerns itself with the last and most destructive of that afternoon, the Oak Lawn Tornado.
