June 2-3, 1925 | 'Probable twin F5 tornadoes' in Harrison County

June 2-3, 1925 | 'Probable twin F5 tornadoes' in Harrison County

Whenever you look at tornado statistics, you may often see that tornado data is labeled as "since 1950." This is because 1950 is when the National Weather Service began systematically surveying and classifying tornadoes in the monthly "Storm Data Publication" papers. Before this, tornadoes, if they had been documented at all, were sparse. Reasons for this vary, including the Weather Bureau's dissatisfaction with tornado research (until the 1940s…