there was one that looked a lot like the psychedelic vines in Deborah Johnson's mesmerizing video for The Avalanche instrumental "The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake" (you can catch a ...

50 years ago this weekend, April 11 and 12, killer tornadoes ... palm-sunday-tornado-outbreak/ **An important update to this story: A former neighbor of the Halters in Crystal Lake, who ...

Illinois and Indiana." Saturday marks the 50 th anniversary of the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak of April 11, 1965, storms that hit six Midwest states, killing 271 people. Fifty-three deaths ...

Illinois and Iowa in what was the deadliest tornado outbreak in Indiana’s history. Throughout the afternoon and evening on Palm Sunday, tornadoes struck LaPaz and Wyatt in southern St. Joseph ...

One of those F4’s infamously cut through Crystal Lake in the middle ... where 137 people were killed by 10 tornadoes, nearly all of them F4’s Both the Palm Sunday Outbreak and this week ...

Several major tornado events have occurred on Palm Sunday, but the worst one was ... tearing up an 11-mile long path from Crystal Lake to Wauconda. Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN ...

In Indiana alone, 145 people died that day in what is known as the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965. Across Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois ... destroyed around Koontz Lake with 10 deaths and ...

Sixty years ago today, several Michigan towns were changed forever in what is arguably the state’s worst tornado outbreak. On April 11, 1965, the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak struck the Great ...