The 1883 Rochester tornado was an F5 (estimated) tornado that hit Rochester, Minnesota on August 21, 1883. The tornado was one in a series of tornadoes that hit Southeast Minnesota on that day, causing at least 37 deaths and over 200 injuries, and it was the impetus for the creation of the Mayo Clinic. On July 21, two other tornadoes struck the area. An F4 tornado was one of a family of tornadoes that killed 4 people near Dodge Center (15 miles west of Rochester), and an F2 tornado devastated Elgin, 10 miles (16km) northeast of Rochester.
The outbreak
According to Joseph Leonard as written in History of Olmsted County, Minnesota,
Although meteorology in 1883 was primitive compared with modern science, Leonard's observations reveal quite a bit about the atmospheric conditions in Rochester that day. High temperatures, high humidity, strong surface winds, and vertical wind shear appear to have all been present, and all are key factors in the development of thunderstorms and tornadoes. The Rochester tornado was one of at least 3 violent tornadoes that hit southeastern Minnesota that day, but because the Rochester twister was so devastating, the other two were largely ignored by the press and relatively little is known about them.
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RememberRochester's 1883 tornado. The Lowertown neighborhood was the site of much of the destruction that visited Rochester during an 1883 tornado that would eventually help create Mayo Clinic.
Heritage House, an 1875 Victorian residence in Rochester’s Central Park, will open for tours. The home which survived the 1883 Rochester tornado that destroyed part of the city has been restored and decorated with period antiques.
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Much has been written about the tornado that tore through Rochester in August 1883 and how it led, eventually, to the founding of a great medical complex. But equally devastating, if not as well-known, was the tornado that hit St.
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