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Dangerous Cold Weather for Most of the Country; Rare Winter Storm for the South; Fire Weather Concerns for Southern California

Arctic air will filter south and east through early this week. As this cold air moves across the South, a rare winter storm is forecast to develop from Texas, Gulf Coast States into the Southeast through early this week. Several new daily record low temperatures are expected, including new record-low maximum temperatures. For Southern California, fire weather concerns increase this week. Read More >

Saint Michael's Ridge

March 28, 1920

As part of a much larger tornado outbreak across the Great Lakes, this was one of this area's worst tornadoes on record. The tornado first touched down near Uniondale and intensified south of Ossian, leveling farm after farm. The destruction contined across southeast Allen county, with 9 deaths on 5 different farms. After just missing Hoagland, the tornado devastated the village of Townley 3 miles north of Monroeville. Virtually every building in Townley was leveled and included 4 deaths. In Indiana, over 100 buildings were destroyed, wind damage totalling $1,000,000 at the time. Crossing into Ohio, the tornado skipped across Paulding county, damaging farms and uprooting trees. Losses were much greater in Defiance county, as 6 people were killed near the town of Brunersburg. The tornado continued northeast in a skipping fashion across rural farm country before leveling the unlucky community of "Rabbs Corner" in northwest Lucas county where 4 more deaths occurred. The destruction seen below is from Defiance county.  These photos were taken at Saint Michael's Ridge north of Defiance, near the intersection of Behrens and Moser roads.