Sue Simpson - The Great Tornado
On May 15, 1968 a series of powerful tornadoes battered Jonesboro, Arkansas and several surrounding communities. The tornado outbreak actually consisted of a series of tornadoes across several states that resulted in 72 fatalities, 45 of them in Arkansas alone. Of the 45 Arkansas deaths, 36 of them were in Jonesboro, a city about 70 miles northwest of Memphis.
Sue Simpson's song about the devastating storms may well sound chillingly familiar to people in the southeast, where tornadoes last week did almost incalculable financial damage and claimed at least 339 deaths, a figure that will likely climb because hundreds of people are still missing.
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