Windsor Locks, Connecticut, tornado

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  3. ↑ Anticyclonic (Left-Moving) Supercell National Weather Service Birmingham, Alabama. Accessed 2009-06-05.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "It's Been Five Years Tornado's Destruction Never to Be Forgotten". Windsor Journal. October 5, 1984. pp. 5–6. Retrieved June 5, 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. 1 2 3 AP, UPI (October 4, 1979). "Connecticut tornado kills one, injures 400". St. Petersburg Times . pp. 1, 16. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
  6. 1 2 "These people share common nightmare". Lewiston Journal . Lewiston, Maine. Associated Press. November 3, 1979. p. 2A. Retrieved November 1, 2015– via Google News Archive.
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  8. ↑ "As Jet Is About to Land on Tornado, 'It's Not Noisy When All Are Praying'". Spokane Daily Chronicle . Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. October 5, 1979. p. 1. Retrieved November 1, 2015– via Google News Archive.
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Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado
Windsor Locks tornado damage.jpg
Destroyed houses in Windsor Locks. Image by Windsor Locks Fire Department.
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