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March 19

• 1948 – A tornado outbreak killed 43 people across the Midwestern United States. Most of the deaths were from an F4 tornado that killed 33 people as it devastated Fosterburg, Bunker Hill, and Gillespie, Illinois. Another F4 tornado killed four people in Belgrade, Missouri and caused major damage in Bonne Terre.