18 Photos of the Deadly Lorain Tornado of 1924

As we usher in another tornado season here in the sunny Midwest, we give pause to one of northeast Ohio's deadliest storms, the Lorain-Sandusky Tornado, which swept off of Lake Erie in June of 1924, killing 85 people and displacing dozens more.

All photos are courtesy of the Cleveland Memory Project and Cleveland Press.

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