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March 17

• 1894 – Part of a larger four-day outbreak sequence, an F4 tornado destroyed much of the western part of Emory, Texas, killing 4 people and injuring 40. The same tornado may have also struck Sulphur Springs at F2 intensity, inuring 5 others. One, possibly two other people were killed by an F2 tornado near Celeste, Texas.
• 1985 – An F3 tornado struck the southern side of Venice, Florida, destroying 55 homes, many of them well-constructed, and damaging 220 others. Two people died and 45 were injured.