FLORIDA Florida is known as the "Lightning Capital of the Nation" or the "Lightning Capital of the World." Florida has more injuries and deaths attributed to thunderstorms than any other US state. The city of Tampa is also billed as "The Lightning Capital of the Nation" for its huge number of thunderstorms. In one month (June 1994), more than 50,000 lightning strikes occurred in the Tampa/St. Petersburg metropolitan area.
The longest-lived and farthest traveling tornado was the world in the US, but not in the world. It was the Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925, which hit portions of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The worst tornado on record in the world was the Daulatpur-Saturia tornado, which struck central Bangladesh on April 26, 1989.
The US does not have a capital state. The capital of the US is Washington, D.C. It is a federal district.
Gainesville, Georgia.
The capital of the United States is Washington D.C. The capital of a US state depends on the state you're talking about.
Nebraska's nickname is the Corn Husker States which is similar to the Corn Capital of the US. A city in Minnesota is known as the Corn Capital of the World, and can make Minnesota the Corn Capital of the US.
There is no US state with Portsmouth as its capital.
It is the capital of the state of Georgia.
The Tri-State tornado of March 18, 1925. The tornado killed 695 people, 613 of them in Illinois.
Texas
Oklahoma City is the capital of the US State of Oklahoma.
* Phoenix is the capital of Arizona.Arizona's state capital is Phoenix.