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1892: An F5 (estimated) tornado struck just north of the MN/IA border, killing 9. Large house timbers were found embedded in the ground three miles away from their foundations.
1912: Creighton, MO was visited by an F5 (estimated) tornado. Over one thousand head of livestock were killed in the area, along with five people. Two large homes were completely swept away.
1953: Two boys were injured by a dust devil near Prescott, AZ. One of the boys suffered a black eye, and the other had two vertebrae fractured by wind-blown debris.
1980: Several tornadoes struck the eastern German states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. Eight people were killed.
1992: A developing cumulus cloud broke through the cap in north central Kansas and exploded into a huge supercell thunderstorm. Between 4:15 and 8:35 pm, this supercell produced 39 tornadoes in north central Kansas, including 12 in Mitchell County and 9 in Osborne County. A farmer living south of Cawker City reported going to the basement in his farm home 5 different times and each time he came out of the basement, his farm had additional damage. He also reported that at one time, he counted 3 tornadoes on the ground and 4 funnels in the air. Damage to property in Mitchell County exceeded $12 million.
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