Friday,  April 26, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 281 • 12 of 36 •  Other Editions

Today in Weather History

1984: At approximately 4:43 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts of 58mph about 5 miles SE of Warner, in Brown County. Later the same day, at about 12:30 PM, large hail (1.75 inches in diameter) fell 2 miles NW of Putney.

1991: During a severe thunderstorm event, large hail fell over parts of Brown, Spink, Hand, and Buffalo Counties. Both Brown and Hand Counties received hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter.

1938: A mile wide tornado, likely an F5, swept for 25 miles through Garden County, NE. A teacher and students were outside watching the sky and saw no funnel. Suddenly the teacher's car and a house were lifted from the ground and the school disintegrated. Three students were killed and their bodies found over a thousand feet away.

1984: About 70% of Morris, OK, was destroyed by an F3 tornado south of Tulsa. A 28-square-block area was heavily damaged and five people lost their lives.

1989: The world's deadliest tornado killed 1300 people in Manikganj District, Bangladesh. Twelve thousand were injured.

1991: 200,000 were killed as a cyclone caused tremendous flooding which devastated the Bay of Bengal region of Bangladesh and India.

1991: An F5 multiple vortex tornado was on the ground for about 50 minutes and

traveled 70 miles near the Witchita and Andover areas. 1,120 homes were destroyed, 225 people were injured, and 17 were killed. In one mobile home park 200 of the 213 residents hid from the storm in the park's underground shelter. All 200 survived. The remaining 13, who did not seek shelter, all died. 233 of the 241 mobile homes were obliterated.

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