Saturday,  April 26, 2014 • Vol. 16--No. 282 • 10 of 31

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 were 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: The infamous Wichita Andover Tornado roared into history. The deadliest of 55 tornadoes to occur that day, the F5 twister possessed a track 45 miles long and one half mile wide. It killed 17, injured 225, and caused an estimated $300 million damage, including $62 million at McConnell Air Force Base. Of the 17 deaths, 13 occurred at the Golden Spur Mobile Home Park in Andover. A second F5 tornado, known as the Red Rock Tornado, followed a track 66 miles long and nearly 1 mile wide. The behemoth leveled farms and scoured pavement off a highway. A portable Doppler radar measured 268mph winds inside the vortex which, at the time, were the strongest winds ever measured on Earth.

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