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Southeastern England. Local flooding, landslides, lightning, and wind gusts inflicted damage across lowland England. Seventeen people were killed in the London area.

1930: New Mexico's deadliest tornado, an F2, killed two men in Wagon Mound when it destroyed the auto repair garage they were in. About one hundred buildings were damaged.

1935: The U.S.'s record 2-hour rainfall amount was set at D'Hanis, TX, with exactly 15 inches. The U.S.'s record 2.75 hour record rain was also set with 22 inches.

1947: A tornado swept clean the north side of Leedey, OK. Not only were homes obliterated and blown away, but the top few inches of people's lawns were swept away as well. However, the tornado took a full 5 minutes to slowly chew through the small town, so F5 winds may not have been necessary to create damage this complete.

1985: The eastern Great Lakes region's worst tornado outbreak. One of the tornadoes was an F5 that crossed from Ohio into Pennsylvania, killing 18 people along its 47 mile long path.

2013: One of the widest tornadoes on record, an EF-3 that was as much as 2.6 miles across, struck near El Reno, OK. It was one of several tornadoes in the Oklahoma City area that took a total of 19 lives.