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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Fri May 3 2024

...ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...

In 1999, the Southern Plains Tornado Outbreak produced
an afternoon and evening of incredible devastation from
North Texas, through Central and Eastern Oklahoma, to
South Central Kansas.  A staggering 74 tornadoes were
reported that day, of which 58 occurred in Oklahoma.  In
Oklahoma, the most infamous, no doubt, was the immense F5
that tore through Moore, a South Oklahoma City suburb.
The hideous vortex had a track 38 miles long and three
fourths to 1 mile wide.  The most powerful tornado on
record killed 36, injured 583, and caused nearly $1.1
billion damage.  It moved northeast and tracked nearly
parallel to Interstate 44.  When it roared into Moore, a
portable Doppler measured rotational velocities that may
have reached 318 mph just off the ground, the most
violent winds ever recorded on Earth.  This placed the
tornado on the threshold of becoming the first F6 tornado
in history.  Obviously, the destruction was
mind-boggling.The most stupefying occurred when around
10 homes, of which 4 were adjacent to each other,
vanished.  The most violent in Kansas was the F4 variant
that barreled through Haysville and South Wichita.  The
tornado`s track was 14 miles long and around one half
mile wide.  It killed 6, injured 150, and caused around
$140 million damage.  In all, the outbreak killed 46,
injured 895, and caused $1.4 billion damage.

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