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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Wed Apr 10 2024

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

In 2001, the Tri-State hailstorm clobbered the I-70
corridor from Northeast Kansas, across Missouri, to
Southwest Illinois.  The long-lived supercells started
just southwest of Kansas City Kansas, then clobbered
Columbia, before eventually striking St.  Louis.  In
terms of areal coverage and duration, it is the largest
and longest hailstorm United States history.  It is also
the costliest, with 2 billion dollars damage or 3.4
billion dollars today.The hail was as large as
baseballs.  These supercells also spawned 26 tornadoes.
While only 3 of the twisters reached F2, one F1 tornado
that struck Central Missouri killed 1 and injured 2 in a
mobile home.  In 1996, the world`s strongest gust was
measured at 253 mph when Super Typhoon Olivia barreled
across Barrow Island, Australia.

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In 1979, the Western Red River Tornado Outbreak struck
Northwest Texas and Southwest Oklahoma from midafternoon
until early in the evening.  Comprised of 13 tornadoes,
this outbreak killed 59, injured 1,922, and caused around
$450 million damage or 1.8 billon dollars today.  The
deadliest and by far the costliest, was the Wichita Falls
Tornado.  It was a massive, violent F4 with a track 47
miles long and averaged three quarters of a mile wide.
The vicious vortex killed 42, of which 25 were in
vehicles, injured 1,740 and caused $400 million damage or
1.6 billion dollars today.  When it tore through an eight
mile stretch of a residential area, the vortex reached
one and one half miles wide.  It is the fifth deadliest
tornado in Texas history, and the costliest tornado in
United States history until the May third 1999 Moore
Oklahoma F5 disaster that caused a mind boggling $1
billion damage or 3.9 billion dollars today.  A second F4
tornado, with a track 39 miles long and averaging one
half mile wide, struck Vernon Texas.  It killed 11,
injured 67 and caused $27 million damage.  The longest
tornado was a 64 mile long F2, that averaged one half
mile wide.  On the ground for an hour and a half, it
stretched from Harrold Texas to midway between Lawton and
Duncan Oklahoma.  It was likely stronger than an F2, but
it tracked over mostly rural areas.

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