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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Wed Aug 28 2024

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

In 1990, the deadliest tornado to strike the Chicago
Metro Area since April 21st, 1967 hit Plainfield
Illinois.  This tornado tore a 16-mile long, one third
mile wide track along the southwest suburbs of Chicago.
The tornado started in Oswego, located 12 miles south of
Aurora, then tore through Plainfield, ending in West
Joliet.  The F5 rated tornado destroyed seven
subdivisions, three schools, among them Plainfield High
School, shopping malls, several apartment complexes and
overturned gravestones.  People were thrown hundreds of
yards to their deaths.A 20-ton tractor trailer was
thrown just over half a mile, killing the driver, while
other cars were thrown considerable distances.

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In 1988, severe thunderstorms tore through New York
State and Vermont.  A tornado struck Hector New York,
killing one person, while in Vermont, tennis ball sized
hail pummeled the town of Brandon and 80 mph gusts
whipped through Lyndonville.  In 1959, an Air Force pilot
bailed out of his jet at an altitude of 46,000 feet into
a violent thunderstorm, and lived to tell about it! What
would normally have been about a 13-minute descent took
around 45 minutes.

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