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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Wed Mar 27 2024

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

In 1994, the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak struck the
southeastern United States from Alabama to North
Carolina.  Consisting of 29 tornadoes, two were violent
F4s and seven were strong F3s.The outbreak killed 40
and injured 491.  The first F4 tornado raced 50 miles
across Northeast Alabama from just south southwest of
Ragland, 47 miles northeast of Birmingham, to the very
small town of Rock Run, located very close to the Georgia
border.  The tornado struck late in the morning.  Of the
22 deaths, 20 were in Piedmont, where the massive three
quarter mile wide vortex leveled the Goshen United
Methodist Church.  This was an eerie coincidence.  During
the Palm Sunday outbreak of April 11th, 1965, a pair of
F4s tore through Goshen Indiana.  The second F4 struck
northwest Georgia.  It also had a 50 mile track and
reached one mile wide.The F4 damage occurred 15 miles
northwest of Canton (40 miles north of Atlanta), where
two of the three people were killed.   In 1890, an
outbreak of 23 tornadoes tore through the Ohio Valley.
Six of those were violent.  Hardest hit was Louisville
Kentucky, where 76 people were killed, 200 were injured,
and $2.5 million damage resulted.

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In 1977, dense fog played but one major factor in the
worst disaster in aviation history when two Boeing 747s
collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport in the Canary
Islands.  In all, 583 people were killed when a KLM 747,
attempting to take off, collided with a Pan Am 747 as it
was taxiing down the same runway.  Both aircraft were
among 5 aircraft that had been diverted to Tenerife after
a terrorist detonated a bomb at Gran Canaria
International Airport on the island of Las Palmas, which
had been the original destination for both flights.
Miraculously, 61 survived, all of whom were aboard the
Pan Am flight.In 1984, the temperature at Brownsville
Texas soared to 106 degrees, and Cotulla Texas, reached
108 degrees.  The 108 degree torching at Cotulla equaled
the March record for the United States at that time.

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