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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Tue May 7 2024

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

In 1927, a huge F5 tornado nearly two miles wide raced
95 miles from extreme South Central Kansas to Central
Kansas.  The tornado killed 10, injured 300, and caused
around $1.3 million damage.  Most of the approximately
100 farmsteads that were hit vanished.The twister began
in extreme Southeast Comanche County.  The vortex quickly
intensified, reaching nearly one mile wide.  The tornado
tore through Barber, Kingman, Eastern Reno and Southwest
McPherson counties before lifting 7 miles south southwest
of McPherson.  Four fatalities occurred one mile
southeast of Medicine Lodge, one was 2 miles west of
Kingman, three were in East Hutchinson and two were in
McPherson County.  Damage in East Hutchinson totaled
$750,000.

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In 1840, the Great Natchez Mississippi Tornado roared
into the record books.The huge vortex formed just
southwest of Natchez just before 1 PM and moved northeast
along the Mississippi River.  The tornado killed 317 and
injured 109.  It was the deadliest tornado in United
States history until the Tri-State Tornado of March 18,
1925 that killed 695 and injured 2,027.  It is still the
second deadliest United States tornado on record.  It is
also the only massive tornado in United States history to
have killed more people than it injured, at almost a 3 to
1 margin.

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