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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
612 AM CDT SAT JUL 5 2025
..ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY
IN 1987, FOR THE SECOND MORNING IN A ROW, SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TORE THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS WITH
EXTREMELY POWERFUL WINDS. WICHITA WAS WALLOPED BY SPEEDS
THAT REACHED 100 MPH WHILE 80 MPH WINDS WHIPPED
CLEARWATER. EL DORADO LAKE WAS LASHED BY 80 TO 100 MPH
WINDS THAT INJURED 25 PEOPLE AT A TRAILER PARK. ONE
SMALL F2 TORNADO HIT DOUGLASS WHERE A SMALL COMMERCIAL
COMPLEX WAS DESTROYED.HOWEVER, NO ONE WAS INJURED.
IN 1905, A TRULY MYSTERIOUS, YET EXTREMELY POWERFUL,
WEATHER EVENT OCCURRED IN EXTREME NORTH-CENTRAL TEXAS.
IN MONTAGUE COUNTY, LOCATED ON THE RED RIVER, AN
INCREDIBLY POWERFUL WIND EVENT WITH SPEEDS COMPARABLE TO
THAT OF AN F4 TORNADO, WHICH IS A STAGGERING 207-260 MPH,
KILLED 18 AND INJURED 40. IT IS VERY UNUSUAL FOR A
TORNADO OF THIS MAGNITUDE TO HIT TEXAS IN MID-SUMMER.
THE DAMAGE PATH WAS 20 MILES LONG AND AVERAGED THREE
FOURTHS TO 1 MILE WIDE WITH EXTREMES RANGING FROM AROUND
ONE QUARTER MILE TO 3 MILES. THE FUNNEL SIGHTING AND
SOME DEBRIS BEING CARRIED FOR LONG DISTANCES ARE THE ONLY
EVIDENCE OF THIS BEING A TORNADO. HOWEVER, ACCORDING TO
MOST REPORTS THERE WAS NO FUNNEL OR CHARACTERISTIC ROAR,
YET 33 HOMES WERE LEVELED. HUNDREDS OF DEAD FARM ANIMALS
LITTERED THE COUNTRYSIDE. MOST OF THE DEATHS OCCURRED IN
TENANT HOMES. IN ONE SUCH HOME, 7 WERE KILLED. SUCH
FATALITY COUNTS ARE EXTREMELY RARE WITH DOWNBURST WINDS
WITH USUALLY NO MORE THAN 1 HOME PER EVENT, YET PEOPLE
DIED IN 9 HOMES DURING THIS EXCEPTIONALLY POWERFUL WIND
STORM.THREE SMALL FARMING COMMUNITIES WERE WIPED OUT.
THE METEOROLOGICAL CAUSE FOR THIS BIZARRE EVENT MAY NEVER
BE KNOWN.
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