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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
512 AM CST THU FEB 5 2026
..ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY
IN 2008, WHAT WAS, AT THE TIME, THE SECOND WORST TORNADO
OUTBREAK ON RECORD, HIT A 9-STATE AREA FROM THE SOUTHEAST
UNITED STATES TO THE OHIO VALLEY. COMPRISED OF 87
TORNADOES, OF WHICH 5 WERE VIOLENT EF4S, THE OUTBREAK
KILLED 57 AND INJURED 425. IT WAS THE DEADLIEST OUTBREAK
SINCE THE MAY 31, 1985 OUTBREAK THAT DEVASTATED THE
NORTHEAST UNITED STATES AND SOUTHERN ONTARIO WHEN AND
WHERE 76 WERE KILLED. THREE TORNADOES WERE ESPECIALLY
NOTEWORTHY. ONE STRUCK NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS, WHERE AN
EF4 KILLED 13.THE TORNADO RACED 122 MILES ACROSS 7
COUNTIES AND LASTED 2 HOURS. THE SECOND, AN EF3, HIT
MEMPHIS, INCLUDING PART OF THE AIRPORT WHERE FEDERAL
EXPRESS SERVICE WAS DISRUPTED.THIS TORNADO KILLED 4 AND
INJURED 36. THE THIRD WAS A VIOLENT EF4 THAT STRUCK
JACKSON TENNESSEE. SIXTY WERE INJURED AND UNION
UNIVERSITY WAS DEVASTATED.
IN 1988, ROSWELL NEW MEXICO WAS OVERWHELMED WITH AN ALL
TIME RECORD-SETTING 16.5 INCHES OF SNOW IN 24 HOURS.
STRONG WINDS AND TEMPERATURES FROM 10 TO 20 BELOW ZERO
PRODUCED WIND CHILLS FROM 70 BELOW TO 80 BELOW ZERO
ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS.
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