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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
612 AM CDT THU APR 30 2026
..ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY
IN 1924, TORNADOES BROKE OUT ACROSS A LARGE PART OF THE
SOUTHEASTERN FOURTH OF THE COUNTRY. A TOTAL OF 27
SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES OCCURRED THE 29TH AND 30TH. OF THE
TOTAL, 23 OCCURRED ON THE 30TH. THE MOST VIOLENT, AND
DEADLIEST, WAS AN F4 THAT SLAMMED CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
FROM AROUND AIKEN TO DARLINGTON. THE TORNADO, LIKELY A
TORNADO FAMILY, HAD A CONTINUOUS TRACK 105 MILES LONG AND
AROUND A THIRD OF A MILE WIDE THAT PASSED 9 MILES SOUTH
OF COLUMBIA, THE STATE CAPITAL. THE TORNADO KILLED 53
AND INJURED 534. IN 1852, A TORNADO STRUCK NEW HARMONY,
LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA WHERE IT KILLED 16
PEOPLE. ITS RATING IS UNKNOWN. ON MARCH 18, 1925, THE
INDIANA SEGMENT OF THE TRI-STATE TORNADO, WHICH SET
RECORDS FOR LENGTH, WIDTH, DURATION, SPEED AND
CASUALTIES, CLOSELY FOLLOWED THE SAME TRACK.
IN 2011, FOR THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
SAID GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE MONTH OF APRIL, AS MANY TORNADO
RECORDS WERE SWEPT OFF THE BOOKS IN EF5 FASHION. THE
APRIL TOTAL OF 875 TORNADOES THOROUGHLY WIPED OUT THE
PREVIOUS APRIL RECORD OF 267 THAT WAS SET IN 1974. THE
APRIL TOTAL ALSO LEVELED THE RECORD FOR MOST TORNADOES IN
ANY MONTH WHICH HAD BEEN 542 IN MAY, 2003. IN APRIL
2011, THERE WERE 361 TORNADO FATALITIES, OF WHICH 314
OCCURRED ON THE 27TH. THAT MADE IT THE 4TH DEADLIEST
SINGLE DAY ON RECORD AND THE DEADLIEST SINCE MARCH 18TH,
1925 WHEN 747 PEOPLE DIED; 695 OF THEM WERE KILLED BY THE
TRI-STATE TORNADO THAT RACED A THREE AND A HALF HOUR, 219
MILE MARATHON FROM SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, ACROSS SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS, TO SOUTHWEST INDIANA. IN 1967, AN OUTBREAK OF
12 STRONG AND VIOLENT TORNADOES TORE ACROSS NORTHERN IOWA
AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. GARNERING THE GREATEST ATTENTION
WERE THREE F4S. THE FIRST HAD A TRACK 30 MILES LONG,
AVERAGED AROUND 500 YARDS WIDE, KILLED 6 AND INJURED 22.
HARDEST HIT WAS WASECA WHERE 16 HOMES WERE DESTROYED, OF
WHICH 6 WERE LEVELED. THE SECOND STRUCK ALONG THE IOWA
MINNESOTA BORDER, WITH A TRACK 18 MILES LONG AND ONE
QUARTER MILE WIDE. IT IS SURPRISING THAT ONLY ONE WAS
INJURED, AS THE TWISTER HIT 20 FARMS OF WHICH 10 WERE
DESTROYED AND THREE WERE LEVELED. THE THIRD HAD A TRACK
40 MILES LONG AND AROUND 200 YARDS WIDE. THAT TORNADO
KILLED FIVE AND INJURED 35. HARDEST HIT WAS ALBERT LEA
MINNESOTA, LOCATED ALONG THE IOWA BORDER, WHERE SIX FARMS
WERE LEVELED, 26 HOMES WERE DESTROYED AND 64 OTHERS WERE
BADLY DAMAGED.
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