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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
612 AM CDT MON JUN 8 2026
..ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY
IF THERE WAS SUCH A DAY AS "NATIONAL TORNADO DAY" IT
MIGHT BE JUNE 8TH. IN 1953, A VIOLENT F5 DEVASTATED
NORTH FLINT MICHIGAN. THE TORNADO'S TRACK WAS 23 MILES
LONG AND AROUND ONE HALF MILE WIDE. THE TORNADO KILLED
115, INJURED 844 AND CAUSED $19 MILLION DAMAGE. ALL
HOMES OVER A ONE MILE STRETCH ON BOTH SIDES OF A STREET
WERE OBLITERATED. IT IS STILL THE WORST TORNADO IN
MICHIGAN STATE HISTORY. A "FAMILY" OF ABOUT FIVE
TORNADOES, OF WHICH THREE WERE RATED F3 OR F4, RACED 118
MILES ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO FROM DESHLER TO CLEVELAND,
WHERE IT LEVELED AROUND 100 HOMES AND STRUCK THE
NORTHWEST PART OF HOPKINS AIRPORT. THE TORNADOES KILLED
18 AND INJURED 371. IN 1966, AN F5 TORNADO STRUCK
TOPEKA. WITH A TRACK 22 MILES LONG AND AROUND A HALF
MILE WIDE, IT LEVELED OR DESTROYED 820 HOMES. A FEW
NEIGHBORHOODS VANISHED. MOST DAMAGE OCCURRED IN AN EIGHT
MILE LONG BY FOUR BLOCK WIDE TRACK THROUGH THE CENTER OF
TOWN. THERE WERE 16 DEATHS, 406 INJURIES AND AROUND $100
MILLION DAMAGE. TEN MILLION DOLLARS OF WHICH WAS TO
WASHBURN UNIVERSITY. THE TWISTER PASSED DIRECTLY OVER
BURNETT'S MOUND THAT SUPPOSEDLY "PROTECTED" TOPEKA FROM
TORNADOES. IN 1974, AN OUTBREAK OF 23 TORNADOES STRUCK
KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA. THE WORST, AN F4 WITH A TRACK 55
MILES LONG AND AVERAGING 440 YARDS WIDE, TORE THROUGH
DRUMRIGHT, LOCATED AROUND 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TULSA.
IT KILLED 14 AND INJURED 150. ANOTHER VIOLENT F4, WITH A
TRACK 38 MILES LONG AND ONE HALF MILE WIDE STRUCK
EMPORIA. IT KILLED SIZ, INJURED 220 AND CAUSED AROUND
$20 MILLION DAMAGE.
IN 1941, AN F4 TORNADO AROUND 440 YARDS WIDE, RACED 42
MILES ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. IT TRACKED FROM SEVEN
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAIZE, TO THE BUTLER/MARION COUNTY
LINE FIVE MILES WEST OF BURNS.EIGHT WERE KILLED, 20
WERE INJURED AND FIVE HOMES WERE LEVELED. IN 1951, TWO
TORNADOES STRUCK WESTERN OKLAHOMA. ONE WAS AN F4 WITH A
TRACK 15 MILES LONG AND ONE HALF MILE WIDE. IT WAS THE
FIRST TORNADO EVER FILMED IN THE UNITED STATES.
FORTUNATELY THERE WERE NO DEATHS OR INJURIES.
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