Weather Trivia

Today's Weather Trivia

Today's Date is Monday April 21, 2025...\n ON... Apr 21, 1887 Twenty one people were killed and 250 injured when a tornado tracked 60 miles through Anderson and Linn counties in Kansas and Bates county in Missouri. Total damage was 1 million dollars, one of the few million dollar tornadoes in the 19th century. IN 1967...Severe thunderstorms spawned 48 tornadoes in the Upper Midwest. Hardest hit was northern Illinois where 16 tornadoes touched down during the afternoon and evening hours causing 50 million dollars damage. On that Friday afternoon tornadoes struck Belvidere IL, and the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, killing 57 persons. IN 1968...A tornado moved northeast from 11 miles southwest of Medicine Lodge KS to 2 miles east of Nashville in Kingman county. Barns were leveled, and a farm house, post office and trailer were damaged. In 2001...A tornado struck Hoisington KS during the evening hours. The F4 tornado destroyed 200 homes and 12 businesses with another 85 homes severely damaged. There was one fatality and 28 injuries about 20 percent of the town was destroyed.

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