Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, MO
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On This Day In Weather History - May 22 | |
Local | |
1956 |
Evening thunderstorms in the Kansas City area produced a wind gust of 56 mph at the Municipal Airport. It was the third windiest May of record with an average wind speed of 13.7 mph. |
National | |
1893 |
Farms near Darlington, WI vanished as an F5 (estimated) tornado swept them away. Three people were killed. |
1996 |
The air in Oklahoma from collapsing nighttime thunderstorms warmed when it sank. This caused a large heat burst that made temperatures rise to over 100 degrees at midnight. |
1948 |
A rare early season hurricane struck the Island of Hispanola, killing an estimated 80 people.
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2004 |
The world's widest tornado, with a maximum width of two and a half miles, struck Hallam, NE with F4 strength. |
1995 |
Cantaloupe sized hail was reported in Preston, KS. |
1933 |
A multi-vortex tornado that was nearly a mile wide and probably an F5 killed 8 people near Tyron, NE, six of whom were from the same family. |
2011 |
The 7th deadliest tornado in US history (most deadly since the modern era of record keeping began in 1950) struck Joplin, MO. The EF-5 tornado, up to a mile wide at times, had estimated winds in excess of 200 mph. 158 people lost their lives with over 1000 injured. |
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Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, MO
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Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-9421
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