On this Day in Weather History...16 Oct In 1988, evening severe thunderstorms invaded Southwest Lower Michigan as well as Northern and Central Indiana. In extreme North Central Indiana, an F2 tornado caused an estimated $500,000 damage to parts of Elkhart County. Fortunately, there were no injuries or fatalities. In 1980, a house was destroyed, and three other homes and a trailer were damaged during a brief tornado touchdown at Munjor, Kansas. In 1998, a tornado that began in Eastern Trego county, steadily moved northeast before dissipating north of Hays. The tornado hit several farms in rural Ellis county and slammed into sparsely populated Yocemento. After leaving Yocemento, the tornado tore through a feed yard and on across other parts of rural Ellis county. Fortunately, the tornado stayed just west and north of populated Hays where a high school football game was in progress. The tornado damaged or destroyed 10 homes, a grain elevator, many outbuildings, a tractor and a feedlot. During the weaker moments of the tornado, it moved a 14,000 pound tractor 30 yards. One modular constructed home on a concrete slab was completely destroyed with the remains carried one half of a mile. A steel I beam from a concrete building traveled several hundred yards, eventually crashing into a grain elevator. Three empty anhydrous ammonia tanks were moved causing a leak of a benign amount of vapor. An injury occurred to a male driving a tractor trailer rig on interstate 70.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:56:09 +0000
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