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The tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park Tornado (after the shopping center it leveled) killed 58 people and injured over 500 along its 202.5 mile long track. The same supercell that produced the Candlestick Park Tornado also spawned two short lived F1 tornadoes with an additional F1 tornado occurring the next day.
The Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966 [nb 1] [nb 2] was a series of tornado outbreaks which occurred between June 2 and June 12. The nearly two week event of severe weather was mainly concentrated in the Midwestern (Great Plains) region of the United States, but was widely spread out to areas as far south as Texas and Florida, and as far east as New York.
Tornado outbreak of June 27, 1953; May 1960 tornado outbreak sequence; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 23–30, 1961; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 14–31, 1962; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966; 1967 St. Louis tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of April 30 – May 2, 1967; 1968 Hansell-Charles City tornado; 1968 Oelwein tornado
Since the devastating 1966 Topeka tornado, improvements in tornado safety and preparedness help make Topekans safer from storms today.
Tornadoes have hit Iowa repeatedly in 2024. Look back at the history to see the deadliest storms in Iowa. ... Oct. 14, 1966: 6 dead, 172 injured during F5 tornado in Worth County.
Tornado outbreak of Mid–October 1966: October 14–15, 1966: Midwest: 23: 6 fatalities, 225 injuries: Unusually intense October outbreak spawned a deadly F5 tornado in Belmond, Iowa, although the rating is disputed. (15 significant, 1 violent killer) [83] Los Angeles tornadoes of November 7, 1966: November 7, 1966: Southern California: 4: 10 ...
A series of tornadoes hit Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, leveling homes and wreaking havoc in the Midwest. Elkhorn, a neighborhood of Omaha, was most severely impacted, with hundreds of homes ...
People as far as 100 miles (160 kilometers) away from Greenfield posted photos on Facebook of ripped family photos, yearbook pages and other items that were lifted into the sky by the tornado. About 90 miles away, in Ames, Iowa, Nicole Banner found a yellowed page declaring “This Book is the Property of the Greenfield Community School ...