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[2] [8] In December 1945, J. L. Baldwin, a meteorologist at the United States Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C., published a paper, where he stated that this tornado was “the greatest tornado disaster during 1945”. [5] The Tornado Project, headed by Grazulis, listed this tornado as one of the worst tornadoes in Oklahoma history. [10]
An F3 tornado hit downtown Oklahoma City five days earlier, inflicting $2.5 million (1960 USD) [7] in damages to the city and injuring 57 people. [6] The 1970s, like the 1950s, was a particularly deadly decade for tornadoes in Oklahoma, with 433 tornadoes killing a combined total of 110 people. [6]
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1945 – A major tornado outbreak killed at least 118 people in the Midwestern and Southern United States. The worst of these was an F5 tornado that destroyed a large portion of Antlers, Oklahoma, killing 69 people.
Only three whole states are part of tornado alley: Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Parts of Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska, eastern Colorado and the northern part of Texas are considered part of the alley.