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The spring months of March, April, May and June all saw very large numbers of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks. The fall, sometimes referred to as a "second season", was very quiet. The Andover, Kansas outbreak of April 26, 1991 was famous for its violent tornadoes, incredible video and is the signature event of this tornado season. 1991 saw one ...
The 1991 outbreak occurred during a period of modernization for the National Weather Service and helped highlight the value of radar imagery for detecting tornadoes. In April 1991, the WSR-88D NEXRAD radar in Norman, Oklahoma, was the only radar of its kind with Doppler capabilities, and even then it had not been cleared for use in day-to-day ...
Part of the 1991 Andover tornado outbreak and Tornadoes of 1991 In the afternoon hours of April 26, 1991, a large and devastating tornado moved 46 miles (74 km) through areas southeast of Wichita , located in the state of Kansas .
The end of April 2021 marks an entire decade since a severe weather event that the National Weather Service called "one of the most active, destructive, and deadly" in U.S. history for tornadoes ...
1991 Andover tornado outbreak: April 26–27, 1991: Central-Southern Great Plains: 58: 21 fatalities: One of the most intense Plains outbreaks on record, produced five violent tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas. A very violent F5 tornado killed 17 people in the Wichita metropolitan area at Andover, Kansas, destroying an entire mobile-home park.
A Jan. 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a montage of tornado and extreme weather footage. "Tornado in Roger Arkansas (sic)," reads text superimposed on the video. The post's ...
Tornado outbreak of April 30 – May 2, 1967: 101 21 4 4 0 38 13 90 Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013: 101 23 7 2 0 77 8 190+ [1] Tornado outbreak sequence of March 1913: 100 10 2 7 0 19+ 241+ 800+ Tornado outbreak of April 15–16, 1998: 100 10 7 3 1 63 12 120 [1] 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak: 99 17 3 5 0 45 58 1,418: Tornado outbreak of ...
Central Arkansas suffered "significant damage" Friday, the state’s governor announced, after meteorologists said a tornado touched down in North Little Rock, pummeling buildings and leaving at ...