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Gunsmoke is an American Western television series developed by Charles Marquis Warren and based on the radio program of the same name. [1] The series ran for 20 seasons, making it the longest-running Western in television history. The first episode aired in the United States on September 10, 1955, and the final episode aired on March 31, 1975.
Entertainment Weekly, in 1998, ranked Gunsmoke as No. 16 in The 100 Greatest TV Shows of all time. [47] In a 1998 TV Guide poll of 50,000, Gunsmoke was ranked as CBS's best Western and James Arness was ranked as CBS's best "Gunslinger". [48] In 1997, the episode "The Jailer" was ranked No. 28 on TV Guide ' s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. [49]
At least five in all, these included the Fort Smith tornado, which struck the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Retroactively rated a violent (F4) tornado on the modern-day Fujita scale, [ note 2 ] it was part of a tornado family that formed 60 mi (97 km ) to the southwest, [ 7 ] and struck the city around midnight, killing 55 people and injuring 113.
The tornado continued to move to the northwest as it left the community in ruins, reaching EF4 intensity for the first time as it entered into the city limits of Mayflower. The tornado produced heavy structural damage as it tore through the southern edge of the town, killing three people.
Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; Tornado outbreak of April 9, 1919; April 1924 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 1927; Tornado outbreak of April 12, 1945; Tornado outbreak of March 26–27, 1950; Tornado outbreak of February 13, 1952; Tornado outbreak of March 21–22, 1952
Deadliest tornado in New Jersey history. Great Natchez Tornado: May 7, 1840: Southeastern United States >1: 317+ fatalities, 109+ injuries: Second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history September 1845 New York outbreak: September 20, 1845: New York, Vermont >5 – Multiple long-track tornadoes crossed upstate New York
The term "Northwest Arkansas" is commonly used to refer to the rapidly growing cities of Benton and Washington counties in the geographic corner of the state. Northwest Arkansas, often abbreviated NWA, has become known as a cohesive region due to the efforts of the Northwest Arkansas Council, an association of community and business leaders formally organized in 1990 to promote regionalization ...
[nb 2] The worst of the outbreak was a deadly, devastating and violent (estimated) F4 tornado that tore though Warren, Arkansas. Part of a multi-state family, the tornado killed at least 55 people, [2] a majority of the deaths in the outbreak, and is now tied with the Fort Smith tornado from 1898 as the deadliest in Arkansas history. [3]