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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Sun Jul 28 2024

...ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...

In 1986, extremely powerful severe thunderstorms slammed
South Dakota, Northeast Nebraska and Iowa.  Parts of
Central and Eastern South Dakota were clobbered by
baseball and softball sized hail, as well as three F2
tornadoes that caused around $500,000 damage.  An F3
tornado with a track 40 miles long but only around 75
yards wide, crossed the Nebraska/Iowa border 6 miles
south of Sioux City.  It caused around $50 million damage
in Dakota County Nebraska and $500 million damage in
extreme Western Iowa.  In fact, 6 tornadoes struck
Western and Central Iowa.  Most of Iowa was raked by 60
to 80 mph winds.  The winds derailed 18 trailer flat cars
of a west bound freight train near Boone Iowa.Sixteen
of the cars fell 187 feet into the Des Moines River.

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In 1819, a small but intense hurricane struck the Gulf
Coast from Louisiana to Alabama.  In Mississippi, Bay
Saint Louis and Pass Christian took direct hits where
most houses were leveled.  The exact total of fatalities
is unknown, but 41 crew of a sailing ship were killed.
At the time, it was considered the worst hurricane in 50
years.These were two of the areas over which Hurricane
Camille, which achieved a Category 5 rating, would cause
catastrophic destruction and kill 259 people on August
17th, 1969.

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