Perhaps the signature of the event was an F5 tornado that hit Hesston, Kansas, about 30 miles north-northwest of Wichita. This well documented, up to three-quarter mile wide tornado first touched ...

On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado tore a 202-mile long path across central and eastern Mississippi into western Alabama. Of the 58 people killed by the twister, 57 were in ...

From Logan School’s top floor, 11-year-old Othella Silvey should have been able to see her house easily — it was less than ...

"As we illustrate in the paper, every single tornado of the EF-scale rating era ... that several of these tornadoes would have been rated F5 using the legacy Fujita scale." Thus, the lack of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by the Jackson County (Ill.) Historical Society shows the Logan School in Murphysboro ...