This Day in Weather History

On This Day In Weather History - April 26
Local
1989	The temperature in Kansas City climbed into the low 90s in the midst of a week long period of highs in the upper 80s or lower 90s.
National
1989	The world's deadliest tornado killed 1300 people in Manikganj District, Bangladesh. Twelve thousand were injured.
1991	200,000 were killed as a cyclone caused tremendous flooding which devastated the Bay of Bengal region of Bangladesh and India.
1991	An F5 multiple vortex tornado was on the ground for about 50 minutes and traveled 70 miles near the Witchita and Andover areas. 1,120 homes were destroyed, 225 people were injured, and 17 were killed. In one mobile home park 200 of the 213 residents hid from the storm in the park's underground shelter. All 200 survived. The remaining 13, who did not seek shelter, all died. 233 of the 241 mobile homes were obliterated.
1938	A mile wide tornado, likely an F5, swept for 25 miles through Garden County, NE. A teacher and students were outside watching the sky and saw no funnel. Suddenly the teacher's car and a house were lifted from the ground and the school disintegrated. Three students were killed and their bodies found over a thousand feet away.