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In 1948, a strong tornado with a track 16 miles long and one half mile wide struck Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. The tornado caused $10.25 million damage which at the time was an Oklahoma state record for a tornado. The twister destroyed 52 aircraft. Among them were seventeen C 54 transports, fifteen P 47 fighters and two B 29 bombers. Three staff manning the control tower were injured.

In 1984, a winter storm struck an area from South Central Kansas to Kansas City. Snowfalls ranged from 6 inches to one foot. Ice was also a major problem. The top 76 feet of the K F D I radio tower buckled under the weight of the ice and a 1400 foot TV tower near Topeka collapsed. Around 75 percent of Topeka lost power.

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In 1875, a deadly outbreak of 18 tornadoes struck the Southeast U.S. from Alabama to the Carolinas. Hardest hit, by far, was Georgia, where 9 tornadoes struck, of which 6 were violent, and where 76 of the 94 fatalities occurred. The deadliest was a vicious F4 that raced 75 miles from just northwest of Sparta, located in Northeast Georgia, to just south of Edgefield, South Carolina. The tornado which killed 28, reached around a mile wide. Camak, Georgia, located about 40 miles west of Augusta, was nearly leveled. A 2nd violent tornado struck Central Georgia where 13 were killed. All statistics regarding the twister weren't reported, but the equally powerful F4 caused incredible devastation.
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