North Dakota
Wild weather: on this date
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – We are in severe weather season on May 24.
On this date in 1896, an F4 tornado hit the Des Moines Iowa area injuring at least 60 people and killed at least 21. This tornado drove a steel railroad rail 15 feet into the ground, which would have weighed six to nine hundred pounds.
In 1930, one of the slowest moving tornadoes hit Pratt, Kansas. This tornado appeared stationary at times because it was only moving at five miles per hour.
The first tornado was seen on radar on this date in 1973 for an F4 tornado near Union City, Oklahoma. This led to the term tornadic vortex signature showing the rotation on radar.
1990 saw the largest tornado outbreaks in Wyoming. This brought roughly a dozen tornadoes through open landscape. One report also had tennis ball sized hail.
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