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Thread #144402   Message #3338834
Posted By: JohnInKansas
15-Apr-12 - 07:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Storms-tornados in Mid-West US
Subject: RE: BS: Storms-tornados in Mid-West US
A Recent Report indicates that Woodward OK was hit, with the 6 killed there being the only fatalaties I've seen.

By coincidence, just yesterday while "archiving" (digitally) some old family records, I scanned a list of "teams" (including my dad) sent down in the "Woodward Reconstruction Convoy" (about 250 names) from Wichita Aircraft Plants after the 1947 tornado that is cited as "the worst in Oklahoma history." And I also found a couple of photos showing him running around with a hammer when Beech sent a crew down to Udall KS a few years earlier.

The article linked also gives latest estimates of areas where the storm system is still active, and it still has the potential to do a lot of damage. Anyone anywhere east of here should be watching it for the next couple of days.

John