On today's date: The Hesston, Kansas, F5 Tornado

A Tornado outbreak in the heart of the traditional level “Tornado Alley” remains for its violence today and as early as the spring appears.

On March 13, 1990, today 35 years ago, 59 tornados tore through the levels from North Texas to Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and far over Western Illinois.

Perhaps the signature of the event was an F5 tornado, Hesston, Kansas, scored about 30 miles north-northwest of Wichita. This well -documented Tornado, which is well -documented up to three quarter mile wide, was near the pretty prairie, Kansas, for the first time, a six -year -old boy who crouches in his basement in Burrthon, and then roared to Hesston. The Twister injured 59, damaged or destroyed 226 houses and 21 companies in the city.

The parent Supercell brought out a second Tornado north of Hesston, which finally caused itself with the original Tornado northeast of the city and caused additional F5 damage throughout Marion County.

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This F5 couple has remained in Kansas two of only six F/EF5 tornados since 1950, and the earliest in spring had such a tornado in the sunflower state in the sunflower state in 75 years.

But there were two more violent tornados out of the break, an F4 in Dubuque County, Iowa, and another F4 tornado, which laid a length of 124 miles in Nebraska State Record length from near the red cloud to close to Schuyler. As if by a miracle, only nine were injured by this long-track tornado.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at Weather.com and has reported national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Apply to him BlueskyPresent X (formerly Twitter) And Facebook.