Portal:Tornadoes/Anniversaries
May 16
- 1999 – An F3 tornado destroyed several homes and a bridge near Logan, Iowa. Two people, out of a family of five taking cover in a ditch, were killed when their car and a combine header were blown on top of them.
- 2017 – The most destructive day of an outbreak sequence brought several strong tornadoes to the Central United States. An EF3 tornado traveled 83 miles (134 km) across parts of Wisconsin, the longest single tornado track in state history, and devastated a trailer park near Chetek, killing one person and injuring 25. An EF2 tornado killed one person near Carter, Oklahoma.
May 17
- 1896 – A family of massive tornadoes, up to F5 intensity, with one member at least 2 miles (3.2 km) wide moved across northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, devastating the towns of Seneca, Oneida, Sabetha, and Reserve, Kansas, killing 25 people. Farms were "left as bare as the prairie". An F2 tornado killed five people in a small home near Elva, Kentucky.
May 18
- 1883 – A tornado outbreak killed 64 people across the Central United States with the worst impacts in Illinois. Eight people died in Racine, Wisconsin where homes were "ground to pieces" by an F4 tornado. Eight more were killed when another F4 tornado destroyed Greasy Prairie, Illinois. A "balloon-shaped" F4 tornado carved a path through Springfield, Illinois and leveled numerous farms, killing 11 people. Another 12 were killed by a tornado that damaged or destroyed all of Literberry, Illinois.
- 1898 – A tornado outbreak left 55 people dead in the Midwestern United States. An F4 tornado or tornado family killed 28 people across western Iowa and eastern Illinois along with hundreds of livestock. A massive F5 tornado killed 12 people in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
- 1902 – An F4 tornado cut a devastating path through Goliad, Texas, obliterating 100 buildings and killing 114 people. More than a quarter of the town's population was killed or injured. Many of the deaths in the aftermath were due to tetanus.