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June 15

• 1912 – Part of a larger outbreak, a violent tornado family moved across western Kansas and into Missouri, killing at least 20 people and more than a thousand livestock. The first member, estimated at F4 intensity killed at least 11 people as it passed near La Cygne, Kansas and Drexel and Merwin, Missouri with unconfirmed reports of 22 deaths in Bates County, Missouri. The next member of the family, an F5 tornado, passed by Adrian, Missouri and through Creighton, killing five people and injuring 30. The third tornado, estimated at F4 strength, killed four people across Johnson County, Missouri.
• 1922 – A long-track F4 tornado killed seven people as it passed near Forest, Reeve, and Barron, Wisconsin, destroying farms.