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August 30

• 1971 – An F2 tornado hit Tempe and Mesa, Arizona in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, destroying several homes and causing significant damage to others. Forty-one people were injured, mostly from flying glass.
• 1974 – A series of tornadoes touched down in the vicinity of Great Bend, Kansas, which mostly remained over open country. One large tornado was captured on film near Ash Valley in some of the best-known tornado footage of the twentieth century. While this tornado only produced F1 damage, analysis of the film indicated winds in the F2 range near the ground and in the F3 range aloft.