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Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
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Topeka, Kansas
State capital city of Kansas, United States
Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966
Weather event in the United States
The tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966 was a series of large and devastating tornado outbreaks which occurred between June 2 and June 12, 1966. The nearly two week event of severe weather was mainly concentrated in the Midwestern region of the United States, but was widely…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fujita scale
Scale for rating tornado intensity
The Fujita scale, or Fujita–Pearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists and engineers after a ground or aerial…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
June 8
Day of the year
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