• Moore Tornado Makeup: Nature's Fury

    May 21, 2013; 3:39 PM

    The atmospheric severe weather engine began firing on all cylinders this past weekend and reached full speed Monday over Oklahoma.

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This Day In Weather History

Kansas City, KS (1957)
Forty-five people killed and millions of dollars in damage by tornadoes.

Atlantic City, NJ (1992)
28 degrees -- coldest ever for so late in the season at the airport

Memphis, TN (1983)
Freak lightning bolt strikes a man in his neck, runs down his spine, and passes out of a pocket containing keys. The bolt then struck 2 other men nearby before also hitting a tree the men were standing under at a golf course. Miraculously all three men survived.