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22 May 1893 → Farms near Darlington, WI vanished as an F5 (estimated) tornado swept them away. Three people were killed.
22 May 1933 → A multi-vortex tornado that was nearly a mile wide and probably an F5 killed 8 people near Tyron, NE, six of whom were from the same family.
22 May 1948 → A rare early season hurricane struck Hispanola, killing an estimated 80 people.
22 May 1995 → Cantaloupe sized hail was reported in Preston, KS.
22 May 1996 → Collapsing nighttime thunderstorms in Oklahoma caused a large heat burst that made temperatures rise to over 100 degrees at midnight.
22 May 2004 → The world's widest tornado, with a maximum width of two and a half miles, struck Hallam, NE with F4 strength.
22 May 2011 → Joplin, MO was struck by a devastating EF5 tornado that took 159 lives, making it the deadliest tornado since the Woodward Tornado in 1947. The tornado was half a mile wide and stayed on the ground for 7 miles, destroying a hospital.

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September 21, 1960:

In the morning hours of September 21st, Lightning struck and caused structural damage to a home in Clear Lake, Deuel County, and a home in Clark in Clark County, and two telephone poles near Milbank in Grant County. Power was also interrupted for a short time by lightning near Britton.


Record Highs: Record Lows:
Aberdeen: 99 (1937) Aberdeen: 22 (1893)
Kennebec: 101 (1937) Kennebec: 28 (1934)
Mobridge: 101 (1937) Mobridge: 27 (1918)
Pierre: 99 (1937) Pierre: 31 (1995)
Sisseton: 97 (1937) Sisseton: 22 (1934)
Timber Lake: 96 (1937) Timber Lake: 25 (1983)
Watertown: 97 (1936) Watertown: 23 (1934)
Wheaton: 95 (1922) Wheaton: 33 (1995)

Record Precipitation:
Aberdeen: 1.85" (1959) Aberdeen: 0.2" (1995)
Kennebec: 2.00" (1989)
Mobridge: 0.41" (2006)
Pierre: 0.87" (1989)
Sisseton: 1.83" (1989)
Timber Lake: 0.60" (1941)
Watertown: 1.24" (1977) Watertown: 0.2" (1995)
Wheaton: 1.94" (2007)

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