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[edit] May 2
1982: The Weather Channel went on the air in the United States.
[edit] May 6
1965: A series of violent tornadoes affected the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
1975: An F4 tornado struck Omaha, Nebraska.
[edit] May 7
1840: The Great Natchez Tornado struck Natchez, Mississippi, killing at least 317 people.
[edit] May 10
1933: A tornado killed almost every resident of the small town of Beatty Swamps, Tenessee. Because of the destruction, the town was abandoned permanently.
[edit] May 11
1953: A tornado destroyed areas of downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114 people.
1970: Seventeen years later, an F5 tornado struck downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 people. It was the only F5 tornado in history to strike a skyscraper, which had its steel infrastructure twisted by the storm.
[edit] May 12
1997: An F1 tornado affected downtown Miami, Florida, causing minor damage.
[edit] May 18
1902: A tornado killed 114 in Goliad, Texas.
[edit] May 19
1780: An unusual darkness, lasting from noon until after sunset, fell over parts of New England.
[edit] May 27
1896: The St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado tore through downtown Saint Louis, Missouri, killing at least 284.
1997: The Jarrell tornado completely wiped out the Double Creek Estates, killing 27 of 131 residents.
[edit] May 31
1889: The Johnstown Flood caused by days of heavy rains which led to the failure of the South Fork Dam, killed more than 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1985: More than 40 tornadoes were spawned in the eastern Great Lakes in the United States-Canadian Outbreak, including the only F5 ever recorded in that area.
