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June 5

• 1908 – An outbreak produced multiple violent tornadoes near the Kansas/Nebraska state line, killing 20 people. An F5 tornado killed 12 people as it traveled from near Deshler, Nebraska, across the eastern part of Carleton to near Geneva. Several farms were so completely destroyed that there was little evidence that they had even existed. Five people died in one family.
• 1916 – A tornado outbreak killed at least 99 people across the Central United States, with most of the deaths in Arkansas. An F4 tornado or tornado family killed at least 25 people on a path from near Barney to near Almond, Arkansas, including at least 18 in the devastation of Heber Springs. An F3 tornado destroyed a small community near Judsonia, Arkansas, killing nine people, including five children in one family. Another F3 tornado killed seven people, all in one house, near Sikeston, Missouri.
• 1917 – A tornado outbreak resulted in at least 49 deaths across the Midwestern United States. An F4 tornado killed 20 people in Cooper and Boone Counties, Missouri, including 7 in Centralia. Another F4 tornado killed nine people as it obliterated farms near Topeka, Kansas. An F3 tornado killed nine people as it passed between Norwood and Mountain Grove, Missouri.