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April 20

26 entries from the federal record fall on April 20, across every year it covers.

Tornadoes

Tornadoes rated F3/EF3 or stronger, or that killed, on this date.

  1. 1973F4, 3.8 mile path, 1 killed Macon, MO
  2. 2004F3, 15.8 mile path, 8 killed Putnam, IL; LaSalle, IL
  3. 1973F3, 7.8 mile path, 1 killed Boone, AR
  4. 1954F3, 5.9 mile path Frontier, NE
  5. 1964F3, 6.1 mile path Cass, IA
  6. 1967F3, 1 mile path Caddo, OK
  7. 1973F3, 7.9 mile path Pontotoc, OK
  8. 1973F3, 1 mile path Cedar, MO
  9. 1973F3, 5 mile path Pettis, MO
  10. 1973F3, 19.4 mile path Benton, MO; Pettis, MO
  11. 1973F3, 10.1 mile path Benton, MO; Pettis, MO
  12. 1973F3, 9.5 mile path Scotland, MO
  13. 1973F3, 7.8 mile path Dade, MO
  14. 1974F3, 63.5 mile path Valley, NE; Garfield, NE; Dawson, NE
  15. 1974F3, 63.6 mile path Grady, OK; Canadian, OK; Oklahoma, OK
  16. 1974F3, 41.6 mile path Nuckolls, NE; Thayer, NE; Fillmore, NE
  17. 1974F3, 6.1 mile path Jefferson, OK
  18. 1985F3, 8 mile path Pipestone, MN; Murray, MN
  19. 1986F3, 3 mile path Cumberland, KY
  20. 2007EF3, 15.7 mile path Frontier, NE; Lincoln, NE
  21. 1976F1, 0.4 mile path, 1 killed Natchitoches, LA
  22. 1984F1, 12.5 mile path, 1 killed Blaine, OK
  23. 2000F1, 2 mile path, 1 killed Bedford, TN

Deadly and costly storms

  1. 2003Hail, $145 million Clark; Delaware; Franklin; Greene

Earthquakes

Magnitude 5 or more in the lower 48 and Hawaii, 6.5 or more in Alaska, on this date (local time).

  1. 1980M5.1, near Amboy, Washington Skamania County, WA
  2. 2002M5.3, near Au Sable Forks, New York Clinton County, NY