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Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

Newspaper Accounts of the
August 21, 1883 Tornadoes
in Southeast Minnesota

 

The following newspaper articles came from The Winona Daily Republican.  A special thanks go out to Winona State University for allowing us access to their site and the opportunity to provide pdfs of this newspaper on this page. Without their help, we would not have been able to provide such a thorough coverage of the newspaper accounts of these historic tornadoes and some recovery efforts that took place.