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On This Day In Weather History - May 7
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1965	The morning low at the Municipal Airport was a balmy 71 degrees. It was the third warmest May of record with an average temperature of 71.6 degrees.
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1774	Sir Francis Beaufort, inventor of the Beaufort Scale, was born.
2003	On I-24, state troopers blocked both sides of traffic to allow a tornado to pass near Paducah.
1840	At Natchez, MS at least 48 died on land and 269 on the river, most of those in sinking of flatboats, when a tornado struck. A piece of one steamboat was carried 30 miles.
1927	A family of tornadoes up to two miles wide and F5 in strength tore a 115 mile long path across south central Kansas. The tornadoes were easily visible so there were only 10 deaths, but there were still hundreds of injuries, likely from debris being flung from the tornadoes. More than 100 farms were hit, some swept clean away.

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