1987   -A MAJOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK OCCURRED IN OKLAHOMA, TEXAS,
        AND LOUISIANA.  19 TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN WITH 11 PEOPLE KILLED
        292 INJURED.  ONE TORNADO, RATED F3 ON THE FUJITA SCALE,
        TRACKED 49.5 MILES FROM EASTERN TEXAS INTO NORTHWESTERN
        LOUISIANA.  THIS TORNADO STRUCK A CHICKEN FARM NEAR JUAQUIN,
        TEXAS AND KILLED 34,000 CHICKENS.  IN DESOTO PARISH IN
        LOUISIANA THIS TORNADO ALSO LIFTED A 9700 POUND TRACTOR WITH A
        FRONT END LOADER AND CARRIED IT NEARLY 2000 FEET AND DEPOSITED
        IT IN A HEAVILY FORESTED AREA.  VERY HEAVY RAINS ALSO FELL FROM
        SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS.  RAINFALL TOTALS, ENDING ON THE
        16th, REACHED 21.21 INCHES NEAR OLLA, LOUISIANA AND 17.76
        INCHES AT JENA, LOUISIANA.  On the 15th and 16th there were 49
        tornadoes, injuring 303 people and, together with flooding, causing
        $70 million in damage.  There were four F3 tornadoes, including ones
        that hit Palestine, TX and Shreveport, LA.
1988   -FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, A MAJOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK
        WITH KILLER TORNADOES OCCURRED ON THIS DATE, THIS TIME OVER THE
        NATION'S MIDSECTION FROM NORTHEASTERN TEXAS TO ILLINOIS.  44
        TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN.  A STRONG (F2) TORNADO HIT TOPEKA,
        KANSAS, INJURING 22 PEOPLE AND DOING 3.9 MILLION DOLLARS IN
        DAMAGE.  ANOTHER STRONG TORNADO, RATED F2, RIPPED A 43 MILE
        PATH THROUGH SALINE, PULASKI, LONOKE, AND PRAIRIE COUNTIES IN
        CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND KILLED 5 PEOPLE, INJURED 60, AND DID 15
        MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE.  HAILSTONES 3.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER
        FELL NEAR DENISON, TEXAS.
1989   -FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW ON THIS DATE, PEOPLE WERE KILLED
        FROM TORNADOES AS A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SWEPT ACROSS
        THE SOUTH.  HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA WAS STRUCK BY A TORNADO
        CLASSIFIED AS F4 ON FUJITA SCALE WITH WINDS ESTIMATED BETWEEN
        207 AND 260 MPH.  THE TORNADO CUT THROUGH THE RESIDENTIAL AREA
        OF HUNTSVILLE AND HAD A TOTAL PATH OF DESTRUCTION 18 MILES IN
        IN LENGTH AND 1/2 MILE IN WIDTH.  THE TORNADO KILLED 21 PEOPLE
        AND INJURED 463.  TOTAL DAMAGE WAS ESTIMATED AT 100 MILLION
        DOLLARS.


Source: WSI, The Weather Channel