| Weather History for May 15 |
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1686 Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of the mercury thermometer, was born.
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1995 At Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, winds were recorded reaching 136 mph.
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1923 Farms were swept off the earth by what was probably an F5 tornado south of Lubbock, TX. A man and his three sons were among the 23 fatalities. The damage path was up to a mile and a half wide.
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1886 At 10:00 pm, an F4 tornado hit Ohio leaving 5 dead and 20 injured. After causing one death in Indiana, the tornado destroyed farms northwest of Celina, in Mercer County. Then at 11:30 pm, an F3 tornado killed 11 and injured 25. The tornado destroyed much of Dunkirk and Cary.
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Data courtesy of the National Weather Service
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