A total of seven tornadoes were confirmed across parts of Oklahoma and Kansas on Halloween of 1984. This summary focuses on a twister rated F1 that crossed through parts of Osage County, KS and near the town of Carbondale. This was an interesting and tragic event. The twister formed (along with a second one near Springdale) in the midst of a cluster of severe storms. Those storms formed NE of Emporia and moved to near Leavenworth. The official record shows a path for this tornado of one mile. A mobile home and 2-car garage was destroyed and a woman there was killed. Her name was Edith Rogers, age 39. She was found in her trailer.
The Storm Data Entry lists the damage from the entire event. In that list, they denote that a man was killed when a shed he was in collapsed. He was a mile north of Carbondale at the Mineral Springs Mobile Home Park. The woman was killed in the same park. Thomas Grazulis in Significant Tornadoes attributes this fatality to the tornado and not straight line winds. So this tornado death count is two. The man’s name was Norman Deforest, 44 years old.
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