An F4 tornado tracked 27 miles through parts of Creek, Pawnee and Osage Counties on this day in 1984. The max width was 200 yards. There were 60 injuries and 1 fatality reported. Per Thomas Grazulis in Significant Tornadoes, “a man was killed when a pickup was thrown 150 yards, from the church parking lot into a school cafeteria.” The towns of Mannford and New Prue were hardest hit. A total of 15 homes, three churches and two schools were destroyed in Mannford.
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