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Tornado outbreak of May 1968. The Tornado outbreak of May 1968 was a significant and deadly tornado outbreak that struck most of the central and southern United States from May 15 to May 16, 1968. Producing 46 tornadoes, the outbreak killed at least 72 people, including 45 in Arkansas alone. The outbreak also produced two F5 tornadoes in Iowa.
jonesboro .org. Jonesboro ( / ˈdʒoʊnzbʌrə /) is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. In 2022, the city had an estimated population of 79,876, [4] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas.
The first F5 tornado struck Charles City and Elma, Iowa, killing 13 people and damaging or destroying nearly 924 homes with a damage cost of $30 million. The second F5 tornado, also in Iowa, stuck Oelwein and Maynard, killing 5 people. Homes were leveled and swept away in both towns. Two F4 tornadoes struck Arkansas.
The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the Miss America title three times (1964, 1982, 2017). Cori Keller of Stuttgart was crowned Miss Arkansas 2023 at Robinson Center Auditorium in Little Rock. She competed for the title of Miss ...
The 1968 United States presidential election in Arkansas was held on November 5, 1968 as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. American Independent candidate George Wallace won the state of Arkansas with 235,627 votes, with Republican Richard Nixon winning 189,062 and Democrat Hubert Humphrey winning 184,901. [1]
Tuckerman—Jonesboro, Arkansas: 1968 May 15: 35 364 F4 Grazulis reported 361 injuries (Grazulis, p. 1,099) Tornado outbreak of May 1968: Sulphur Springs—Pine Bluff, Arkansas: 1947 June 1: 35 300 F4 (Grazulis, p. 931) Dora—Bergens—Warrior—Royal—Wynnville—Albertville—Sylvania, Alabama: 1908 April 24: 35 188 F4 1908 Dixie tornado ...
History. A-State was founded as the First District Agricultural School in Jonesboro in 1909 by the Arkansas Legislature as a regional agricultural training school.Robert W. Glover, a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas Legislature from Sheridan (1905–1912), introduced in 1909 the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges ...
Tornado outbreak of April 12, 1945. Tornado outbreak of March 26–27, 1950. Tornado outbreak of February 13, 1952. Tornado outbreak of March 21–22, 1952. Tornado outbreak of March 12–15, 1953. Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6, 1953. 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak. Tornado outbreak of November 15–16, 1955.