A highly destructive outbreak of 19 tornadoes struck areas from

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. The

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took the brunt of the outbreak with 10 F2 or F3 tornadoes touching down in the area alone on April 28, including one F3 tornado that just missed Downtown Oklahoma City, tearing through southeast of there. The outbreak killed three, injured 79, and caused $3.883 million (1960 USD) in damage.

Confirmed tornadoes

April 28 event

April 29 event

April 30 event

Oklahoma City–Forest Park, Oklahoma

This very destructive, rain-wrapped F3 tornado embedded within a swath of up to hail and straight-line winds of nearly first touched down in the Rancho Village community in Southern

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. It skipped northeastward, causing heavy damage to homes, businesses, trees, gardens, shrubs, and power lines in the Heronville,

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, and Central Capitol Hill neighborhoods. It briefly paralleled the

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(now known as the Oklahoma River) before crossing it and moving through the present-day Boathouse District, just barely missing Downtown Oklahoma City, where oil derricks were blown over. The neighborhoods of Carverdale, Edwards Community, Dodson Heights, and Garden Neighborhood Council were then hit as well before the tornado struck Forest Park, Oklahoma. The Rock Manor Estates was heavily damaged before the tornado began to move out of populated areas. It then destroyed some crops before dissipating. The tornado traveled , was wide and caused $2.5 million in damage. Two homes were destroyed, 40 others were heavily damaged, and 1,500 others had minor damage. There were 57 injuries, only seven of which were minor, with some people only narrowly escaping death. As a whole, the storm itself caused $4 million in damage to the city. This event may have consisted of several small tornadoes or sub-vortices that grazed rooftops.

Non-tornadic impacts

Numerous reports of large hail and destructive straight-line winds were recorded during the three-day outbreak. The strongest winds from the event were clocked at at

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in Southwestern

. The largest hail was in diameter, which was recorded in both

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, and

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. All three events occurred on April 28.

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