A Kansas Memory Podcast

Stormy Weather: Tornadoes in Kansas

The documents used in the Stormy Weather podcast are available on

• Teresa Bachman Oral History
  Teresa Bachman of El Dorado, Kansas, gives a first hand account of the June 10, 1958, tornado in El Dorado. The tornado killed thirteen people and destroyed or damaged more than 100 homes.
• David Fischer Jr. Oral History
  Topeka, Kansas, resident David H. Fisher, Jr. relates his experience during the June 8, 1966, tornado in Topeka.
• Ron Clayton Oral History
  A fireman in Mullinsville, Kansas, ten miles west of Greensburg, in Kiowa County, Ron Clayton describes his experience as a first responder to the May 4, 2007, EF5 tornado that destroyed Greensburg.