John, weather in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas has been and always will be a challenge.
Exactly ten years before your �deployment� at Ft. Sill, I was stationed at Smoky Hill Army Air Base, near Salina, Kansas.
The winter was brutal year 1943 - never saw the snow covered ground all winter!
Tar paper barracks - pot bellied coal stove - snow blowing though cracks - near froze to death even sleeping in everything I could put on..
Exactly 10 years later after WWII and college on GI bill, doing O&G Exploration work in central OK, witnessed the tornado in Blackwell that you mentioned.
Looked like Hiroshima�.
Seen lots of �funnels� but never caught in one - prayers for all the recent victims.
George
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