Medicolegal Aspects of Tornadic Storms in Kansas, U.S.A

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Kansas is known for its fierce weather, including tornados in the spring and fall and blizzards in the winter. A recent series of tornados cut a path of destruction a mile wide for >40 miles (64 km), killed 20 people, and caused several hundred casualties on the evening of April 26, 1991, in Tornado Alley, which runs from the northern border of Oklahoma through southern Kansas past Wichita toward Emporium, Kansas. The wind velocity was >200 mph. Twenty people were killed, 17 of these in Andover, Kansas, a small town east of Wichita. Injuries caused by the tornados and the excellent emergency response and care provided by medical, law-enforcement, and volunteer personnel in the wake of the storms are described here.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: