Historic tornado photos

An F-5 tornado was photographed as it destroyed parts of Hesston, Kan., March 13, 1990.

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/ Dave Williams/File photo

A portion of Hesston was leveled by the F-5 tornado that hit the town in 1990.

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/ Wichita Eagle file photo

Marge Peachy holds her dog as she walks away from the rubble of her house in Hesston with neighbor, Joanne Stehman.

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/ Dave Williams/File photo

A car and farm implement were damaged on the Voth farm near Hesston.

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/ Jeff Tuttle/File photo

Russ Abrahams attempts to move a twisted steel beam from the machine shed at the Schmidt Dairy Farm near Hesston.

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/ Jeff Tuttle/File photo

Elsie McElmurry walks in front of her damaged house near downtown Hesston. McElmurry took refuge in her basement when the tornado hit.

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/ Wichita Eagle file photo

Leisl Robertson volunteers to help with the cleanup in a Hesston neighborhood.

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/ Mike Hutmacher/File photo

Lori Espado of Hesston surveys the damage to the town as she walks with her children.

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/ Fernando Salazar/File photo

Roy Lambert of Hutchinson is helped after he was injured as the Hesston tornado passed through east of Burrton. Lambert took refuge in a nearby ditch when the twister approached.

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/ Mike Hutmacher/File photo

Kent Fischer is hugged by friends outside the home where his 6-year-old son, Lucas, was killed in the Hesston tornado in 1990.

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/ Fernando Salazar/File photo

A Hesston teenager takes clothes out of a closet from his damaged home in Hesston shortly after a tornado hit the town in 1990.

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/ Wichita Eagle file photo

A man looks at damage to a farm near Hesston in 1990.

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/ Jeff Tuttle/File photo

A couple stand in rubble from the Hesston tornado in 1990.

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/ Mike Hutmacher/File photo

Pat McElmurry and her friend Teri McAninch hug outside of McElmurry's mother's home in Hesston.

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/ Jeff Tuttle/File photo

Arlie Hammer and his dog Snookie were caught in the Hesston tornado March 13, 1990.

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/ Fernando Salazar/File photo

The town of Hesston was hit by a tornado March 13, 1990.

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/ Dave Williams/File photo