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1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, an Uncommon card
The 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak was a historic severe weather event that affected the Midwestern and Southeastern United States on April 10–12, 1965.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Ranked #1,671 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The tornado outbreak produced 55 confirmed ______ in one day and 16 hours.
Answer
tornadoes. The tornado outbreak produced 55 confirmed tornadoes in one day and 16 hours. From the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tourism in the Philippines. Tourism in the Philippines 84 · 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak 80 · Arkansas River 76 · 1885 Atlantic hurricane season 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cape Breton Island. Cape Breton Island 140,000 · Arkansas River 100,000 · 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak 55,000 · Bayelsa State 37,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The tornado outbreak produced 55 confirmed tornadoes in one day and 16 hours.
- The worst part of the outbreak occurred during the afternoon hours of April 11 into the overnight hours going into April 12.
- The second-largest tornado outbreak on record at the time, this deadly series of tornadoes inflicted a swath of destruction from Cedar County, Iowa, to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and a swath 450 miles long from Kent County, Michigan, to Montgomery County, Indiana.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Paul Huffman (d. 2014) [1], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.


