63 years ago Thursday, a massive tornado tore through El Dorado, Kansas. The EF-4 twister was on the ground for eight miles and was 300 yards wide. Leroy Burton of El Dorado was 9-years-old during the tornado, "He [dad] said, if it ever stops moving you know it’s coming right at you. And at about that time it stopped moving. We went out the backdoor and ran like hell to the storm shelter." Stephen Sheridan of El Dorado was only 1-year-old during the tornado, but it nearly took his life. "She [mom] said she went and picked me up out of my baby bed and she said not ten minutes later a 2×4 came through the window." On Thursday, the tornado’s survivors and relatives remembered the thirteen El Dorado residents killed in the storm. In 2007, the town built a memorial for the victims in Graham Park.
Source: KSN-TV
