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Winner of the 2023 Martin Kansas History Book Award
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
Honoree for the 2024 Society of Midland Authors Award
Named a 2024 Kansas Notable Book
In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an F5 tornado struck their town without warning. In three minutes the tornado destroyed most of the buildings, including the new high school. It toppled the water tower. It lifted a pickup truck, stripped off its cab, and hung the frame in a tree. By the time the tornado moved on, it had killed 82 people and injured 270 others, more than half the town's population of roughly 600 people. It remains the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas.
Jim Minick's nonfiction account, Without Warning, tells the human story of this disaster, moment by moment, from the perspectives of those who survived. His spellbinding narrative connects this history to our world today. Minick demonstrates that even if we have never experienced a tornado, we are still a people shaped and defined by weather and the events that unfold in our changing climate. Through the tragedy and hope found in this story of destruction, Without Warning tells a larger story of community, survival, and how we might find our way through the challenges of the future.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Author's Note
1. What Used to Be
2. The Weight of It
3. What the Lightning Revealed
4. Hit by Emptiness
5. Something Shifted Inside
6. Bigness of Heart
7. People Will Return
8. Overwhelmed
9. So Many Dead
10. Distributing Kindness
11. The Long Process of Working Through
12. Something to Hold Onto
13. The Smoke of What Used to Be
14. Trying to Find Normal
15. Marching On
16. Everybody Deserves a Picture
17. Remembering
18. The People Moving Forward
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Bibliographic Essay
