<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka,_Kansas" id="mw7w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Topeka, Kansas">Topeka, Kansas</a>, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fujita scale">Fujita scale</a>, exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.<sup about="#mwt59" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_8#cite_note-10" id="mw8Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw8g">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt56" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFUS_Department_of_Commerce">US Department of Commerce, NOAA. <a class="external text" href="https://www.weather.gov/top/1966TopekaTornado" id="mwBhI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"June 8th 1966 Topeka Tornado"</a>. <i id="mwBhM">www.weather.gov</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBhQ">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBhU">2023-10-24</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt56" class="Z3988" id="mwBhY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.weather.gov&amp;rft.atitle=June+8th+1966+Topeka+Tornado&amp;rft.aulast=US+Department+of+Commerce&amp;rft.aufirst=NOAA&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weather.gov%2Ftop%2F1966TopekaTornado&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+8"></span></span>