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The tornado outbreak of May 8–9, 2023 was a violent and prolific tornado outbreak which affected the Central Plains and Midwestern states from the mid-morning hours of May 8 until the early evening hours of May 9.

The outbreak produced a total of 83 tornadoes, including four which were rated EF4 and six which were rated EF3. 18 people were killed in the outbreak, and another 302 were injured. One additional fatality caused by straight-line winds occurred in Wisconsin on May 9.

All tornadoes in the outbreak were produced by three groups of supercells. The first cluster developed over Oklahoma in the morning of May 8 and tracked into Arkansas and southern Kansas before dissipating. The second wave of supercells formed in north-central Kansas and south-central Nebraska in the late afternoon of May 8 and produced numerous strong to violent tornadoes, several of which were long-tracked. The third group of supercells developed in the afternoon of May 9 in Minnesota, tracking east into Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. This group of supercells was tightly clustered and only semi-discrete, but produced several tornadoes, at least one of which was rated EF3.

The outbreak was the most prolific in Kansas since 2012, producing a total of 41 tornadoes in the state. Additionally, the outbreak was the deadliest in the Great Plains states as well as the deadliest in the month of May since 1999. The Eudora, Kansas tornado, which killed 8 people in the late evening of May 8, was described as "the most devastating tornado in Kansas since 2020" in local media.

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