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Four-year-old Joan Gay Croft disappeared from Woodward, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, April 9, 1947. As darkness fell, the giant two-mile-wide twister with 200-mile-per-hour winds swept through Woodward, reducing it to rubble. More than 100 city blocks were destroyed, more than 1,000 people were injured, and 107 were killed -- all in a matter of minutes. Due to the passage of time, it is possible that Joan Gay is now deceased. If Joan's still alive, she'd be 80 years old. So, what happened to Joan Croft?

• 1:32 April 9, 1947
• 2:50 The Croft Household
• 6:26 Where is Joan Gay Croft?

hosted & narrated by:
ROB GAVAGAN

written by
CAROLYN PILOSKI

edited by:
SCOTT KINMARTIN

The Woodward Tornadoes, officially called the Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornado, were spawned from a single supercell on April 9, 1947. One of the tornadoes thought to be an F5, carved a 125-mile path from Texas to Oklahoma. It was this tornado that completely destroyed tiny Glazier, Texas, where it killed 17 people, before slamming into Higgins, Texas, where it killed 51. At points along its path, its vortex was thought to be at least two miles wide! The tornado, next crossed into Woodward, Oklahoma where it would become the deadliest tornado in state history, killing 107 and destroying Woodward.

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