The Nation - News from April 16, 1987
A spring storm roared out of the Midwest, unleashing floods in the East that killed a 7-year-old boy in Virginia and tornadoes that overturned mobile homes in Florida, killing one woman. Showers and thunderstorms stretched from the Ohio Valley and Virginia across 1952998688mid-Atlantic states to the Southeast, where nearly eight inches of rain soaked the South Carolina coast.
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