The Nation - News from June 18, 1987
A record heat wave baked the Midwest for the fifth straight day while thunderstorms barreled through the plains with powerful wind gusts near 100 m.p.h. that knocked out power and blew down barns. The storms kept down most temperatures, but highs ranged from the 90s to around 100 over Kansas and Oklahoma and were in the 90s over the rest of the southern plains and middle Mississippi Valley, Indiana and lower Michigan and Wisconsin.
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