This graph shows the age and gender distribution of individuals who were injured or killed directly in the tornado.
The black portions of the bars indicates the deaths.
The average age of injured survivors was 38 years, the ages of injured survivors ranged from 1 month to 98 years of age.
Persons who died were generally older as demonstrated by the skewed distribution of the black bars in the graph. The average age was 47 years ranging from 3 weeks to 94 years and that was significantly higher than the average age of survivors.
Proportionally, more females than males were injured or killed. 58% of persons who died were female, and 55% of injured survivors were female.
Race is not shown on this graph, however, we were able to obtain race information for 64% of injured survivors. Of these, whites had the highest rate of injury (10.8 per 100,000), followed by African Americans (6.9), and Native Americans (1.5).
The death rate among whites was over 1 and ½ times higher than the death rate among Native Americans (1.3 and 0.8 per 100,000, respectively). There were no African Americans who died in the tornado