Severe thunderstorms are forecast through this weekend along a slow moving cold front and secondary storm system that will impact areas from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes. Large hail and isolated damaging wind gusts are the main threats with these storms along with a risk for heavy to excessive rainfall which could bring flooding. Read More >
| SPC ID # |
Date | Time (CST) |
Path Length (miles) |
Path Width (yards) |
F-Scale | Killed | Injured | County | Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/27/1912 | 1720 | 1 | Kay | N of Blackwell | |||||
| 04/09/1929 | 2045 | 5 | 880 | 0 | 0 | Kay | Near Blackwell | ||
| 04/17/1935 | nt | 3 | 0 | 1 | Kay | Near Blackwell | |||
| 49-3 | 03/30/1949 | 0038 | 97 | 300 | 4 | 45 | Dewey/ Blaine/ Major/ Garfield/ Grant/ Kay | 9 SW Canton - Canton - Longdale - 3 NNE Enid - near Hunter - near Blackwell - KS (family?) | |
| 50-20 | 06/09/1950 | 1825 | n/a | 100 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Kay | E of Blackwell |
| 51-8 | 04/24/1951 | 2100 | n/a | n/a | F1 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 6 SW Blackwell |
| 52-6 | 04/21/1952 | 1605 | 0.3 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 5 NNW Blackwell |
| 53-50 | 11/19/1953 | 0825 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | Near Blackwell (SE of Maulk airport) |
| 55-33 | 05/25/1955 | 2126 | 28 | 500 | F5 | 20 | 280 | Kay/ Sumner KS | Blackwell - into Kansas |
| 55-46 | 05/27/1955 | 2130 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | Between Blackwell and Braman |
| 56-28 | 05/30/1956 | 2144 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | NW of Blackwell |
| 59-30 | 05/04/1959 | 2115 | 6 | 300 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 3 W- 4 NNE Blackwell |
| 60-6 | 03/31/1960 | 1800 | 0.2 | 100 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 2 SW Blackwell |
| 60-28 | 04/29/1960 | 1415 | n/a | n/a | F? | 0 | 0 | Kay | 1.5 N Blackwell |
| 64-19 | 05/01/1964 | 1545 | n/a | n/a | F1 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 4 SW Blackwell |
| 65-61 | 06/13/1965 | 0125 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 5 NW Blackwell |
| 65-62 | 06/13/1965 | 0125 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 5 NW Blackwell |
| 66-22 | 06/05/1966 | 1750 | 3 | 100 | F2 | 0 | 1 | Kay | 6 WNW- 4 W Blackwell |
| 68-2 | 04/03/1968 | 0010 | 16 | 100 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Noble/ Kay | 1 ESE Billings - 7 SE Blackwell |
| 68-10 | 04/19/1968 | 1600 | 0.5 | 50 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 5 ESE Blackwell |
| 68-24 | 05/08/1968 | 1745 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 2 NE Blackwell |
| 73-72 | 11/19/1973 | 2010 | 3 | 150 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Kay | Blackwell |
| 81-17 | 05/17/1981 | 1425 | 19 | 33 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | Just NE of Blackwell - ~8 NNW Newkirk |
| 83-17 | 05/12/1983 | 1737 | 0.1 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 12 NW Blackwell |
| 83-19 | 05/12/1983 | 1805 | 0.1 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 5 SW Blackwell |
| 92-30 | 05/11/1992 | 1558 | 0.5 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 7 NW Blackwell |
| 92-35 | 05/11/1992 | 1620 | 0.5 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 2 SE Blackwell |
| 93-46 | 06/08/1993 | 1607 | 0.1 | 20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 7 N Blackwell |
| 08/29/1996 | 1620 | 0.1 | 20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 3 E Blackwell | |
| 05/07/1997 | 1858 | 0.1 | 25 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 7 W Blackwell | |
| 09/18/2002 | 1829 | 0.3 | 25 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Kay | 5 NW Blackwell |
Records taken from the Storm Prediction Center archive data, "Storm Data", and data from the National Weather Service office in Norman. Data modified as described in NOAA Tech Memo NWS SR-209 (Speheger, D., 2001: "Corrections to the Historic Tornado Database").
Historic data, especially before 1950, are likely incomplete.\
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