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Rare Southern U.S. Winter Storm; Dangerous Cold Weather For Much of the Eastern U.S.; Critical Fire Weather for Southern California

A rare winter storm impacting the Southern U.S. will move offshore Wednesday morning. Behind the storm, arctic air will continue encompassing the eastern two-thirds of the Nation with only a slow return to normal temperatures expected by the end of the week. Moderate to strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity will maintain Critical fire weather conditions in southern California into Thursday. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  03/30/1897 1730 10 880   14 40 Lincoln Chandler
64-51 09/26/1964 2020 0.5 100 F1 0 0 Lincoln 1 W Chandler
75-15 05/13/1975 1705 0.5 50 F1 0 0 Lincoln 3 NE Chandler
86-34 08/15/1986 1750 2 50 F0 0 0 Lincoln 7 N- 8 NNE Chandler
87-14 05/19/1987 1626 0.1 30 F1 0 0 Lincoln 5 NNE Chandler
  06/09/2004 1724 4 50 F1 0 0 Lincoln 5 W - 2.5 NNW Chandler
  11/10/2004 1740 3 600 F1 0 0 Lincoln 4 NW - 4 N Chandler
 

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.