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Critical Fire Weather Concerns; Storm Tracking Across the Plains

Combination of strong winds, dry conditions and above normal temperatures will result in elevated to critical fire weather concerns for the Southern Plains and portions of Southern California. This is part of a storm system that is tracking across the central Plains with occasional snow showers and heavier snow from the Rockies through the Central/Northern Plains. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
53-49 11/18/1953 2240 0.1 15 F0 0 0 Canadian 2.5 E El Reno
56-43 07/02/1956 1837 16 400 F2 0 0 Canadian 15 SW - 1.5 E El Reno
59-7 03/25/1959 1445 0.5 200 F1 0 0 Canadian 1 N El Reno
61-9 03/26/1961 1430 n/a n/a F2 0 0 Canadian 5 NW El Reno
61-15 04/08/1961 1545 1.3 100 F2 0 0 Canadian 6 ESE El Reno
61-26 04/30/1961 1800 0.5 n/a F2 0 0 Canadian 11 W El Reno
67-32 06/10/1967 2135 17 n/a F0 0 0 Canadian/ Oklahoma 4 N El Reno - 3 NW Lake Hefner
78-9 04/30/1978 1740 2 50 F1 0 0 Canadian S part of El Reno
78-10 04/30/1978 1740 6 50 F1 0 0 Canadian 3 E El Reno - 2 SW Richland
79-51 11/20/1979 1420 0.2 25 F1 0 0 Canadian SW of El Reno
82-78 05/30/1982 1940 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Canadian W of El Reno
83-55 05/17/1983 2155 10 200 F2 0 0 Canadian 5 WNW- 7 NNE El Reno
95-44 06/03/1995 2025 5 200 F1 0 0 Canadian 3 NNE Union City- 5 SE El Reno
  06/13/1998 1815 0.2 10 F0 0 0 Canadian 5 WNW El Reno
  06/13/1998 1817 0.2 15 F0 0 0 Canadian 4 NW El Reno
  05/03/1999 1925 0.1 25 F0 0 0 Canadian 3 ESE El Reno
  05/03/1999 2056 1 50 F0 0 0 Canadian SW Edge of El Reno
  05/03/1999 2103 22 350 F3 0 0 Canadian/ Kingfisher 1 NNE El Reno - 8 SE Kingfisher
  04/24/2006 1823 2.5 30 F1 0 0 Canadian 5.5 W - 3.1 WSW El Reno
  04/24/2006 1830 2.5 200 F1 0 0 Canadian 5.1 SW - 5 SSW El Reno
  05/08/2007 2243 1.8 150 EF1 0 0 Canadian El Reno (just SW of I-40/US-81 - just S of Choctaw Rd/Elm Rd. [2.5 SSE - 1 S El Reno]
  05/24/2011 1450 63 1760 EF5 9 181 Canadian/ Kingfisher/ Logan 4 ESE Hinton (14 SW Calumet) - near Calumet - El Reno - Piedmont - Cashion - 4 NE Guthrie
  05/31/2013 1703-1744 16 4576 EF3 8 26 Canadian 8 S Calumet - 5.5 S El Reno - 6 SSW Richland
  05/31/2013 1713-1714 0.5 350 EF0 0 0 Canadian 5.7 SSW El Reno
  05/31/2013 1755-1757 0.5 50 EF0 0 0 Canadian 6 S El Reno
  05/25/2019 2128-2132 2.2 75 EF3 2 29 Canadian 2 S - 2.5 ESE El Reno
 

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.