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Powerful Pacific System Impacting the West; First Significant Snow for Portions of the East

Power Pacific system will continue to bring significant impacts for Pacific Northwest into northern California the remainder of the week. Dangerous coastal affects, heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow continues. Meanwhile, a storm across the east is set to bring the first accumulating snow to many higher elevations of the Catskills into the central Appalachians. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  03/04/1894 2030 15 440   1 3 Pottawatomie Shawnee
  04/30/1918 1500 17 400       Pottawatomie/ Lincoln NE of Shawnee - E of Prague
24-1 03/28/1924 1545 50 200   8 60 Cleveland/ Pottawatomie/ Lincoln Near Noble - Shawnee - near Prague
  07/24/1931 2000 1 50   0 0 Pottawatomie 8 NW Shawnee
  05/26/1944 1900   150   0 2 Pottawatomie NW of Shawnee
  05/24/1946 1530 6 100   0 0 Pottawatomie Near Shawnee
  08/13/1949 1100 0.5 n   0 0 Pottawatomie 6 N Shawnee
53-54 12/02/1953 2130 1.5 880 F1 0 1 Pottawatomie Shawnee
55-12 04/26/1955 1200 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Pottawatomie Near Shawnee
55-40 05/26/1955 0330 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Pottawatomie Near Shawnee
57-103 09/14/1957 1756 0.5 45 F2 0 3 Pottawatomie Bethel (5 W Shawnee)
60-45 05/05/1960 1700 72 800 F5 5 81 Pottawatomie/ Lincoln/ Okfuskee/ Creek S of Shawnee- between Paden and Prague- Iron Post- Sapulpa- NE of Sapulpa
61-4 02/17/1961 1900 7 n/a F2 0 1 Pottawatomie 9 W- 4 NW Shawnee
62-33 05/28/1962 1720 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Pottawatomie 3 N Shawnee
65-24 04/14/1965 1845 0.1 25 F2 0 0 Pottawatomie 3 SW Shawnee
65-36 05/09/1965 1515 0.1 100 F2 0 3 Pottawatomie 6 SW Shawnee
70-44 10/05/1970 1542 25 150 F4 4 84 Pottawatomie/ Lincoln/ Okfuskee Shawnee- Prague- 2 N Paden
76-25 06/29/1976 1810 1.5 30 F0 0 0 Pottawatomie 5 NW Shawnee
77-45 05/21/1977 0030 9 100 F2 0 0 Pottawatomie 3 SW - ~6 NE Shawnee
81-48 05/23/1981 1725 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Pottawatomie Near Shawnee
81-49 05/23/1981 1730 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Pottawatomie Shawnee (N of I-40 and Kickapoo)
81-61 06/14/1981 2150 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Pottawatomie Near Shawnee
  10/04/1998 2050 3 100 F1 0 0 Pottawatomie NW Shawnee
  10/04/1998 2058 2 100 F1 0 0 Pottawatomie SE Shawnee
  05/03/1999 2005 7 250 F2 1 10 Pottawatomie 2 N Bethel Acres - NW Shawnee - 7 E McLoud
  05/03/1999 2020 11 100 F1 0 0 Pottawatomie/ Lincoln 6 NNW Downtown Shawnee - SE Meeker - 4 NE Meeker
  05/10/2010 1648 7 880 EF3 0 3 Pottawatomie 4.5 NNW Pink - 5 NW Shawnee
  04/13/2012 1624 0.2 20 EF0 0 0 Pottawatomie 3 E Dale/5 NW Shawnee (just E of US-177/US-270)
  05/19/2013 1700-1750 23 1500 EF4 2 10 Cleveland/ Pottawatomie East Norman (8 E downtown) - 6.5 ESE McLoud
  02/26/2023 2142-2148 6 100 EF1 0 0 Cleveland/ Pottawatomie 2 SSE Newalla - 2 NNW Dale
 

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.