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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
  05/10/1905 2045  22 880 F5 97* 58* Jackson/ Kiowa 3 SSW Humphreys - Snyder - 3 NE Snyder
17-2 04/18/1917 1855 30 50 F3 1 15 Jackson/ Tillman/ Kiowa Near Altus to between Snyder and Manitou
28-1 06/16/1928 1815 30 880 F4 7 21 Jackson/ Kiowa Near Blair - near Headrick
36-6 06/05/1936 1730 6 75 F3 1 1 Kiowa SW of Snyder
  04/30/1942 0530 0.5 50 F? 0 0 Kiowa Snyder
52-10 05/23/1952 0430 17 100 F1 0 0 Kiowa East of Snyder
54-21 05/01/1954 1416 69 440 F4 0 2 (0) Foard TX/ Wilbarger TX/ Tillman/ Kiowa Crowell and Elliot areas TX - E of Tipton - near Snyder
55-59 06/14/1955 2030 18 500 F2 0 0 Kiowa Snyder
62-18 05/24/1962 2313 N/A N/A F0 0 0 Kiowa 4 SW Snyder
75-4 02/22/1975 0100 5 75 F2 1 2 Kiowa W of Snyder - Mountain Park
76-24 06/23/1976 2355 0.3 30 F1 0 0 Kiowa 3 W Snyder
77-37 05/20/1977 1800 4 100 F2 0 0 Kiowa Near Snyder
86-15 05/14/1986 1505 1.1 75 F1 0 0 Tillman/ Kiowa 5 SW - 3 SW Snyder
86-16 05/14/1986 1509 3 500 F2 0 0 Kiowa 2 S - 2 SE Snyder
87-18 07/17/1987 1530 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Kiowa 3 S Snyder
89-19 10/29/1989 1646 0.1 30 F0 0 0 Kiowa 4 W Snyder
  06/05/2005 1836 1 50 F1 0 0 Kiowa 5 W Mountain Park - 5 WNW Snyder
  11/07/2011 1515 6 400 EF0 0 0 Tillman/ Kiowa 2.5 WNW Manitou - 4 S Snyder
  11/07/2011 1538 0.5 100 EF0 0 0 Kiowa 2.5 E Snyder
  05/09/2013 1600 0.1 10 EF0 0 0 Kiowa Snyder
  05/16/2015 1626 40 1600 EF3 0 0 Hardeman TX. Wilbarger TX/ Jackson/ Wilbarger TX/ Jackson/ Tillman/ Kiowa 8 N Chillicothe TX - 3 E Snyder
  10/07/2018 1522 0.1 10 EF0 0 0 Kiowa 4 SW Snyder
 

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.