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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
  03/15/1919 1730       1 3 Custer/ Caddo 4 SE Weatherford
59-11 03/25/1959 1905 12 75 F2 0 0 Custer/ Blaine Just N of Weatherford - Just N of Hydro
62-23 05/25/1962 1919 1.5 n/a F3 0 4 Custer Just S of Weatherford - SE part of Weatherford
77-15 04/18/1977 1530 2 100 F1 0 0 Custer 2 S- ~1.5 ESE Weatherford
86-21 05/16/1986 2010 0.5 50 F0 0 0 Custer 8 W Weatherford
93-6 03/30/1993 1210 0.1 10 F0 0 0 Custer 5 N Weatherford
  10/09/2001 1657 0.5 50 F0 0 0 Custer 4 SE Weatherford
  05/18/2017 1520 0.2 30 EF? 0 0 Custer 2 SE Weatherford
  05/18/2017 1533 0.2 50 EF0 0 0 Blaine 4 NE Weatherford
 

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.