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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 >

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SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  04/28/1942 2130   1760   11 250 Foard Crowell
54-28 05/01/1954 1415 34 267 F4 0 2 Foard/ Wilbarger/Tillman OK/ Kiowa OK Crowell and Elliott areas - E of Tipton OK - near Snyder OK
76-44 04/17/1976 0200 15 150 F3 0 1 Foard 10 SW Crowell- NW part of Crowell - NE of Crowell
76-45 04/17/1976 0200 4 150 F2 0 0 Foard 10 SW- 6 SW Crowell
78-68 05/18/1978 2015 1.5 20 F? 0 0 Foard 1 W Crowell- Crowell
79-38 04/10/1979 1520 3 100 F0 0 0 Foard 11 E Crowell
79-110 06/08/1979 2000 0.1 3 F1 0 0 Foard 6 N Crowell
86-68 05/16/1986 1848 5 200 F0 0 0 Foard ~15 W Crowell
86-69 05/16/1986 1910 5 150 F0 0 0 Foard 10 W Crowell
94-160 08/17/1994 2045 2 40 F2 0 0 Foard Crowell
  05/28/2015 1913 0.5 50 EF0 0 0 Foard 6 W Crowell
 

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.