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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
54-62 06/30/1954 1500 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Hardeman E of Quanah
72-2 03/14/1972 1900 3 200 F1 0 0 Hardeman SE edge of Quanah- 3 E Quanah
72-3 03/14/1972 1915 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Hardeman 3 E Quanah
76-126 05/30/1976 2100 0.1 n/a F1 0 0 Hardeman 5 SE Quanah
76-127 05/30/1976 2217 0.1 n/a F1 0 0 Hardeman ~9 S Quanah
77-43 05/05/1977 1350 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Hardeman S part of Quanah
77-44 05/05/1977 1350 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Hardeman ~2 SW of Quanah
78-1 04/03/1978 1720 5 n/a F0 0 0 Hardeman W of Williams (14 NW Quanah)
78-3 04/03/1978 1800 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Hardeman 8 SE Quanah
82-147 05/27/1982 1740 0.1 5 F0 0 0 Hardeman 14 SE Quanah
86-70 05/16/1986 2013 0.2 10 F0 0 0 Hardeman S of Quanah
87-23 05/25/1987 0115 0.2 10 F0 0 0 Hardeman 3 N Quanah
94-114 05/25/1994 1815 0.1 67 F0 0 0 Hardeman 2 N Quanah
  05/29/2001 2121 8 660 F1 0 1 Hardeman 3 E Quanah - 2 WSW Chillicothe
  04/23/2003 1315 1.5 50 F0 0 0 Hardeman 6 S - 5 SSE Quanah
 

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.