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Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall across the South-Central U.S

Widespread severe weather will continue across the Plains and Missouri Valley region Friday evening. Very large hail, strong tornadoes and wind damage are all possible. The severe thunderstorm activity will then shift into portions of the southern/central Plains Saturday. A Moderate Risk (Level 3/5) of excessive rainfall is also forecast from far northern Texas into Kansas Saturday. Read More >

NWS IWX Tornado Climatology

For updated tornado track information, visit the Damage Assessment Toolkit. In the upper-right side of that website, you can select a date, or date range, and view the tornado tracks. To find information on other severe weather events, visit the NCEI Storm Events Database. There, in the lower left, you can select a state. On the page that follows, you can search by date, county, and weather event.

All known tornadoes from 1950 to 2017 are plotted on the maps below. The images are from the Midwest Region Climate Center. Their interactive Tornado Tracks Tool provides a dynamic map to explore tornado tracks. Click on a county name to see a map of all known tornado tracks in that county, or click on a year to see all known tornado tracks for that year across the entire area.

This data is considered "unofficial". For "official" statistics, contact the National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI.

 

Tornado Track Maps by County* (1950-2017)

Adams IN Allen IN Allen OH Berrien MI
Blackford IN Branch MI Cass IN Cass MI
Defiance OH DeKalb IN Elkhart IN Fulton IN
Fulton OH Grant IN Henry OH Hillsdale MI
Huntington IN Jay IN Kosciusko IN Lagrange IN
LaPorte IN Marshall IN Miami IN Noble IN
Paulding OH Pulaski IN Putnam OH St. Joseph IN
St. Joseph MI Starke IN Steuben IN Van Wert OH
Wabash IN Wells IN White IN Whitley IN
Williams OH      

*Disclaimer: These tracks are approximate. Some starting and stopping points are not exact. 

Tornado Track Maps by Year* (1950 - 2013)

1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

 

All Known Tornado Years 1834 - Present

 

  All Known Killer Tornado Tracks 1834-Present   All Known Significant Tornado Tracks 1834 - Present

 

KIWX CWA Tornado Statistics 1950-2013

 

Significant Tornado Related Events from our Warning Area

 

Memorial Day 2019

November 5th, 2017

August 24th, 2016 

July 1st, 2014

 November 17th, 2013

 April 19th, 2011

 October 26th, 2010

 June 23rd, 2010

 June 5th-6th, 2010

 October 18th, 2007

November 10th, 2002

October 24th, 2001

May 26th, 2001

Super Outbreak 1974

Palm Sunday 1965

Wawasee Storm of 1943

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