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Severe Thunderstorms in the Central U.S.; Upper Level Low Over California

Scattered severe thunderstorms are possible today across central and eastern Minnesota, Iowa, and western Wisconsin. A few tornadoes, isolated very large hail, and damaging winds may occur. An upper level low will help trigger scattered thunderstorms over portions of central and southern California today along with a few inches of snow in the central Sierra Nevadas. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  07/31/1894 nt       0 many Blaine Watonga
  05/20/1949 l ev       0 0 Blaine NW of Watonga
60-16 04/28/1960 1900 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Blaine SE of Watonga
66-21 06/05/1966 1700 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Blaine West of Watonga
67-27 06/10/1967 2030 0.3 n/a F2 0 0 Blaine Watonga
67-28 06/10/1967 2045 n/a n/a F4 0 0 Blaine 6 E Watonga
83-27 05/13/1983 1740 9 150 F1 0 0 Custer/ Blaine 1.5 S Fay - 6 W Watonga
85-22 05/13/1985 1650 0.1 5 F0 0 0 Blaine 9 SE Watonga
  03/27/1997 2355 0.1 10 F0 0 0 Blaine .5 NE Watonga
  10/04/1998 1638 1.5 25 F0 0 0 Blaine 8 SW - 6.5 SW Watonga
  10/04/1998 1650 12 200 F2 0 0 Blaine 3 SW - 9 ENE Watonga
 

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.