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Local Weather History For May 3rd...
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1961: An outbreak of severe weather including at least five tornadoes struck Briscoe, Floyd, Cottle, Dickens, and King
Counties late this afternoon and into the early nighttime. The first tornado moved over undeveloped land from about 10 miles north of Dickens southeastward to about 10 miles south of Guthrie. The next tornado was sighted about one mile north of Dougherty around 6 PM before moving to about two miles south of town at which point it was accompanied by a second tornado. The larger of the two tornadoes passed east of town with the lesser tracking directly through Dougherty where it destroyed three trailer homes, blew away a barn, ripped the porch off a home, and overturned several cotton trailers. About 1/2 of the population of 150 were in storm cellars when the tornado struck and there were no injuries reported. The larger tornado remained about one mile from the smaller tornado and fortunately tracked over open country before dissipating around 6:10 PM. The fourth tornado this day was brief and spotted in open land in northeast Briscoe County about 25 miles SW of Clarendon. The final tornado occurred at some point this night on the old Matador ranch (12 miles west of Paducah) and damaged only mesquite trees throughout its short path. Many of these storms also produced very large hail at times up to baseball size as was noted three miles north of Dougherty. Silverton suffered damage to roofs and autos from hail slightly larger than baseballs and some area wheat crops were a complete loss. Similar hail damage occurred in Turkey and Dickens, but was generally less in magnitude than Silverton. |
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