Strong to Severe Thunderstorms in the East; Heat in the Central and Western U.S.

Strong to potentially severe thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts are forecast Thursday from parts of New England into the Mid Atlantic and Carolinas. Significant heat will expand across the West and Central Plains through Friday, potentially breaking daily high temperature records. Dangerous heat will then build into the Eastern U.S. this weekend through much of next week. Read More >

SPC ID #	Date	Time (CST)	Path Length (miles)	Path Width (yards)	F-Scale	Killed	Injured	County	Path
	05/17/1898					0		Woods	Waynoka - near Alva
	05/26/1908	1830		440		4	3	Woods	Alva
39-1	04/14/1939	2300	65	n		7	19	Dewey/ Woodward/ Major/ Woods	Near Vici - near Waynoka - near Hopeton - near Alva - Capron - just inside KS
51-41	08/31/1951	1550	0.5	440	F1	0	0	Woods	4 S Alva
55-62	06/17/1955	1730	4	500	F2	0	0	Woods	Near Alva
56-26	05/30/1956	2045	n/a	n/a	F0	0	0	Woods	NW of Alva
59-5	03/25/1959	1230	2	50	F0	0	0	Woods	Alva
64-10	04/16/1964	1825	n/a	n/a	F0	0	0	Woods	3 W Alva
64-22	05/05/1964	1800	n/a	n/a	F0	0	0	Woods	6 W Alva
64-23	05/05/1964	1845	n/a	n/a	F1	0	0	Woods	5 SE Alva
65-64	06/23/1965	1742	n/a	n/a	F0	0	0	Woods	8 NW Alva
69-30	09/15/1969	1927	n/a	n/a	F0	0	0	Woods	7 W Alva
	05/18/2017	1557	0.2	50	EF?	0	0	Woods	4 NW Alva

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.

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Strong to Severe Thunderstorms in the East; Heat in the Central and Western U.S.

Alva, Oklahoma Tornadoes (1875-Present)