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Critical Fire Weather Conditions Continue Across the Plains

Locally critical fire weather conditions continue for portions of the Northern/Central Plains and much of northern lower Michigan Monday evening. Red Flag Warnings are currently in effect. Dry conditions and gusty winds will persist across southern Colorado Tuesday. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  05/27/1912 1720       1   Kay N of Blackwell
  04/09/1929 2045 5 880   0 0 Kay Near Blackwell
  04/17/1935 nt 3     0 1 Kay Near Blackwell
49-3 03/30/1949 0038 97 300   4 45 Dewey/ Blaine/ Major/ Garfield/ Grant/ Kay 9 SW Canton - Canton - Longdale - 3 NNE Enid - near Hunter - near Blackwell - KS (family?)
50-20 06/09/1950 1825 n/a 100 F1 0 0 Kay E of Blackwell
51-8 04/24/1951 2100 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Kay 6 SW Blackwell
52-6 04/21/1952 1605 0.3 50 F0 0 0 Kay 5 NNW Blackwell
53-50 11/19/1953 0825 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay Near Blackwell (SE of Maulk airport)
55-33 05/25/1955 2126 28 500 F5 20 280 Kay/ Sumner KS Blackwell - into Kansas
55-46 05/27/1955 2130 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay Between Blackwell and Braman
56-28 05/30/1956 2144 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay NW of Blackwell
59-30 05/04/1959 2115 6 300 F2 0 0 Kay 3 W- 4 NNE Blackwell
60-6 03/31/1960 1800 0.2 100 F1 0 0 Kay 2 SW Blackwell
60-28 04/29/1960 1415 n/a n/a F? 0 0 Kay 1.5 N Blackwell
64-19 05/01/1964 1545 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Kay 4 SW Blackwell
65-61 06/13/1965 0125 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay 5 NW Blackwell
65-62 06/13/1965 0125 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay 5 NW Blackwell
66-22 06/05/1966 1750 3 100 F2 0 1 Kay 6 WNW- 4 W Blackwell
68-2 04/03/1968 0010 16 100 F2 0 0 Noble/ Kay 1 ESE Billings - 7 SE Blackwell
68-10 04/19/1968 1600 0.5 50 F1 0 0 Kay 5 ESE Blackwell
68-24 05/08/1968 1745 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay 2 NE Blackwell
73-72 11/19/1973 2010 3 150 F1 0 0 Kay Blackwell
81-17 05/17/1981 1425 19 33 F0 0 0 Kay Just NE of Blackwell - ~8 NNW Newkirk
83-17 05/12/1983 1737 0.1 50 F0 0 0 Kay 12 NW Blackwell
83-19 05/12/1983 1805 0.1 50 F0 0 0 Kay 5 SW Blackwell
92-30 05/11/1992 1558 0.5 50 F0 0 0 Kay 7 NW Blackwell
92-35 05/11/1992 1620 0.5 50 F0 0 0 Kay 2 SE Blackwell
93-46 06/08/1993 1607 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Kay 7 N Blackwell
  08/29/1996 1620 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Kay 3 E Blackwell
  05/07/1997 1858 0.1 25 F0 0 0 Kay 7 W Blackwell
  09/18/2002 1829 0.3 25 F0 0 0 Kay 5 NW Blackwell
 

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.\