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Heat and Fire Weather Concerns in the West; Excessive Rainfall Possible in the South-Central U.S.

Heat will build over the Intermountain West and the Southwest the next couple of days. Lightning from dry thunderstorms can create new fire starts and combined with gusty winds may cause a fire to rapidly grow in Oregon and northern California. Flash flooding will be possible in New Mexico and west Texas today, as well as parts of the southern and central Plains due to slow moving thunderstorms. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  03/30/1897 1730 10 880   14 40 Lincoln Chandler
64-51 09/26/1964 2020 0.5 100 F1 0 0 Lincoln 1 W Chandler
75-15 05/13/1975 1705 0.5 50 F1 0 0 Lincoln 3 NE Chandler
86-34 08/15/1986 1750 2 50 F0 0 0 Lincoln 7 N- 8 NNE Chandler
87-14 05/19/1987 1626 0.1 30 F1 0 0 Lincoln 5 NNE Chandler
  06/09/2004 1724 4 50 F1 0 0 Lincoln 5 W - 2.5 NNW Chandler
  11/10/2004 1740 3 600 F1 0 0 Lincoln 4 NW - 4 N Chandler
 

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.