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Heavy Lake Effect Snow Downwind of the Great Lakes; Unsettled Weather Along the West Coast

Heavy lake-effect snow and gusty winds will continue through Thursday downwind of the Great Lakes. Snowfall totals could reach up to 2 feet. The combination of heavy snow and gusty winds will bring hazardous driving conditions with blowing and drifting snow. A Pacific Storm will bring areas of low elevation rain and higher elevation snow from northern California into the Pacific Northwest. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  03/31/1914 1600         0 Garfield Near Enid
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?)
56-15 04/08/1956 2215 7 400 F3 0 4 Garfield Waukomis - Enid
58-15 06/24/1958 0200 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Garfield W of Enid
60-94 07/29/1960 1830 n/a n/a F2 0 0 Garfield Near Enid
64-12 04/22/1964 1645 54 733 F2 0 1 Garfield/ Noble/ Kay 5 SE Enid - West side of Ponca City - 6 N Ponca City
66-23 06/05/1966 1830 4 n/a F0 0 0 Garfield 4 N- 6 NE Enid
66-24 06/05/1966 1835 n/a n/a F2 0 6 Garfield North part of Enid
66-25 06/05/1966 1900 6 n/a F1 0 0 Garfield SW part of Enid- 4 S Enid
69-5 04/16/1969 1630 2 n/a F1 0 0 Garfield 3 NW Enid
73-66 10/10/1973 1805 0.1 50 F1 0 0 Garfield 3 W Enid
77-54 08/23/1977 0150 1.0 50 F1 0 0 Garfield Just W of Enid
79-24 05/02/1979 1615 21 880 F4 1 25 Major/ Garfield 4 NE Cleo Springs- 1 NE Meno- Lahoma- Far SW Enid
81-69 08/15/1981 1345 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Garfield 7 SW Enid
81-76 11/03/1981 1130 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Garfield Near Enid
83-20 05/12/1983 1852 0.1 50 F0 0 0 Garfield 10 W Enid
84-11 04/20/1984 1629 0.1 n/a F0 0 0 Garfield 5 SW Enid
85-27 06/03/1985 1820 0.2 5 F1 0 0 Garfield NNE part of Enid
91-33 04/26/1991 1700 6 350 F3 0 0 Garfield 6 E Enid- 4 W Garber
  04/21/1999 1858 0.1 25 F0 0 0 Garfield 1 WNW Vance AFB
  04/25/2009 2110 1.5 30 EF2 0 0 Garfield Northwest Enid (near Cleveland/Purdue) - north Enid
 

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.