National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

Erin Strengthens to a Hurricane; Heavy Rainfall Possible in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the Upper Midwest, South Texas

Hurricane Erin may bring isolated flash and urban flooding, landslides or mudslides, and possible tropical storm conditions to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands this weekend. Scattered thunderstorms and heavy rainfall may bring areas of flooding this weekend over the Upper Midwest. A tropical disturbance will bring locally heavy rain and mainly urban flash flooding to far southern Texas. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  04/28/1893 2100 3 440   5 0 Kay Ponca City
  05/07/1932   s n   0 0 Kay NE of Ponca City
53-45 07/08/1953 1540 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay 3 W Ponca City airport
57-36 04/22/1957 2200 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay 3 NE Ponca City
57-63 05/22/1957 0638 2 25 F0 0 0 Kay Near Ponca City
57-88 05/29/1957 2337 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay 6 W Ponca City
58-27 09/01/1958 1700 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Kay 4 W Ponca City airport
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
72-26 08/21/1972 1730 n/a n/a F1 0 1 Kay Lake Ponca
73-41 06/04/1973 1800 12 100 F2 0 0 Kay/ Osage 3 S- 11 E of Ponca City
73-63 09/04/1973 1358 16 200 F1 0 0 Kay 2 N Tonkawa - 3 NE Ponca City
78-5 04/17/1978 1354 9 40 F2 0 0 Kay 4 NW Ponca City - 1 NE Kildaire
78-7 04/17/1978 1358 11 40 F2 0 0 Kay 7 NW Ponca City - 2 SW Newkirk
83-6 04/27/1983 1840 12 100 F1 0 0 Kay 5 SW Tonkawa - 5 S Ponca City
  09/25/1996 2351 0.1 25 F0 0 0 Kay 2 W Ponca City
 

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.