Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast and Northern Plains; Critical Fire Weather in the West

Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging wind gusts and hail are forecast across the Northeast U.S. and North Dakota today. Heavy to excessive rainfall is possible over eastern New Mexico into western Texas and over the western Florida peninsula today. Critical fire weather conditions will persist today over parts of the interior Northwest and Great Basin. 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.

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Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast and Northern Plains; Critical Fire Weather in the West

Ponca City, Oklahoma Tornadoes (1875-Present)