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Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rainfall for the Southwest; Heat Spreads Across the Center of the Nation

Moisture will continue to move into areas of the West. This will increase showers and thunderstorms coverage and intensity, with the risk of flash flooding and damaging wind gusts. Meanwhile, heat across the Southwest will expand into the center of the nation this weekend into early next week. Trends favor this heat will spread across the Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic next week. Read More >

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SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
61-24 04/08/1961 1500 1.0 33 F3 0 1 Archer Archer City
86-60 05/14/1986 1830 20 250 F3 0 4 Archer/ Clay 5 SE Archer City- Windthorst- 15 S Henrietta
95-60 05/07/1995 1205 0.1 23 F0 0 0 Archer 8 E Archer City
  05/06/2015 1949 7 250 EF2 0 0 Archer 7 WNW Archer City - 4 N Archer 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.