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Heat Persists in the Southwest; Elevated to Critical Fire Weather in the Great Basin; Poor Air Quality in the West

Dangerous heat will persist across the Southwest U.S. through this week, easing by next week. The heat will focus further east in the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley beginning next week. Elevated to locally critical fire weather conditions will persist for the Great Basin today. Poor air quality lingers for the Northwest, Great Basin, Central Rockies into the Plains. Read More >

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SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
55-9 04/05/1955 0830 n/a n/a F2 0 0 Clay Near Henrietta
67-51 05/20/1967 1140 0.5 33 F0 0 0 Clay 6 SE Henrietta
68-46 05/16/1968 1435 0.1 15 F1 0 0 Clay Between Henrietta and Bellevue
86-60 05/14/1986 1830 20 250 F3 0 4 Archer/ Clay 5 SE Archer City- Windthorst- 15 S Henrietta
90-94 05/27/1990 1630 0.2 10 F1 0 0 Clay 15 S Henrietta
93-34 05/08/1993 1608 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Clay 13 NE Henrietta (8 SW Ryan OK)
 

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.