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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 >

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SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  05/20/1944 2015   880   0   Knox Near Knox City
53-4 03/13/1953 1400 14 50 F4 17 25 Haskell/ Knox Near Judd... O'Brien and Knox City
53-19 08/11/1953 1745 5 17 F0 0 0 Knox Near Knox City
55-61 05/25/1955 2330 12 300 F2 0 0 Knox 9 W Knox City
56-21 05/27/1956 1630 13 17 F0 0 0 Knox/ Haskell Near Judd and Knox City
56-22 05/27/1956 1630 10 17 F0 0 0 Knox/ Haskell Near Judd and Knox City
62-121 08/02/1962 1140 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Knox 5 NE Knox City
74-83 08/27/1974 1300 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Knox 8 W Knox City
89-32 05/13/1989 1329 0.2 10 F1 0 0 Knox 2 N Knox City
90-79 05/14/1990 1810 7 50 F1 0 0 Knox 8 W - 1 W Knox City
  04/15/2003 1952 2 100 F1 0 0 Knox 2 NW - 3 NNW Knox City
  04/22/2015 2050 0.2 30 EF0 0 0 Knox 6 NW Knox 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.