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Heat Wave Expands to the East Coast; Flash Flooding Likely in the Central Plains into the Midwest; Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast

Dangerous, prolonged heat is ongoing in the Mid-South to Mid-Mississippi Valley and heat expands into the Northeast for a brief period today. Widely scattered instances of flash flooding due to heavy rains are forecast from northeast Kansas to much of Indiana. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of New England, northern Mid-Atlantic, and North Dakota. 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.