Air Quality Concerns; Fire Weather in the West; Flash Flooding in the Southeast

Wildfire smoke continues to result in poor air quality from the Upper Midwest into the Northeast. Multiple days of hot, dry and windy conditions are expected to bring fire weather concerns for portions of the Four Corners region into the central Great Basin and Rockies. Heavy rainfall and a flash flooding threat continues in the Southeast. Severe thunderstorms continue across the Northern Plains Read More >

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Tornadoes by Year for the 1940s
1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949	Total
0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	4

Tornadoes by Month for the 1940s
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4

#	Date	Time (CST)	Path Width (yards)	Killed	Injured	County	Path
1	04/28/1942	2130	1760	11	250	Foard	Crowell
2	05/20/1944	2015	880	0		Knox	Near Knox City
3	05/18/1946	1700	325	4	svrl	Clay/ Montague/ Denton	Unspecified path
4	03/25/1949	0710		0		Knox	Benjamin

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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Air Quality Concerns; Fire Weather in the West; Flash Flooding in the Southeast

Western North Texas Tornado Data (1940-1949)