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Tornadoes by Year for the 1960s | ||||||||||
1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | Total |
1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 29 |
Tornadoes by Month for the 1960s | ||||||||||||
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
Tornadoes by Intensity for the 1960s | |||||||
F? | F0 | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | Total |
0 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 29 |
# | Date | Time (CST) |
Path Length (miles) |
Path Width (yards) |
F-Scale | Killed | Injured | County | Path |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 05/31/1960 | 2345 | 0.3 | 17 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Knox | Near Goree |
2 | 04/08/1961 | 1500 | 1 | 33 | F3 | 0 | 1 | Archer | Archer City |
3 | 04/08/1961 | 1600 | 3 | 33 | F2 | 0 | 2 | Wichita | Near Kamay - Wichita Valley Airport - Sheppard AFB |
4 | 05/07/1961 | 2300 | 0.8 | 17 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Baylor | 5 S Seymour |
5 | 05/16/1961 | 1900 | 0.2 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | NE of Vernon airport |
6 | 07/21/1961 | 1759 | 0.2 | 517 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Wichita | Wichita Falls (3 SE Airport) |
7 | 04/26/1962 | 2245 | 3 | 100 | F3 | 0 | 13 | Wichita | Sheppard AFB |
8 | 05/20/1962 | 1500 | 1 | 50 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | 10 S Vernon |
9 | 06/05/1962 | 2000 | 1 | 50 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | east part of Vernon |
10 | 06/05/1962 | 2000 | 0.8 | 50 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Hardeman | Between Medincine Mound and Chillicothe |
11 | 08/02/1962 | 1130 | 1 | 20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Knox | 7 NW Munday |
12 | 08/02/1962 | 2114 | 0.1 | 10 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Knox | 5 NE Knox City |
13 | 05/30/1963 | 0144 | 0.5 | 100 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Wichita | 3 S Burkburnett |
14 | 04/03/1964 | 1435 | 5 | 500 | F5 | 7 | 111 | Wichita | NW Wichita Falls (FM-369/ Seymour Highway)- Sheppard AFB |
15 | 04/03/1964 | 1553 | 1.5 | 23 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | Near Red River NE of Byers |
16 | 04/23/1964 | 1630 | 1 | 37 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Baylor | 6 W Dundee |
17 | 04/24/1964 | 1600 | 1 | 100 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | 18 S Vernon |
18 | 05/19/1965 | 1547 | 0.8 | 17 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | 5 E Vernon |
19 | 04/10/1966 | 1700 | 2 | 27 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Archer | near Lake Olney |
20 | 04/23/1966 | 1505 | 1 | 27 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | NW of Vernon (just outside city limits) |
21 | 04/09/1967 | 1500 | 0.3 | 300 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | 3 N Vernon |
22 | 04/20/1967 | 1230 | 1 | 100 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Knox | 3 N Munday |
23 | 05/20/1967 | 1140 | 0.5 | 33 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 6 SE Henrietta |
24 | 05/30/1967 | 1850 | 10 | 33 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Wichita | 9 W- 7 NNW Burkburnett |
25 | 05/30/1967 | 1900 | 1.9 | 33 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Wichita | Burkburnett |
26 | 05/16/1968 | 1435 | 0.1 | 17 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | between Henrietta and Bellevue |
27 | 05/16/1968 | 1510 | 2 | 23 | F3 | 0 | 0 | Wilbarger | Near Lockett |
28 | 05/29/1968 | 2200 | 0.5 | 17 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Knox | Near Munday |
29 | 08/22/1969 | 1550 | 0.3 | 67 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Knox | Rhineland |
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.