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Active Pattern for the Center of the Nation

Severe thunderstorms, excessive rainfall, critical fire weather are all in the outlook today and into this last weekend of April. Very large hail, severe wind gusts, and a couple strong tornadoes will all be possible across the central and southern Plains today. Flash flooding also possible for portions of the Plains and Mississippi Valley. Critical fire weather conditions for Southern High Plains Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  01/26/1944 1835   660   0 3 Beckham Near Elk City
  10/09/1949 2315 16 440   0 0 Beckham/ Washita Elk City - near Canute - near Foss
51-24 05/19/1951 2012 n/a 220 F0 0 0 Beckham Near Elk City
61-70 06/02/1961 1825 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Beckham 4 W Elk City
75-8 03/27/1975 230 20 150 F1 0 0 Beckham/ Washita/ Custer 10 SW- 10 NE Elk City
80-9 04/24/1980 1900 0.3 50 F1 0 1 Beckham N part of Elk City
82-50 05/16/1982 645 0.5 50 F2 0 0 Beckham Near Elk City
83-57 06/10/1983 1820 28 40 F1 0 0 Beckham/ Custer 7 NW Elk City - near Clinton (* probably not continuous)
83-63 06/13/1983 1556 0.1 10 F0 0 0 Beckham 1.5 N Elk City
84-24 04/29/1984 740 12 100 F1 0 0 Beckham 12 SW- 4 SE Elk City
89-2 03/27/1989 1412 0.2 10 F0 0 0 Beckham 7 S Elk City
89-13 06/06/1989 2056 3 30 F0 0 0 Beckham 3 NE Elk City
89-16 06/12/1989 1357 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Beckham 8 S Elk City
93-2 03/29/1993 1612 0.1 25 F0 0 0 Beckham 2 W Elk City
  10/09/2001 1530 11.5 600 F3 0 0 Beckham/ Washita/ Custer NE side of Elk City - 2.5 W Foss Reservoir Dam
  04/16/2002 2115 0.3 50 F1 0 0 Beckham 7 NNE Elk City
  05/09/2015 1924 2 100 EF0 0 0 Beckham/ Roger Mills 6.5 N Elk City - 1 SSW Carpenter
  05/16/2015 1647 0.2 30 EF0 0 0 Beckham 2 NE Elk City
  05/16/2017 1746-1818 18 1000 EF2 1 10 Beckham/ Washita 3 NW Carter - Elk City (S side) - 3 WSW Canute
 

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.