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Cotton County, Oklahoma Tornadoes (1875-2012)

SPC
ID #		 Date Time
(CST)		 Path
Length
(miles)		 Path
Width
(yards)		 F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
  06/03/1904 late aft       1 1 Cotton/ Comanche Near Walters and Geronimo (was just Comanche County... but part of area is now in Cotton County)
30-1 05/05/1930 1600 2 400   1 0 Cotton Near Walters
  06/06/1936 2030 0.5     0 0 Cotton Near Randlett
43-3 06/03/1943 0930 3 50   2 5 Cotton 4 S Walters
  06/04/1943             Cotton Near Randlett
51-14 05/09/1951 1830 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Cotton 7 N Walters
54-23 05/01/1954 1600 12 n/a F3 3 3 Tillman/ Cotton Near Grandfield - near Ahpeatone (~12 W Walters)
54-27 05/01/1954 1745 8 300 F3 0 0 Cotton/ Jefferson/ Stephens southern Cotton county - S of Hastings - near Addington - southern Stephens County
57-74 05/24/1957 1730 22 880 F4 4 5 Cotton/ Comanche Near Ahpeatone - Just S of Lawton
58-35 11/17/1958 0735 10 50 F3 0 4 Cotton 3 E Cookietown - 3 E Walters
59-63 08/30/1959 1820 2 100 F3 0 1 Cotton Devol
59-64 08/30/1959 1830 n/a n/a F2 0 0 Cotton Randlett
60-32 05/04/1960 1800 5 150 F2 0 0 Cotton Walters
60-34 05/04/1960 1843 n/a n/a F1 0 0 Cotton S of Temple
60-96 08/09/1960 1200 n/a n/a F? 0 0 Cotton Just S of Temple
62-2 04/27/1962 0020 n/a n/a F? 0 0 Cotton 1 W Temple
62-29 05/26/1962 2000 10 400 F4 0 1 Cotton 4 S Randlett - 4 E Cookietown
65-31 05/08/1965 1400 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Cotton 3 SSE Randlett
67-11 04/12/1967 0145 7 n/a F1 0 0 Cotton Walters - 7 ENE Walters
68-36 05/16/1968 1643 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Cotton 8 SW Temple
69-4 04/16/1969 1530 24 n/a F2 0 1 Cotton S of Devol - 2 ENE Temple
73-4 03/13/1973 1235 7 33 F1 0 0 Cotton 1 N- 6 E Temple
76-14 04/19/1976 1435 0.1 200 F1 0 0 Cotton 10 ENE Walters
79-8 04/10/1979 1625 74 n/a F2 1 (0) 3 Wilbarger TX/ Wichita TX/ Tillman/ Cotton/ Comanche/ Stephens Harrold TX- 9 NNE Electra TX- Grandfield- Pumpkin Center- W of Marlow
79-48 09/02/1979 0355 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Cotton W of Walters
83-71 06/27/1983 1840 0.1 10 F0 0 0 Cotton Just W of Temple
85-5 03/22/1985 2105 0.1 5 F0 0 0 Cotton N of Devol
88-5 03/28/1988 1735 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Cotton 9 SW Walters
93-36 05/08/1993 1605 0.8 50 F0 0 0 Cotton/ Stephens 6 SE Hulen- 6 WNW Empire City
95-7 04/17/1995 1628 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Cotton 4 SW Devol
95-8 04/17/1995 1635 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Cotton SE of Devol
95-9 04/17/1995 1656 2 100 F1 0 0 Cotton 3 N Temple
95-73 07/23/1995 2010 0.5 30 F0 0 0 Cotton/ Comanche 10 NNW Cookietown
95-74 07/23/1995 2016 0.3 30 F0 0 0 Cotton 6 NNW Cookietown
95-75 07/23/1995 2017 0.2 25 F0 0 0 Cotton 7 S Walters
  08/11/1996 1715 0.1 50 F1 0 0 Cotton Walters
  10/21/2000 1641 4 30 F0 0 0 Cotton 3 SSW - 1 NW Walters
  04/23/2003 1616 2 70 F0 0 0 Cotton 20 W Walters (5 S - 3 S Chattanooga)
  10/06/2004 1438 1 25 F0 0 0 Cotton 7 W - 6.3 W Walters
  04/24/2006 1923 6 200 F1 0 0 Cotton / Clay TX 4.8 SSW - 5.8 SE Randlett - 4 WNW Charlie TX

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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