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Beckham County, Oklahoma Tornadoes, 1875-2008

OK# Date Time
(CST)		 Length
(miles)		 Width
yards		 F-
Scale		 Killed Injured Counties Path
  03/17/1905 1600 5 880     16 Beckham near "Poarch" (3 E Carter; Was in and listed as Roger Mills county... but area is now part of Beckham county)
  05/06/1930 2240 10 300   0 3 Beckham near Delhi
33-4 10/14/1933 2130 1 100   3 1 Beckham 8 SE Sayre
  04/18/1941 2300 2 440   0 0 Beckham 6 NE - 4 E Sayre
  01/26/1944 1835   660   0 3 Beckham near Elk City
  03/18/1948 2000 15 n   0 3 Beckham Delhi... Sayre and Carter
  10/09/1949 2315 16 440   0 0 Beckham/ Washita Elk City - near Canute - near Foss
50-8 05/04/1950 2130 6 300
F2
 0 0 Beckham 3 NW - 6 N Carter
51-18 05/16/1951 1000 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham near Erick
51-22 05/19/1951 1915 n/a n/a
F1
 0 0 Beckham near Mayfield
51-24 05/19/1951 2012 n/a 220
F0
 0 0 Beckham near Elk City
52-1 04/08/1952 1645 46 100
F0
 0 0 Beckham/ Roger Mills/ Dewey 3 SW Sayre - near Leedey (* not continuous)
52-2 04/20/1952 1530 n/a 20
F1
 0 0 Harmon/ Beckham/ Roger Mills/ Dewey 2 S Vinson; 4 E Erick; near Sayre; 10 NWW Leedey - near Vici (* not continuous)
53-44 07/07/1953 1700 n/a n/a
F1
 0 0 Beckham Near Mayfield
55-28 05/25/1955 1805 4 300
F0
 0 0 Beckham near Mayfield
55-52 06/02/1955 1500 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham E of Erick
55-58 06/08/1955 1130 1.0 500
F1
 0 0 Beckham 2.5 SE Sayre
59-29 05/04/1959 1930 10 200
F2
 0 1 Beckham 1.5 SW Carter - Carter - 8 NE Carter
61-70 06/02/1961 1825 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham 4 W Elk City
62-1 04/26/1962 1830 4 300
F3
 0 0 Beckham 1.5 N- 6 NE Sayre
64-40 06/04/1964 1630 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham 8 SE Erick
65-57 06/01/1965 1815 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham Just SE of Erick
67-17 05/05/1967 900 0.3 200
F1
 0 0 Beckham 4 SSE Erick
68-1 04/02/1968 2100 1.4 n/a
F2
 0 0 Beckham Sayre
69-11 05/02/1969 2052 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham 10 S Sweetwater
69-15 05/15/1969 0001 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham NW of Erick
72-13 05/22/1972 1900 0.1 30
F1
 0 0 Beckham S of Erick
72-18 06/24/1972 200 0.1 20
F1
 0 0 Beckham 7 NNE Sayre
73-65 10/10/1973 730 36 n/a
F1
 0 0 Beckham/ Roger Mills 5 W Sayre - near Angora
75-8 03/27/1975 230 20 150
F1
 0 0 Beckham/ Washita/ Custer 10 SW- 10 NE Elk City
75-16 05/21/1975 1843 0.5 50
F1
 0 0 Beckham 5 SW Erick
77-22 05/16/1977 1700 7 800
F3
 0 0 Beckham Near Sweetwater
77-23 05/16/1977 1724 18 1320
F3
 0 0 Beckham/ Roger Mills Near Mayfield - Cheyenne Airport (path not continuous)
80-9 04/24/1980 1900 0.3 50
F1
 0 1 Beckham N part of Elk City
82-37 05/11/1982 1918 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Beckham 7 SE Sayre
82-50 05/16/1982 645 0.5 50
F2
 0 0 Beckham Near Elk City
83-5 04/22/1983 1515 0.1 50
F1
 0 0 Beckham 2 E Sayre
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
86-2 03/17/1986 1755 34 100
F1
 0 0 Greer/ Beckham/ Washita 2 W Plainview- S of Delhi- 5 S Carter- N of Retrop- 2 N Canute
88-14 11/15/1988 840 0.1 25
F0
 0 0 Beckham Erick
89-2 03/27/1989 1412 0.2 10
F0
 0 0 Beckham 7 S Elk City
89-3 04/25/1989 1931 0.1 20
F0
 0 0 Beckham 6 SW Erick
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
91-47 05/15/1991 2030 0.3 50
F0
 0 0 Beckham 1 SE Sayre
91-49 05/15/1991 2230 0.5 50
F0
 0 0 Beckham 1 SE Sayre
93-2 03/29/1993 1612 0.1 25
F0
 0 0 Beckham 2 W Elk City
93-15 04/28/1993 1740 0.1 20
F0
 0 0 Beckham 3 W Retrop
93-34 05/07/1993 1922 0.1 15
F0
 0 0 Beckham 3 NE Sayre
94-38 08/17/1994 1816 2 40
F1
 0 0 Beckham 1.5 N- 0.5 S Carter
95-38 05/22/1995 2011 0.1 30
F0
 0 0 Beckham Near Texola
  04/02/1999 2013 6 50
F1
 0 0 Greer/ Beckham 4 NW Willow - 2 SW Carter
  05/31/1999 1758 0.1 25
F0
 0 0 Beckham 9 S Erick
  05/31/1999 1818 0.5 50
F0
 0 0 Beckham 8 SE Erick
  10/09/2001 1339 1 50
F0
 0 0 Beckham 6 WNW - 6 NW Sayre
  10/09/2001 1342 0.1 25
F0
 0 0 Beckham 7.5 WNW Sayre
  10/09/2001 1342 4.5 200
F0
 0 0 Beckham 0.5 SW New Liberty - 7 NNW Sayre
  10/09/2001 1350 0.1 25
F0
 0 0 Beckham 6 NNW Sayre
  10/09/2001 1412 3 50
F1
 0 0 Roger Mills/ Beckham 2 SE - 3 ENE Berlin
  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
  05/16/2002 2305 0.5 100
F0
 0 0 Beckham 4 N Texola
  04/15/2003 1755 1.5 200
F1
 0 1 Beckham 2 SSW - 0.5 SSE Sweetwater
  05/05/2007 1904 8 150
EF3
 0 1 Beckham/ Roger Mills 2.5 S Sweetwater - Sweetwater - 5 N Sweetwater

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.

Compilation © 2006 Doug Speheger. Used with permission.
   
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