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Coal County, Oklahoma Tornadoes, 1875-2008

OK# Date Time
(CST)
Length
(miles)
Width
yards
F-
Scale
Killed Injured Counties Path
  03/26/1898 2100       0 4 Coal Lehigh
  05/05/1905 1430 3 440     10 Coal near Centrahoma
17-5 06/01/1917 1600   200   11 75 Coal Coalgate
19-4 04/09/1919 0200 20     1 4 Pontotoc/ Coal near Stonewall
  05/08/1936 1610 0.25 100   0 1 Coal 7 NW Atoka
50-7 04/28/1950 1930 0.8 100
F2
0 0 Coal near Cottonwood
54-28 05/01/1954 1800 0.1 33
F1
0 0 Coal 1 E Coalgate
54-46 07/23/1954 1645 0.3 440
F2
0 0 Coal 0.5 SE Centrahoma
57-85 05/25/1957 0010 n/a n/a
F1
0 0 Coal near Lehigh
63-2 03/18/1963 1730 n/a n/a
F2
0 0 Coal Just N of Tupelo
63-4 04/24/1963 1830 n/a n/a
F?
0 0 Coal 4 ENE Lula
81-13 05/13/1981 1545 n/a n/a
F1
0 0 Coal E of Lula
81-14 05/13/1981 1610 5 100
F2
0 0 Coal Near Lehigh
82-84 06/04/1982 2000 0.1 5
F0
0 0 Coal Near Lehigh
92-21 05/11/1992 1355 12 150
F3
0 1 Coal 3 NNW Tupelo - 3 N Centrahoma
92-22 05/11/1992 1355 1.0 50
F1
0 0 Coal 4 NNW- 3 N Tupelo
92-24 05/11/1992 1440 10 300
F2
0 0 Coal/ Pittsburg 8 SW Ashland- 5 W Kiowa
92-27 05/11/1992 1515 4 75
F0
0 0 Coal/ Atoka 2 N Cairo- 5 W Chockie
93-12 04/24/1993 2155 0.1 20
F0
0 0 Coal 4 NE Centrahoma
  05/25/1997 1948 0.1 25
F0
0 0 Coal 2 N Tupelo
  04/11/2001 0340 15 400
F2
0 0 Pontotoc/ Coal/ Pontotoc 3 WSW Jesse - 2 NNE Lula
  04/11/2001 0425 13 200
F2
1 1 Coal/ Atoka 3 SE Coalgate - 1 NW Wardville
  05/20/2001 1815 0.1 150
F0
0 0 Coal 4 NW Tupelo
  05/20/2001 1840 0.2 30
F0
0 0 Coal 5 NE Centrahoma
  05/09/2006 1759 0.2 20
F0
0 0 Coal 1 E Olney

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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