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Ottawa County, Oklahoma Tornadoes, 1875-2008

OK# Date Time
(CST)		 Length
(miles)		 Width
yards		 F-
Scale		 Killed Injured Counties Path
  04/25/1904   70 440   4 30 Tulsa/ Rogers/ Craig/ Mayes/ Delaware/ Ottawa near Broken Arrow - Inola - near Ketchum - near Chouteau - near Afton - near Fairland
  04/11/1920 1730 s 17       Ottawa 15 N Miami
  01/04/1922 215   440     13 Tulsa/ Ottawa near Turley... Miami... Commerce... Picher
35-1 02/24/1935 1830 10 100   1 20 Ottawa near Miami - Commerce - Douthatt - Baxter Springs/Cherokee Co KS - MO
  05/29/1938 300 s n   0 0 Ottawa Quapaw
56-13 04/03/1956 0010 42 400
F4
 0 59 (46) Ottawa/ Cherokee KS/ Jasper MO Near Narcissa - Miami - Quapaw - Baxter Springs KS - near Joplin MO - near Cartersville MO
57-79 05/24/1957 2200 1.0 n/a
F1
 0 0 Ottawa Quapaw and E of Picher
60-2 02/09/1960 1445 8 200
F1
 0 0 Ottawa Near Miami - 3 E Quapaw
60-49 05/05/1960 1830 37 500
F2
 0 2 Craig/ Ottawa E of Vinita - near I-44 at Missouri State Line
60-95 08/07/1960 2315 5 200
F3
 0 0 Ottawa 2 N Quapaw
61-68 05/21/1961 1940 n/a n/a
F2
 0 0 Ottawa Near Fairland
61-78 07/22/1961 1218 n/a n/a
F2
 0 0 Ottawa 5 E Fairland
65-42 05/15/1965 1500 n/a n/a
F2
 0 0 Ottawa S part of Miami
67-3 01/25/1967 2303 2 n/a
F2
 0 6 Ottawa Near Afton
67-18 05/29/1967 1600 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Ottawa Between Afton and Fairland
67-35 06/11/1967 136 n/a n/a
F0
 0 0 Ottawa W of Miami
68-40 05/23/1968 0030 n/a n/a
F1
 0 0 Ottawa 5 W Picher
69-7 04/16/1969 1820 0.3 n/a
F0
 0 0 Ottawa 7 E Miami
71-13 05/05/1971 1650 n/a n/a
F1
 0 0 Ottawa Near Picher
72-30 12/29/1972 2315 31 30
F2
 0 0 Mayes/ Craig/ Delaware/ Ottawa 2 S Ketchum - 9 E Miami (not continuous)
73-8 03/28/1973 1640 28 33
F1
 0 0 Craig/ Ottawa 15 W Welch - near Miami
73-14 04/21/1973 2040 5 40
F1
 0 0 Craig/ Ottawa 5 E Vinita - 1 SW Afton
73-64 09/24/1973 1840 21 100
F3
 0 14 Craig/ Ottawa 2 NE Vinita - SE edge of Miami
75-9 04/24/1975 1800 5 75
F2
 0 3 Craig/ Ottawa 2 NE Bluejacket - 5 SW Miami
80-7 04/07/1980 1650 25 440
F3
 0 4 Mayes/ Craig/ Delaware/ Ottawa 4 N Pensacola - near Bernice - southern Ottawa County
84-2 03/15/1984 1538 2 30
F0
 0 0 Ottawa 1 S Afton
88-11 09/18/1988 400 3 33
F0
 0 0 Ottawa 5 ESE- 7 E Miami
  04/21/1996 1915 0.1 25
F1
 0 0 Ottawa 2 W Fairland
  05/26/1997 1925 0.1 30
F0
 0 0 Ottawa 0.5 N Picher
  05/04/2003 1655 5 880
F1
 0 0 Ottawa 2 S Narcissa - 2 NE Fairland
  03/31/2008 1244 4 200
EF1
 0 0 Ottawa/ Newton MO 3.4 E - 6.25 ENE Wyandotte OK - 2 SE Seneca MO
  05/10/2008 1620 76 1760
EF4
 21 350 Craig/ Ottawa/ Newton MO/ Barry MO 9.2 NNW Welch - Picher - Quapaw - 3 NE Peoria - Granby MO - Newtonia MO - 3.9 NNE Fairview MO - Purdy MO - 0.2 WSW McDowell MO (29 miles; 6 fatalities/150 injuries in OK)
  05/10/2008 1648 2 200
EF1
 0 0 Ottawa 4.5 E Quapaw - 2.1 N Peoria - then merge

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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