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Clay County, TX Tornadoes Prior to 1950 | |||||||||
# | Date | Time (CST) |
Path Length (miles) |
Path Width (yards) |
F-Scale | Killed | Injured | County | Path |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
03/27/1939 | Clay | Unspecified path | |||||||
05/18/1946 | 1700 | 325 | 4 | svrl | Clay/ Montague/ Denton | Unspecified path | |||
Clay County, TX Tornadoes (1950-Present*) | |||||||||
# | Date | Time (CST) |
Path Length (miles) |
Path Width (yards) |
F-Scale | Killed | Injured | County | Path |
1 | 08/11/1953 | 1900 | 0.1 | 880 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Wichita/ Clay | Wichita Falls and Suburban Areas |
2 | 05/01/1954 | 2115 | n/a | 67 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Clay/ Montague | near Buffalo Springs - near Bowie |
3 | 04/05/1955 | 0830 | 0.1 | 10 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Clay | near Henrietta |
4 | 04/06/1955 | 0245 | 22 | 10 | F3 | 0 | 0 | Jack/ Clay | near Antelope - near Newport |
5 | 08/08/1956 | 1600 | 2 | 50 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Clay | Byers (west side) |
6 | 04/02/1958 | 1755 | 16 | 333 | F3 | 1 | 14 | Wichita/ Clay | Wichita Falls - near 'Deandale' |
7 | 04/03/1964 | 1553 | 1.5 | 23 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | Near Red River NE of Byers |
8 | 05/20/1967 | 1140 | 0.5 | 33 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 6 SE Henrietta |
9 | 05/16/1968 | 1435 | 0.1 | 17 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | between Henrietta and Bellevue |
10 | 09/27/1970 | 1100 | 0.5 | 17 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 7 N Petrolia |
11 | 08/08/1972 | 2015 | 1 | 67 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 3 E Byers |
12 | 08/13/1972 | 1915 | 0.3 | 20 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | Prairie Flower Community |
13 | 04/10/1979 | 1750 | 47 | 1320 | F4 | 42 | 1740 | Archer TX/ Wichita TX/ Clay TX/ Jefferson OK | 3 ENE Holliday TX- Wichita Falls TX- 4 E Byers TX- NNE of Waurika OK [All fatalities and injuries were in Texas] |
14 | 05/14/1986 | 1830 | 20 | 250 | F3 | 0 | 4 | Archer/ Clay | 5 SE Archer City- Windthorst- 15 S Henrietta |
15 | 05/27/1990 | 1630-1631 | 0.2 | 10 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 15 S Henrietta |
16 | 05/27/1990 | 1635-1640 | 2 | 50 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 1 SW - 3 S Bluegrove |
17 | 05/08/1993 | 1608 | 0.1 | 20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 13 NE Henrietta (8 SW Ryan OK) |
18 | 05/08/1993 | 1620 | 0.1 | 20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | N of Stanfield |
19 | 05/08/1993 | 1742-1806 | 8 | 90 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Archer/ Clay | 2 ESE Scotland- 5 W Bluegrove |
20 | 04/19/1995 | 1843 | 0.1 | 20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 2 SSE Joy |
21 | 05/08/1997 | 1915 | 0.1 | 23 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 10 W Bluegrove (on FM172 bridge south of Lake Arrowhead) |
22 | 05/08/1997 | 1955 | 0.1 | 23 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 5 S Deer Creek |
23 | 06/16/1997 | 2050-2105 | 7 | 100 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 6 SW - 2 N Charlie |
24 | 04/26/1998 | 1635 | 0.2 | 50 | F1 | 0 | 2 | Clay | Bellevue |
25 | 07/12/2000 | 1620-1621 | 0.3 | 30 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 7 N Henrietta |
26 | 05/30/2001 | 1745 | 0.3 | 25 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 6 N Jolly |
27 | 04/30/2004 | 1302-1305 | 1 | 100 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 3 S - 3 SSE Petrolia |
28 | 04/24/2006 | 1923-1941 | 6 | 200 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Cotton OK/ Clay TX | 4.8 SSW Randlett OK - 4 WNW Charlie TX |
29 | 08/18/2007 | 1853-1857 | 1 | 100 | EF1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 1 NNE - 2 NNE Thornberry |
30 | 05/19/2015 | 1721-1725 | 1 | 200 | EF0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 4 S Ryan OK |
31 | 05/19/2015 | 1745 | 0.2 | 30 | EF0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 4 S Joy |
32 | 04/30/2019 | 1534-1536 | 1.5 | 40 | EF? | 0 | 0 | Clay | 5 NW - 6 NW Dean |
33 | 04/30/2019 | 1536-1556 | 10 | 300 | EF1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | Charlie |
34 | 05/22/2020 | 1823-1835 | 2.5 | 150 | EF? | 0 | 0 | Clay | 5 NE Shannon - 2.5 S Joy |
35 | 05/22/2020 | 1827-1835 | 2.3 | 50 | EF1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 4 SW - 3.5 S Charlie |
36 | 05/04/2023 | 1806-1806 | 0.1 | 20 | EF0 | 0 | 0 | Clay | Bellevue (northwest side) |
37 | 06/15/2023 | 1905-1906 | 0.5 | 50 | EF1 | 0 | 0 | Clay | 5 SE Henrietta |
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.