User:ChessEric/Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 2, 1959
Appearance
Type | Tornado outbreak |
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Duration | March 31 – April 2, 1959 |
Tornadoes confirmed | 17[1][2] |
Max. rating1 | F4 tornado |
Duration of tornado outbreak2 | 3 days |
Fatalities | 7 fatalities, 83 injuries |
Damage | $3.635 million (1959 USD)[3] |
Areas affected | Great Plains, Midwest, Southeast |
Part of the tornado outbreaks of 1959 1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale 2Time from first tornado to last tornado |
Meteorological synopsis
[edit]A low-pressure system formed over Northeastern New Mexico and moved into Oklahoma.[4][5][6]
Confirmed tornadoes
[edit]FU | F0 | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | Total |
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0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
May 3 event
[edit]F# | Location | County / Parish | State | Start coord. |
Time (UTC) | Path length | Max. width | Summary |
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F2 | N of Morrison | Noble | OK | 36°18′N 97°02′W / 36.3°N 97.03°W | 22:55–? | 2.7 miles (4.3 km) | 10 yards (9.1 m) | This strong tornado caused considerable damage to two farmsteads as it moved northeastward. Losses totaled $2,500.[8] |
F1 | N of Pawnee | Pawnee | OK | 36°22′N 96°50′W / 36.37°N 96.83°W | 23:00–? | 0.1 miles (0.16 km) | 10 yards (9.1 m) | A tornado touched down and slightly damaged a farmstead. One person was slightly injured by flying debris and losses totaled $250.[9] |
F3 | Silver City to N of Lawrence Creek | Creek | OK | 36°06′N 96°30′W / 36.1°N 96.5°W | 23:00–? | 3.8 miles (6.1 km) | 100 yards (91 m) | Six homes, two churches, a school, businesses, and other buildings were damaged or destroyed by this intense, multi-vortex tornado. Three people were injured from being thrown by the tornado while losses totaled $250,000.[4][10] |
F0 | OK | |||||||
F3 | Western Callisburg | TX | See section on this tornado | |||||
F1 | ||||||||
F3 | See section on this tornado | |||||||
F4 | See section on this tornado | |||||||
F3 |
May 4 event
[edit]F# | Location | County / Parish | State | Start coord. |
Time (UTC) | Path length | Max. width | Summary |
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F1 |
May 5 event
[edit]F# | Location | County / Parish | State | Start coord. |
Time (UTC) | Path length | Max. width | Summary |
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F2 | ||||||||
F2 | [11] | |||||||
F2 | [12] |
Western Callisburg, Texas
[edit]F3 tornado | |
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Max. rating1 | F3 tornado |
Fatalities | 16 injuries |
1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale |
Enos–Southern Kingston–Woodville, Oklahoma
[edit]F3 tornado | |
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Max. rating1 | F3 tornado |
Fatalities | 10 injuries |
1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale |
Aquilla–Vaughan–Southern Hillsboro, Texas
[edit]F4 tornado | |
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Max. rating1 | F4 tornado |
Fatalities | 6 fatalities, 31 injuries |
1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale |
Non-tornadic impacts
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "March 31, 1959 Tornadoes". Tornado History Project. Storm Prediction Center. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "April 1-2, 1959 Tornadoes". Tornado History Project. Storm Prediction Center. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Tornado Summaries". National Weather Service. National Centers for Environmental Information. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ a b c "Storm Data Publication | IPS | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)". www.ncdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Climatological Data National Summary Publication | IPS | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)". www.ncdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "North America Tornado Cases 1950 to 1959". bangladeshtornadoes.org. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ Brooks, Harold E. (April 2004). "On the Relationship of Tornado Path Length and Width to Intensity". Weather and Forecasting. 19 (2). Boston: American Meteorological Society: 310. doi:10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0310:OTROTP>2.0.CO;2. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
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: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - ^ Oklahoma Event Report: F2 Tornado. National Weather Service (Report). National Centers for Environmental Information. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ Oklahoma Event Report: F1 Tornado. National Weather Service (Report). National Centers for Environmental Information. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ Oklahoma Event Report: F3 Tornado. National Weather Service (Report). National Centers for Environmental Information. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ Florida Event Report: F2 Tornado. NCDC (Report). National Climatic Data Center. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ "Florida F2". Tornado History Projects. Storm Predicition Center. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Callisburg1
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Oklahoma Event Report: F3 Tornado. NCDC (Report). National Climatic Data Center. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ "Non-tornadic impacts". National Weather Service. National Centers for Environmental Information. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
Category:Tornadoes of 1959
Category:F4 tornadoes
Category:Tornadoes in Texas
Category:Tornadoes in Oklahoma
Category:Tornadoes in Florida
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