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I wondered how many times Moore, Oklahoma has been hit by tornadoes.

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I don't know if this list is totally up to date but certain areas just seem to be tornado magnets. Wonder if they'll get hit this year. Look at the death and injured column. Several in April and May. There's a small town in Kansas that's been flattened three times.



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Weather Forecast Office

Moore, Oklahoma Tornadoes (1890-Present)​

Weather.gov > Norman, OK > Moore, Oklahoma Tornadoes (1890-Present)
SPC
ID #		DateTime
(CST)		Path
Length
(miles)		Path
Width
(yards)		F-ScaleKilledInjuredCountyPath
04/25/1893164500Cleveland3.5 E "Case" (~15 E Moore)
04/25/189318304531manyCleveland/ PottawatomieSW of Moore - near "Case" (12 E Moore)
37-106/09/193716303532047Canadian/ ClevelandW of Union City - SE of Mustang - near Moore (possibly series)
51-304/05/195113206127F200ClevelandNW of Norman (near Newcastle) - NW of Moore
60-2404/28/196020588500F200ClevelandW and N of Moore
60-2504/28/196021054400F206ClevelandMoore
60-7005/19/19601625n/an/aF200ClevelandMoore
61-4305/06/19612350n/an/aF?00ClevelandBetween Moore and Norman
61-4405/07/19610045n/an/aF?00ClevelandNear Moore
65-6808/31/196514151250F000Oklahoma/ ClevelandNear SW 80th/May - NW Corner of Moore - SE Oklahoma City
73-6911/19/1973193024500F3546McClain/ Cleveland/ OklahomaBlanchard - Moore - Del City - SE Oklahoma City
74-4008/01/197415401.050F100ClevelandMoore (near NW 2nd/Santa Fe)
75-1205/13/19751515250F200ClevelandOKC (southeast of SW 89th/ Western) - N Moore
91-4305/02/199119200.530F100ClevelandMoore
10/04/199819343580F200ClevelandMoore
05/03/19991726381760F536583Grady/ McClain/ Cleveland/ Oklahoma2 SSW Amber - far N Newcastle - SW Oklahoma City - N Moore - S Del City - W Midwest City
05/08/2003161017700F40134Cleveland/ OklahomaMoore - OKC (SE) - Midwest City (SE) - Choctaw (~1/2 mile N of SW 134th and Santa Fe to 1/2 mile ESE of Reno and Choctaw)
06/09/200416350.320F000Cleveland8 E Moore (SE edge of Lake Draper. near SE 140th between Westminster and E Stanley Draper Drive)
05/10/20101620242000EF4249Cleveland/ OklahomaFar north Norman (near Santa Fe/ Indian Hill Road) - south Moore - Lake Draper - I-40/Choctaw - 1.5 SSE Harrah
05/10/201016224250EF100ClevelandSouth and east Moore (near Broadway/Eastern - NE of SE 119th/Sunnylane)
05/10/201016270.550EF100ClevelandFar southeast Moore (near SE 34th St./Sooner Road)
05/20/20131356-1435141900EF524212McClain/ ClevelandNewcastle (3 NW US-277/SH-130) - 4.8 E Moore
03/25/20151734-17501150EF207Cleveland4.5 WNW - 7 SE Moore

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.
 
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Yeah , Oklahoma and Kansas seem to be a real hotbed for tornadoes. We get more than our fair share of them in middle Tennessee also
 
Astonishing. I believe that's where the fraidy hole was invented.
 
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Think the tornado “magnets” have shifted south and east in recent years.
 
The next couple of weeks starting Saturday will be busier than normal. There's gonna be lots of supercells in tornado alley.
 
SteveSS said:
I don't know if this list is totally up to date but certain areas just seem to be tornado magnets. Wonder if they'll get hit this year. Look at the death and injured column. Several in April and May. There's a small town in Kansas that's been flattened three times.



Norman, OK
Weather Forecast Office

Moore, Oklahoma Tornadoes (1890-Present)​

Weather.gov > Norman, OK > Moore, Oklahoma Tornadoes (1890-Present)
SPC
ID #		DateTime
(CST)		Path
Length
(miles)		Path
Width
(yards)		F-ScaleKilledInjuredCountyPath
04/25/1893164500Cleveland3.5 E "Case" (~15 E Moore)
04/25/189318304531manyCleveland/ PottawatomieSW of Moore - near "Case" (12 E Moore)
37-106/09/193716303532047Canadian/ ClevelandW of Union City - SE of Mustang - near Moore (possibly series)
51-304/05/195113206127F200ClevelandNW of Norman (near Newcastle) - NW of Moore
60-2404/28/196020588500F200ClevelandW and N of Moore
60-2504/28/196021054400F206ClevelandMoore
60-7005/19/19601625n/an/aF200ClevelandMoore
61-4305/06/19612350n/an/aF?00ClevelandBetween Moore and Norman
61-4405/07/19610045n/an/aF?00ClevelandNear Moore
65-6808/31/196514151250F000Oklahoma/ ClevelandNear SW 80th/May - NW Corner of Moore - SE Oklahoma City
73-6911/19/1973193024500F3546McClain/ Cleveland/ OklahomaBlanchard - Moore - Del City - SE Oklahoma City
74-4008/01/197415401.050F100ClevelandMoore (near NW 2nd/Santa Fe)
75-1205/13/19751515250F200ClevelandOKC (southeast of SW 89th/ Western) - N Moore
91-4305/02/199119200.530F100ClevelandMoore
10/04/199819343580F200ClevelandMoore
05/03/19991726381760F536583Grady/ McClain/ Cleveland/ Oklahoma2 SSW Amber - far N Newcastle - SW Oklahoma City - N Moore - S Del City - W Midwest City
05/08/2003161017700F40134Cleveland/ OklahomaMoore - OKC (SE) - Midwest City (SE) - Choctaw (~1/2 mile N of SW 134th and Santa Fe to 1/2 mile ESE of Reno and Choctaw)
06/09/200416350.320F000Cleveland8 E Moore (SE edge of Lake Draper. near SE 140th between Westminster and E Stanley Draper Drive)
05/10/20101620242000EF4249Cleveland/ OklahomaFar north Norman (near Santa Fe/ Indian Hill Road) - south Moore - Lake Draper - I-40/Choctaw - 1.5 SSE Harrah
05/10/201016224250EF100ClevelandSouth and east Moore (near Broadway/Eastern - NE of SE 119th/Sunnylane)
05/10/201016270.550EF100ClevelandFar southeast Moore (near SE 34th St./Sooner Road)
05/20/20131356-1435141900EF524212McClain/ ClevelandNewcastle (3 NW US-277/SH-130) - 4.8 E Moore
03/25/20151734-17501150EF207Cleveland4.5 WNW - 7 SE Moore

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.
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They don't call it tornado alley for nothing.
 
I grew up in Kansas in the 50s and 60s and tornadoes (tornado alley) were really common. The nice thing out in the Great Bend and Wichita areas, they didn’t sneak up on you at least in daytime. You could see them coming from way off.

But I’ve now spent almost 50 years in Arkansas and I swear, it seems there have been more tornadoes here in the last 20 years than we ever had in Kansas. They are actually getting on my nerves here now. We had one run along our rear yard property line 2 years ago and flatten a lot of houses. Fortunately we had relatively minor damage. One listing shows 2,474 tornados here since 1950 and 932 in the last 20 years so maybe the frequency isn’t increasing much but just seems like it.

But it does seem that tornado alley has drifted south and east in recent decades.
 
All those people in Moore should stop singing along with Billy Idol.....

 
Supercells are common in Kansas and Oklahoma but they don't have to create tornadoes. I always got some great looks at them when I was a geologist out on the plains.

The Fox newscaster Gregg Garrett got his big break when he was a reporter in Wichita. A tornado was coming for his crew on a highway. They got to an underpass and he held the camera out while the tornado went over him. Tornadoes always followed I-35 from Wichita to Kansas City.

 
Tornadoes are funny. They can flatten your neighbor's house and leave yours untouched. Some scary movies have made up villains but tornadoes are all real. I want to go to the Wakita, OK museum. Wakita was the town that got flattened in the movie Twister. El Reno got hit in the movie Twisters.

 
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