Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Woodward
09.04.1947 · Woodward · Oklahoma · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Injured
980
Fatalities
181
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Track / path
- Glazier to Higgins to Woodward
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- wikipedia.org
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Funnel observed
- Yes
- Injured
- 980
- Fatalities
- 181
- Position
- Woodward
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 2 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
en.wikipedia.org open externally
Source
Quelle
wikipedia.org
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
The 1947 Glazier - Higgins - Woodward tornadoes were a series of related tornadoes spawned by a single supercell that swept through Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas on Wednesday, April 9, 1947. Most of the damage and all the deaths are still blamed on one large F5 tornado, known as the Glazier - Higgins - Woodward Tornado, that traveled nearly 125 miles from Texas to Oklahoma. This event was often compared to the Tri-State Tornado, because it was originally thought to have left a 219-mile path, but it is now believed to have a been part of a family of eight or nine tornadoes.
Key facts
- Date
- 09.04.1947
- Time
- 12:00:00
- Location
- Woodward
- Region
- Oklahoma
- Country
- United States
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