Volume 14 , Issue 16

Duchess of Weaselskin

While a chilly cold front was dumping about an inch of snow at the north end of the Vallecito Res., North of Bayfield, Colorado, was passing through our neck of the woods, Northwest Oklahoma was experiencing a full day of tornado watches and warnings Saturday, April 14, 2012.

From Woodward through Woods county, a bird-echo cloud formation traveled in a NNE direction towards Wichita, Kansas via Shattuck, Mutual, Waynoka, Hopeton, Dacoma, Ingersoll, Cherokee, Byron, Amorita, Driftwood and other towns leading towards the Kansas border, in the northwest corner of Oklahoma.

News9.com, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma had the following news and wire reports of the Woodward tornado that struck around midnight, 15 April 2012. The path of that midnight tornado was reported as a quarter mile wide and two miles long. But that was not the first tornado to pass near Woodward. There was an earlier tornado sighting in the earlier evening of 14 April 2012. Warning sirens malfunctioned when lightening struck the sirens towers a few minutes before the midnight tornado struck the west side of Woodward.

It was Wednesday, 9 April 1947, when another deadly tornado wreck havoc on Woodward, Oklahoma. The 9 April 1947 Woodward tornado slashed a deadly 220-mile path across Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. It was the longest, widest and most destructive tornado to ever occur in that area in 1947. There were reported 169 deaths, 890 injured and $9,700,000 of estimated property damage. Of those 169 deaths, 101 persons were in Oklahoma with 95 at Woodward and others in Gage and Shattuck.

The April 1947, tornado was first reported at 5:52 p.m. CST a half mile southeast of White Deer, Texas and disappeared 6-miles north of Nashville, Kansas (Whitehorse) about 11:00 p.m. In Woodward, the path was 1.8 miles wide, with forward movement of the storm averaging 42 miles per hour.

There was reported that a Woodward woman (Wilma Nelson) survived two Woodward tornadoes decades apart. An eighty-three year-old Wilma Nelson that survived the 14 April 2012 Woodward, Oklahoma tornado, survived the 9 April 1947 tornado, 67 years earlier. Wilma Nelson was only eighteen years old during the 1947 tornado, which had a F5 tornado rating, striking at 8:42p.m., without any type of warning.

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