Thunderstorm Wind in Polk County, Texas
Thunderstorm Wind May 17, 1986 · Polk County, Texas
65
Wind speed (unit not recorded)
3
Deaths
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
NOAA’s online database has no written narrative for tornadoes before 1996 — just the numbers above, transcribed from the original storm logs. Written accounts from this era do exist in NOAA’s monthly Storm Data publications (scanned, back to 1959).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10145395. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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