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May 17

19 entries from the federal record fall on May 17, across every year it covers.

Tornadoes

Tornadoes rated F3/EF3 or stronger, or that killed, on this date.

  1. 1981F4, 33.6 mile path Seminole, OK; Okfuskee, OK; Okmulgee, OK
  2. 1989F3, 3 mile path, 1 killed Williamson, TX
  3. 2020EF3, 3.9 mile path, 1 killed Acadia, LA
  4. 1953F3, 41.6 mile path Richland, LA; West Carroll, LA; East Carroll, LA
  5. 1954F3, 0.1 mile path Lea, NM
  6. 1981F3, 10.2 mile path Pottawatomie, OK
  7. 1981F3, 15.4 mile path Seminole, OK
  8. 1982F3, 46 mile path Freeborn, MN; Steele, MN
  9. 1995F3, 14 mile path Vernon, MO
  10. 1996F3, 18 mile path Roberts, SD; Big Stone, MN
  11. 2000F3, 11.5 mile path Lincoln, NE
  12. 2019EF3, 2.1 mile path Frontier, NE
  13. 2019EF3, 29.6 mile path Meade, KS; Clark, KS; Ford, KS

Earthquakes

Magnitude 5 or more in the lower 48 and Hawaii, 6.5 or more in Alaska, on this date (local time).

  1. 1940M5.3, near Joshua Tree, CA San Bernardino County, CA
  2. 1940M5.2, near Joshua Tree, CA San Bernardino County, CA
  3. 1986M6.5, near Atka, Alaska Aleutians West Census Area, AK
  4. 1993M6.1, near Big Pine, California Inyo County, CA

Wildfires

Fires of 50,000 acres or more that began on this date.

  1. 2010Turquoise Lake Fire, 86,859 acres AK
  2. 1989Ingraham Fire, 85,371 acres FL