Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 1950

25 events in 17 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 1950, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Oklahoma in 1950 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Oklahoma

The year

Events
25
Deaths
6
Injuries
45
Damage
$1.7 million
Episodes
17

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado25645$1.7 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1950

March 1950

April 1950

May 1950

June 1950

September 1950

October 1950

More

Every year in OklahomaEvery state in 1950Tornadoes in Oklahoma in 19501951

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.