Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 1951

45 events in 23 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 1951, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Oklahoma in 1951 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
45
Deaths
0
Injuries
16
Damage
$1.3 million
Episodes
23

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
Tornado45016$1.3 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1951

April 1951

May 1951

June 1951

July 1951

August 1951

September 1951

October 1951

More

Every year in OklahomaEvery state in 1951Tornadoes in Oklahoma in 195119501952

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.