Tornado, Le Flore
- When
- May 5, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Le Flore County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 26.4 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Deaths
- 16 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 58 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.730, -95.030
Tornadoes in Oklahoma, May 5, 1961
3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 16
- Injuries
- 58
- Property damage
- $275,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
Event by event
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Choctaw
- When
- May 5, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Choctaw County
- Rating
- F3
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 34.020, -95.500
Tornado, McCurtain
- When
- May 5, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 9.5 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.400, -94.800
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 5, 1961
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, May 5, 1961
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 5, 1961
- Hail in Texas, May 5, 1961
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 5, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 5, 1961
- Tornado in Colorado, May 5, 1961
- Hail in Illinois, May 5, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 5, 1961
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1961Every state in 1961This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1961
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10092640, 10092856, 10092857.