Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 1965

210 events in 54 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 1965, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Oklahoma in 1965 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
210
Deaths
0
Injuries
12
Damage
$6.9 million
Episodes
54

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
Tornado81012$6.9 million
Hail7200
Thunderstorm Wind5700

Every episode, month by month

February 1965

March 1965

April 1965

May 1965

June 1965

July 1965

August 1965

September 1965

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Every year in OklahomaEvery state in 1965Tornadoes in Oklahoma in 196519641966

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.