Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 1968

284 events in 56 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 1968, 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 1968 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
284
Deaths
0
Injuries
15
Damage
$1.6 million
Episodes
56

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
Hail16800
Thunderstorm Wind6000
Tornado56015$1.6 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1968

March 1968

April 1968

May 1968

June 1968

July 1968

August 1968

September 1968

October 1968

November 1968

December 1968

More

Every year in OklahomaEvery state in 1968Tornadoes in Oklahoma in 196819671969

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.