Tornado, Cleveland
- When
- October 5, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Cleveland County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 8 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.070, -97.280
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, October 5, 1970
5 tornado, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 4
- Injuries
- 85
- Property damage
- $75 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
5 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Pottawatomie
- When
- October 5, 3:42 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 15.2 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Deaths
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 80 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25 million
- Coordinates
- 35.330, -96.930
Hail, Pottawatomie
- When
- October 5, 3:42 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.280, -96.900
Tornado, Pottawatomie
- When
- October 5, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 16.4 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.100, -97.150
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- October 5, 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 6.8 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25 million
- Coordinates
- 35.470, -96.720
Tornado, Okfuskee
- When
- October 5, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Okfuskee County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $25 million
- Coordinates
- 35.520, -96.620
Hail, Grady
- When
- October 5, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Grady County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.880, -97.680
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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More
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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: 10093361, 10093362, 10093363, 10093364, 10093365, 10093366, 10093367.