Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 1973

257 events in 59 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 1973, 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 1973 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
257
Deaths
12
Injuries
220
Damage
$33 million
Episodes
59

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
Thunderstorm Wind10800
Tornado8512220$33 million
Hail6400

Every episode, month by month

January 1973

March 1973

April 1973

May 1973

June 1973

July 1973

August 1973

September 1973

October 1973

November 1973

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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.