Hail, Cleveland
- When
- February 20, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Cleveland County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.330, -97.500
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, February 20, 1976
5 hail, 3 tornado, 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Oklahoma
- When
- February 20, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.420, -97.380
Hail, Lincoln
- When
- February 20, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.680, -97.070
Tornado, Osage
- When
- February 20, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 36.730, -96.400
Hail, Payne
- When
- February 20, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Payne County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.120, -96.700
Tornado, Garvin
- When
- February 20, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Garvin County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3.8 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.830, -97.620
Hail, Canadian
- When
- February 20, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Canadian County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.430, -98.250
Tornado, Sequoyah
- When
- February 20, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Sequoyah County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.520, -94.750
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
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: 10093307, 10093308, 10093309, 10093310, 10093311, 10093312, 10093313, 10093314.