Tornado, Oklahoma
- When
- July 16, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.420, -97.620
Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, July 16, 1979
1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Caddo
- When
- July 16, 6:09 PM CST
- Where
- Caddo County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.070, -98.250
Thunderstorm Wind, Greer
- When
- July 16, 6:42 PM CST
- Where
- Greer County
- Coordinates
- 34.970, -99.380
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Wyoming, July 16, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 16, 1979
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 16, 1979
- Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 1979
- Tornadoes in Colorado, July 16, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 16, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 16, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 16, 1979
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1979Every state in 1979This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1979
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: 10105444, 10105445, 10105446.