Tornado, Alfalfa
- When
- May 17, 7:32 PM CST
- Where
- Alfalfa County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -98.180
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 17, 1983
5 tornado, 3 hail, 2 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
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Major
- When
- May 17, 7:35 PM CST
- Where
- Major County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 36.270, -98.470
Tornado, Major
- When
- May 17, 7:35 PM CST
- Where
- Major County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 36.270, -98.520
Hail, Custer
- When
- May 17, 7:40 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.670, -98.880
Tornado, Blaine
- When
- May 17, 8:05 PM CST
- Where
- Blaine County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 35.820, -98.580
Hail, Blaine
- When
- May 17, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Blaine County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.850, -98.450
Hail, Jackson
- When
- May 17, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.630, -99.330
Thunderstorm Wind, Jackson
- When
- May 17, 9:05 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Coordinates
- 34.470, -99.650
Tornado, Canadian
- When
- May 17, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Canadian County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.550, -98.050
Thunderstorm Wind, Garfield
- When
- May 17, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Garfield County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -97.870
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
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1983Every state in 1983This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1983
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: 10105804, 10105805, 10106667, 10106668, 10106669, 10106670, 10106671, 10106672, 10106673, 10106674.