Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 1987

626 events in 74 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 1987, 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 1987 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
626
Deaths
1
Injuries
26
Damage
$3.2 million
Episodes
74

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
Hail387110
Thunderstorm Wind21607
Tornado2309$3.2 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1987

March 1987

April 1987

May 1987

June 1987

July 1987

August 1987

September 1987

October 1987

November 1987

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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.