Tornado, Craig
- When
- July 24, 3:46 PM CST
- Where
- Craig County to Vinita
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.750, -95.430
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, July 24, 1994
6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 7 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 UTC.
Event by event
6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Craig
- When
- July 24, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Craig County, White Oak
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.730, -95.420
Hail, Craig
- When
- July 24, 4:07 PM CST
- Where
- Craig County, White Oak
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.762, -95.208 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Ottawa
- When
- July 24, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Ottawa County, Wyandotte
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.836, -94.810 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in northeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon of July 24th. The storms produced 2 small, brief F-0 tornadoes in Craig County. The first tornado touched down briefly at 1546CST 15 miles west northwest of Vinita, and the second tornado touched down briefly at 1550CST 10 miles northwest of White Oak. Nickel-size hail fell 4 miles northwest of White Oak, and dime-size hail fell 6 miles northeast of Wyandotte.
Hail, Seminole
- When
- July 24, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Seminole County, Seminole
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.168, -96.615 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorms in central Oklahoma during the late afternoon and early evening hours on the 24th produced hail up to golf ball-size and damaging lightning. Lightning started a fire which destroyed a barn 5.5 miles north-northwest of Seminole. Lightning started a small fire in a mobile home near Seminole.
Hail, Seminole
- When
- July 24, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Seminole County, Seminole
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.168, -96.615 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorms in central Oklahoma during the late afternoon and early evening hours on the 24th produced hail up to golf ball-size and damaging lightning. Lightning started a fire which destroyed a barn 5.5 miles north-northwest of Seminole. Lightning started a small fire in a mobile home near Seminole.
Hail, Seminole
- When
- July 24, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Seminole County, Seminole
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.168, -96.615 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorms in central Oklahoma during the late afternoon and early evening hours on the 24th produced hail up to golf ball-size and damaging lightning. Lightning started a fire which destroyed a barn 5.5 miles north-northwest of Seminole. Lightning started a small fire in a mobile home near Seminole.
Hail, Osage
- When
- July 24, 11:38 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County, Avant
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.629, -96.398 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorm Wind, Tulsa
- When
- July 24, 11:50 PM CST
- Where
- Tulsa County, Near Collinsville
- Coordinates
- 36.121, -95.941 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 24, 1994
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, July 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 24, 1994
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 24, 1994
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 24, 1994
- Hail in Michigan, July 24, 1994
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, July 24, 1994
- Damaging Winds in Washington, July 24, 1994
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1994Every state in 1994This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1994Warnings in Oklahoma, July 1994
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: 10343038, 10343039, 10343040, 10340974, 10340775, 10344591, 10344592, 10341098, 10344361.