Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, March 6, 1994

Name: Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, March 6, 1994
Start: 1994-03-06T21:25
End: 1994-03-06T22:40
Location: Oklahoma

March 6, 1994 · 6 events in 3 counties and zones

5 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 5 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
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Nowata

When: March 6, 9:25 PM CST
Where: Nowata County, Wann
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Coordinates: 36.799, -95.617 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Tornado, Nowata

When: March 6, 9:40 PM CST
Where: Nowata County, Lenapah
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Coordinates: 36.850, -95.650

Hail, Nowata

When: March 6, 9:45 PM CST
Where: Nowata County, Lenapah
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Coordinates: 36.799, -95.617 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Hail, Ottawa

When: March 6, 10:00 PM CST
Where: Ottawa County, Narcissa
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Coordinates: 36.836, -94.810 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Hail, Craig

When: March 6, 10:15 PM CST
Where: Craig County, Welch
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Coordinates: 36.762, -95.208 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Hail, Ottawa

When: March 6, 10:40 PM CST
Where: Ottawa County, Miami
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Coordinates: 36.836, -94.810 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Severe thunderstorms developed in extreme northeast Oklahoma during the evening of March 6th and produced large hail and one small tornado. The tornado touched down briefly one mile west southwest of Lenapah at 2140 CST. Trees and fences were downed by this F-0 tornado, but no other damage occurred as a result of the tornado. Golf ball-size hail fell at Lenapah, and dime-size hail fell at Wann, Welch, Narcissa, and five miles east of Miami.

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

Every storm in Oklahoma in 1994 Every state in 1994 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1994 Warnings in Oklahoma, March 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: 10341732, 10341733, 10341734, 10341127, 10343032, 10341128.