Tornado, Cotton
- When
- August 11, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cotton County, Walters
- Measured
- 999
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 34.350, -98.300
Tornado in Oklahoma, August 11, 1996
Power lines were blown down, roofs were blown off of 3 houses including one trailer house, a barn was blown over, and a tree was uprooted. Another house was picked up and moved 6 inches off its foundation.
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
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.
Power lines were blown down, roofs were blown off of 3 houses including one trailer house, a barn was blown over, and a tree was uprooted. Another house was picked up and moved 6 inches off its foundation. All of the windows in the house were broken.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, August 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in Georgia, August 11 to 12, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 11, 1996
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, August 11, 1996
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1996Warnings in Oklahoma, August 1996
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: 5569392.