Funnel Cloud, Cimarron
- When
- April 21, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Cimarron County, 10 mi SE of Boise City
- Coordinates
- 36.748, -102.518 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Oklahoma, April 21, 1997
Thunderstorms across the western Oklahoma Panhandle produced a report of a funnel cloud.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- 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 AMA wrote it up.
Thunderstorms across the western Oklahoma Panhandle produced a report of a funnel cloud.
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:10 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in North Dakota, April 21 to 24, 1997
- High Surf in Puerto Rico, April 21, 1997
- Flood in North Dakota, April 21 to 30, 1997
- Flood in Minnesota, April 21 to 30, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Tennessee, April 21 to 30, 1997
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Alabama, April 21, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 21 to 22, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 21, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 21, 1997
- High Surf in Hawaii, April 21 to 22, 1997
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, April 1997
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: 5605428.