Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 2001

2,230 events in 191 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 2001, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Oklahoma in 2001 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
2,230
Deaths
12
Injuries
39
Damage
$153 million
Episodes
191

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
Thunderstorm Wind82801$203,000
Hail78516$15 million
High Wind12700$247,000
Dense Fog8600
Tornado70221$134 million
Flash Flood6406$804,000
Heat5390
Drought4800
Flood3000$97,000
Winter Storm2900
Dust Storm2900$48,000
Lightning2305$570,000
Ice Storm2100$1.0 million
Winter Weather2100
Heavy Snow1200
Funnel Cloud400

Every episode, month by month

January 2001

February 2001

March 2001

April 2001

May 2001

June 2001

July 2001

August 2001

September 2001

October 2001

November 2001

December 2001

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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.