Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 2003

1,975 events in 198 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 2003, 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 2003 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
1,975
Deaths
5
Injuries
163
Damage
$423 million
Episodes
198

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
Hail1,05212$23 million
Thunderstorm Wind55000$408,000
Tornado881152$399 million
Heavy Snow5500
Winter Storm4501
Flash Flood4400$265,000
Dense Fog3700
High Wind3200$15,000
Winter Weather3006$180,000
Lightning1702$81,000
Flood1100$10,000
Heavy Rain500
Funnel Cloud400
Heat330
Strong Wind100$5,000
Wildfire100

Every episode, month by month

January 2003

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September 2003

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November 2003

December 2003

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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.