Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 2006

2,536 events in 252 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 2006, 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 2006 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
2,536
Deaths
26
Injuries
151
Damage
$230 million
Episodes
252

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
Drought78304$167 million
Hail725015$4.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind48208$575,000
Heat19924100$13,000
High Wind10700$16 million
Winter Storm7100$1.0 million
Wildfire4128$17 million
Tornado28015$8.6 million
Winter Weather2100
Heavy Snow2000
Flash Flood2000$689,000
Lightning1100$2.0 million
Flood900
Blizzard901$11 million
Ice Storm600$900,000
Funnel Cloud300
Dust Devil100$15,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2006

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September 2006

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November 2006

December 2006

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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.