Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 2020

1,630 events in 186 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Oklahoma in 2020, 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 2020 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

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The year

Events
1,630
Deaths
8
Injuries
8
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
186

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
Hail62200$3.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind50300$74,000
Drought9700
Flash Flood8610$1.6 million
High Wind5300$20,000
Excessive Heat5200
Tornado4133$12 million
Ice Storm4110$4,000
Winter Storm4000
Heavy Snow3200
Flood3000$9,000
Wildfire1905$1.5 million
Heat930
Winter Weather300
Funnel Cloud100
Lightning100

Every episode, month by month

January 2020

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November 2020

December 2020

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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.