Oklahoma

Storm History: Adair County, Oklahoma

453 episodes, 622 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Adair County, Oklahoma: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
622
Deaths
5
Injuries
4
Damage
$8.8 million
Episodes
453

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado20924$2.8 million
Hail16000$590,000
Flash Flood6620$975,000
Drought4400
Flood4110
Winter Storm2300
Thunderstorm Wind2000$15,000
Wildfire1900$100,000
Excessive Heat1500
Ice Storm900$4.3 million
Heavy Snow600
High Wind400$500
Heat400
Winter Weather100
Blizzard100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Adair County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Adair CountyEvery warning in Adair County since 1986Every county in Oklahoma

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.