Oklahoma

Storm History: Canadian County, Oklahoma

822 episodes, 1,578 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Canadian 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
1,578
Deaths
27
Injuries
192
Damage
$54 million
Episodes
822

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.

Open the live radar over Canadian County

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
Tornado60719184$31 million
Hail47502$318,000
Flash Flood12116$611,000
Drought9500$8.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind6700$814,000
Heat3810
Excessive Heat3100
Flood2600$75,000
Heavy Snow2200
Winter Storm1810$40,000
Ice Storm1710$12 million
High Wind1400$6,000
Winter Weather920
Cold/Wind Chill800
Wildfire800
Dense Fog600
Blizzard520
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Lightning300$33,000
Strong Wind100
Heavy Rain100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Canadian County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Canadian CountyEvery warning in Canadian 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.