Oklahoma

Storm History: Cimarron County, Oklahoma

578 episodes, 955 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cimarron 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
955
Deaths
1
Injuries
8
Damage
$202 million
Episodes
578

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
Hail28700$270,000
High Wind19000
Tornado14003$3.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind8200$185,000
Drought7500$194 million
Heavy Snow3400
Winter Weather2800
Cold/Wind Chill2200
Blizzard1901$4.5 million
Winter Storm1700$15,000
Flash Flood1600$28,000
Wildfire1201
Flood900$3,000
Frost/Freeze600
Ice Storm400
Dust Storm400
Funnel Cloud200
Lightning213
Heavy Rain200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Freezing Fog100
Dense Fog100

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 Cimarron County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cimarron CountyEvery warning in Cimarron 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.