Oklahoma

Storm History: Cleveland County, Oklahoma

779 episodes, 1,863 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cleveland 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
1,863
Deaths
53
Injuries
686
Damage
$2.8 billion
Episodes
779

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 Cleveland 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
Tornado72845684$2.8 billion
Hail49301$44 million
Flash Flood27800$984,000
Drought7600$8.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind6300$134,000
Heat4560
Flood3900$99,000
Excessive Heat2600
Heavy Snow2100
Winter Storm1610$40,000
Ice Storm1400$2.2 million
High Wind1301$21,000
Wildfire1310$3.3 million
Dense Fog1000
Winter Weather900
Cold/Wind Chill700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Blizzard300
Lightning100$10,000
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100
Funnel Cloud100
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 Cleveland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cleveland CountyEvery warning in Cleveland 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.