Oklahoma

Storm History: Coal County, Oklahoma

355 episodes, 509 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Coal 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
509
Deaths
2
Injuries
8
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
355

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
Hail12400$296,000
Tornado11818$6.8 million
Drought7300$8.3 million
Excessive Heat6400
Heat3200
Flash Flood2010$24,000
Winter Storm1400$248,000
Heavy Snow1300
Dense Fog800
Thunderstorm Wind700$6,000
Ice Storm700$600,000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Flood500$1,000
Winter Weather500
Wildfire400
High Wind300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Dust Storm100
Blizzard100
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 Coal County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Coal CountyEvery warning in Coal 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.