Oklahoma

Storm History: Creek County, Oklahoma

739 episodes, 1,251 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Creek 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
1,251
Deaths
27
Injuries
294
Damage
$191 million
Episodes
739

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
Tornado49327293$58 million
Hail36701$1.1 million
Flash Flood11000$6.2 million
Drought7000
Excessive Heat5200
Thunderstorm Wind5100$172,000
Flood3400$73,000
Wildfire2100$56 million
Winter Storm1900
Ice Storm1200$70 million
Heavy Snow800$6,000
Heat600
High Wind500$8,000
Winter Weather200
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 Creek County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Creek CountyEvery warning in Creek 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.