Oklahoma

Storm History: Custer County, Oklahoma

680 episodes, 1,137 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Custer 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
1,137
Deaths
6
Injuries
31
Damage
$76 million
Episodes
680

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
Tornado359421$39 million
Hail31400$276,000
Drought11700$8.3 million
Flash Flood9304$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind6301$417,000
High Wind3203$25,000
Excessive Heat2900
Heat2300
Heavy Snow1800
Wildfire1700$222,000
Ice Storm1610$26 million
Winter Storm1400$10,000
Flood1200
Blizzard701$10,000
Cold/Wind Chill500
Winter Weather511
Dense Fog400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning200$700
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 Custer County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Custer CountyEvery warning in Custer 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.