Oklahoma

Storm History: Ellis County, Oklahoma

640 episodes, 1,021 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ellis 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
1,021
Deaths
0
Injuries
8
Damage
$43 million
Episodes
640

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
Hail32401$834,000
Tornado31206$4.9 million
Drought11500$8.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind7600$395,000
Flash Flood4200
High Wind3200$33,000
Heavy Snow2200$20,000
Heat1900$3,000
Winter Storm1500$5,000
Ice Storm1400$26 million
Excessive Heat1200
Wildfire1100$2.6 million
Blizzard601$15,000
Cold/Wind Chill500
Flood500$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Dense Fog200
Lightning100$2,000
Strong Wind100
Winter Weather100
Heavy Rain100
Frost/Freeze100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Ellis County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ellis CountyEvery warning in Ellis 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.