Oklahoma

Storm History: Grant County, Oklahoma

582 episodes, 960 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grant 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
960
Deaths
1
Injuries
8
Damage
$44 million
Episodes
582

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
Tornado32908$9.7 million
Hail24300$188,000
Drought9700$8.3 million
Flash Flood8800$60,000
Excessive Heat3400
Heat3110
Thunderstorm Wind2900$21,000
Heavy Snow2400$10,000
Ice Storm1500$26 million
Winter Storm1500$5,000
Winter Weather1400$10,000
High Wind1000$32,000
Flood1000$250
Cold/Wind Chill700
Blizzard400$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Dense Fog200
Wildfire200
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 Grant County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Grant CountyEvery warning in Grant 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.