Oklahoma

Storm History: Hughes County, Oklahoma

441 episodes, 638 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hughes 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
638
Deaths
9
Injuries
52
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
441

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
Hail20500$298,000
Tornado159852$9.4 million
Drought6200$8.3 million
Excessive Heat4000
Flash Flood3700$164,000
Heat3500
Thunderstorm Wind2100$113,000
Heavy Snow1400
Winter Storm1300$472,000
Wildfire1010$1.1 million
Ice Storm900$11 million
Dense Fog800
Cold/Wind Chill600
Flood600$300,000
High Wind400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Winter Weather200
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100
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 Hughes County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hughes CountyEvery warning in Hughes 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.