Storm History: Kay County, Oklahoma
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kay 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
- 1,627
- Deaths
- 26
- Injuries
- 326
- Damage
- $80 million
- Episodes
- 832
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 562 | 20 | 304 | $44 million |
| Hail | 460 | 0 | 3 | $419,000 |
| Flash Flood | 138 | 0 | 5 | $1.1 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 114 | 0 | 1 | $184,000 |
| Drought | 108 | 0 | 0 | $8.3 million |
| Excessive Heat | 45 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 37 | 1 | 1 | $397,000 |
| Heat | 35 | 3 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 25 | 0 | 2 | $23,000 |
| Winter Weather | 18 | 0 | 2 | $10,000 |
| Winter Storm | 17 | 0 | 4 | $15,000 |
| Ice Storm | 15 | 2 | 0 | $25 million |
| High Wind | 14 | 0 | 0 | $88,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 7 | 0 | 4 | $100,000 |
| Dense Fog | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 2 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Strong Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 25, 1955
- Ice Storm, January 30, 2002
- Drought, August 1, 2000
- Tornado, May 8, 1993
- Tornado, November 19, 1973
- Tornado, March 13, 1973
- Tornado, March 26, 1991
- Flash Flood, August 17, 2009
- Tornado, April 17, 1978
- Flood, July 3, 2005
- Tornado, April 2, 1956
- Tornado, April 22, 1964
- Tornado, March 16, 1965
- Tornado, June 5, 1966
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Tornado, April 23, 2026
- Ice Storm, December 27, 2015
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Tornado, April 17, 2026
- Tornado, May 7, 2019
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 19, 2003
- Hail, April 21, 1996
- Hail, April 27, 1996
- Hail, April 27, 1996
- Tornado, May 11, 2017
- Hail, April 8, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2008
- Hail, May 15, 2024
- Hail, October 22, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 16, 1997
- Hail, June 3, 2008
- Hail, June 12, 2009
- Hail, May 26, 1985
- Hail, April 14, 1998
- Hail, August 1, 1986
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 25, 1955
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- Tornado, April 2, 1956
- Tornado, September 14, 1957
- Tornado, March 16, 1965
- Tornado, June 10, 1967
- Tornado, June 8, 1974
- Tornado, May 17, 1981
- Tornado, April 26, 1984
- Tornado, April 29, 1984
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Tornado, May 11, 1992
- Tornado, May 8, 2003
- Tornado, May 10, 2010
- Tornado, November 7, 2011
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2026
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2026
- Tornado, June 21, 2026
- Excessive Heat, June 17, 2026
- Excessive Heat, June 13, 2026
- Hail, June 13, 2026
- Excessive Heat, June 8, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2026
- Hail, May 18, 2026
- Flood, May 8, 2026
- Tornado, April 23, 2026
- Tornado, April 17, 2026
- Flash Flood, April 15, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Drought, March 31, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Excessive Heat, August 15, 2025
- Hail, August 10, 2025
- Heat, August 7, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 29, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 24, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2025
- Tornado, June 17, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 8, 2025
- Tornado, June 6, 2025
- Tornado, June 6, 2025
- Tornado, May 23, 2025
- Tornado, May 19, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 29, 2025
- Drought, April 1, 2025
- Hail, April 1, 2025
- High Wind, March 18, 2025
- Drought, March 18, 2025
- Wildfire, March 14, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2025
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2025
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Heat, September 20, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 19, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 23, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 17, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 11, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 6, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 30, 2024
- Heat, July 29, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 15, 2024
- Heat, July 14, 2024
- Heat, July 1, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2024
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2024
- Hail, June 29, 2024
- Hail, June 25, 2024
- Heat, June 23, 2024
- Excessive Heat, June 23, 2024
- Tornado, May 25, 2024
- Hail, May 15, 2024
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Hail, May 2, 2024
- Tornado, April 30, 2024
- Tornado, April 27, 2024
- Hail, March 7, 2024
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2024
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 19, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 13, 2024
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 12, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Drought, October 31, 2023
- Frost/Freeze, October 29, 2023
- Flash Flood, October 24, 2023
- Drought, October 17, 2023
- Flash Flood, October 4, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 12, 2023
- Drought, September 5, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2023
- Drought, August 29, 2023
- Drought, August 22, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 22, 2023
- Heat, August 22, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 17, 2023
- Heat, August 13, 2023
- Heat, August 8, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 8, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Heat, August 1, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 31, 2023
- Heat, July 25, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2023
- Heat, July 17, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 17, 2023
- Hail, July 14, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 12, 2023
- Heat, July 11, 2023
- Drought, July 11, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Drought, June 27, 2023
- Hail, June 27, 2023
- Heat, June 24, 2023
- Drought, June 20, 2023
- Tornado, June 17, 2023
- Drought, June 1, 2023
- Drought, May 16, 2023
- Tornado, May 12, 2023
- Drought, May 1, 2023
- Hail, April 10, 2023
- Drought, April 1, 2023
- Wildfire, March 31, 2023
- Drought, March 1, 2023
- Tornado, February 26, 2023
- Drought, February 14, 2023
- Drought, February 1, 2023
- Drought, January 1, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 16, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 1, 2022
- Drought, September 1, 2022
- Hail, August 9, 2022
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Drought, July 16, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2022
- Hail, May 18, 2022
- Tornado, May 5, 2022
- Drought, May 1, 2022
- Drought, April 1, 2022
- Hail, March 29, 2022
- Drought, March 1, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2022
- Drought, February 1, 2022
- High Wind, January 14, 2022
- Drought, January 1, 2022
- Drought, December 16, 2021
- Wildfire, December 15, 2021
- Drought, September 15, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2021
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2020
- Ice Storm, October 26, 2020
- Hail, August 13, 2020
- Hail, August 10, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2020
- Drought, July 1, 2020
- Tornado, April 22, 2020
- Tornado, October 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, September 12, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 30, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2019
- Tornado, June 18, 2019
- Tornado, May 24, 2019
- Tornado, May 20, 2019
- Tornado, May 7, 2019
- Tornado, April 17, 2019
- Hail, March 29, 2019
- High Wind, November 25, 2018
- Drought, September 1, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2018
- Drought, August 1, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2018
- Drought, July 1, 2018
- Hail, June 30, 2018
- Hail, June 22, 2018
- Drought, June 1, 2018
- Hail, May 30, 2018
- Tornado, May 29, 2018
- Tornado, May 19, 2018
- Hail, May 14, 2018
- Drought, May 1, 2018
- Wildfire, April 11, 2018
- Drought, April 1, 2018
- Drought, March 1, 2018
- Ice Storm, February 20, 2018
- Drought, February 1, 2018
- Drought, January 1, 2018
- Hail, August 16, 2017
- Hail, August 5, 2017
- Hail, June 26, 2017
- Hail, June 15, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2017
- Tornado, May 11, 2017
- Hail, May 2, 2017
- Hail, April 4, 2017
- Drought, April 1, 2017
- Drought, March 1, 2017
- Drought, February 1, 2017
- Drought, January 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, October 6, 2016
- Hail, September 9, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 28, 2016
- Hail, July 14, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 23, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 29, 2016
- Hail, May 27, 2016
- Hail, May 13, 2016
- Tornado, May 9, 2016
- Tornado, April 29, 2016
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Hail, April 10, 2016
- Hail, March 30, 2016
- Ice Storm, December 27, 2015
- Ice Storm, November 27, 2015
- Tornado, November 16, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2015
- Hail, August 18, 2015
- Tornado, May 23, 2015
- Drought, May 1, 2015
- Drought, April 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2015
- Drought, March 1, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 15, 2015
- Drought, February 1, 2015
- Drought, January 1, 2015
- Drought, December 1, 2014
- Drought, November 1, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 1, 2014
- Drought, October 1, 2014
- Hail, September 1, 2014
- Drought, September 1, 2014
- Drought, August 1, 2014
- Hail, July 14, 2014
- Drought, July 1, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2014
- Hail, June 5, 2014
- Drought, June 1, 2014
- Drought, May 1, 2014
- Drought, April 1, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 2, 2014
- Drought, March 1, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 4, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2013
- Drought, August 1, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2013
- Drought, July 1, 2013
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Kay CountyEvery warning in Kay 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.