Oklahoma

Storm History: Latimer County, Oklahoma

420 episodes, 592 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Latimer 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
592
Deaths
14
Injuries
109
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
420

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
Tornado17814109$10 million
Hail16500$313,000
Flash Flood7200$240,000
Drought4600
Excessive Heat3300
Wildfire3100$130,000
Thunderstorm Wind2500$68,000
Winter Storm1900$450,000
Ice Storm700
Heat500
Heavy Snow400
High Wind300$5,000
Winter Weather200
Lightning100$50,000
Blizzard100

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 Latimer County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Latimer CountyEvery warning in Latimer 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.