Oklahoma

Storm History: Lincoln County, Oklahoma

622 episodes, 1,081 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lincoln 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
1,081
Deaths
7
Injuries
151
Damage
$145 million
Episodes
622

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.

Open the live radar over Lincoln County

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
Tornado3901140$109 million
Hail32201$6.0 million
Drought7200$8.3 million
Flash Flood6322$1.0 million
Excessive Heat4400
Thunderstorm Wind3600$22,000
Heat3220
Flood2000$674,000
Winter Storm1810$15,000
Heavy Snow1700$20,000
Ice Storm1200$4.3 million
High Wind1100$1,000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Winter Weather800
Dense Fog800
Wildfire718$15 million
Blizzard400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Dust Storm300$500
Strong Wind100
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 Lincoln County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lincoln CountyEvery warning in Lincoln 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.