Oklahoma

Storm History: Love County, Oklahoma

436 episodes, 698 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Love 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
698
Deaths
4
Injuries
35
Damage
$167 million
Episodes
436

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 Love 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
Tornado185317$157 million
Hail18401$270,000
Drought8500$8.3 million
Excessive Heat6700
Flash Flood5000$31,000
Heat3100
Thunderstorm Wind25014$179,000
Flood1200$5,000
Heavy Snow900
Dense Fog800
Winter Storm800$20,000
High Wind600$15,000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Ice Storm500$900,000
Wildfire400$274,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Winter Weather313$15,000
Dust Storm200
Blizzard200
Lightning100$1,000
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 Love County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Love CountyEvery warning in Love 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.