Oklahoma

Storm History: Major County, Oklahoma

602 episodes, 890 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Major 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
890
Deaths
4
Injuries
23
Damage
$39 million
Episodes
602

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 Major 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
Tornado275417$4.4 million
Hail23301$103,000
Drought11200$8.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind5000$27,000
Flash Flood3900$540,000
Excessive Heat3600
Heavy Snow2300$5,000
Heat2300
Flood1900$127,000
Ice Storm1700$26 million
High Wind1500$3,000
Winter Storm1501$5,000
Winter Weather804
Cold/Wind Chill600
Wildfire600
Blizzard400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Dense Fog200
Strong Wind100
Lightning100$40,000
Heavy Rain100

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 Major County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Major CountyEvery warning in Major 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.