Oklahoma

Storm History: Nowata County, Oklahoma

486 episodes, 649 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nowata 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
649
Deaths
3
Injuries
10
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
486

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
Tornado202010$3.1 million
Hail15530$763,000
Drought6700
Flash Flood5200$3.9 million
Excessive Heat5200
Thunderstorm Wind4900$56,000
Winter Storm2200
Flood1400$250,000
Ice Storm1300$20 million
Heavy Snow1000
High Wind400
Heat400
Wildfire200$250,000
Lightning100$5,000
Winter Weather100
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 Nowata County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Nowata CountyEvery warning in Nowata 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.