Oklahoma

Storm History: Osage County, Oklahoma

683 episodes, 1,500 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Osage 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
1,500
Deaths
4
Injuries
104
Damage
$49 million
Episodes
683

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
Tornado6254100$46 million
Hail55402$1.6 million
Flash Flood18001$507,000
Thunderstorm Wind12601$123,000
Flood1500$2,000

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 Osage County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Osage CountyEvery warning in Osage 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.