Storm History: Ottawa County, Oklahoma
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ottawa 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
- 795
- Deaths
- 12
- Injuries
- 239
- Damage
- $100 million
- Episodes
- 548
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 219 | 7 | 233 | $26 million |
| Hail | 172 | 1 | 1 | $436,000 |
| Flash Flood | 117 | 0 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| Flood | 105 | 0 | 0 | $21 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 54 | 1 | 0 | $344,000 |
| Drought | 41 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 33 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 22 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Ice Storm | 11 | 0 | 0 | $50 million |
| Heavy Snow | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 4 | 0 | 0 | $12,000 |
| Heat | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 3 | 5 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Ice Storm, December 8, 2007
- Flood, July 1, 2007
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 27, 2014
- Tornado, April 7, 1980
- Tornado, May 4, 2003
- Tornado, May 20, 2013
- Winter Storm, November 29, 2006
- Flood, April 25, 1999
- Tornado, September 24, 1973
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2020
- Tornado, April 3, 1956
- Tornado, May 5, 1960
- Tornado, May 8, 2024
- Flash Flood, April 26, 1999
- Tornado, March 31, 2008
- Tornado, April 2, 2015
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Tornado, May 25, 2024
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2000
- Hail, May 15, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2011
- Hail, August 1, 1986
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2020
- Hail, August 15, 2020
- Hail, June 5, 2014
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Hail, November 18, 2003
- Hail, April 11, 1992
- Hail, September 9, 1992
- Hail, May 14, 1990
- Hail, May 20, 1990
- Hail, May 21, 1987
- Hail, April 25, 2026
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 5, 1960
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 3, 1956
- Tornado, May 24, 1957
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Tornado, August 7, 1960
- Tornado, May 7, 1961
- Tornado, May 21, 1961
- Tornado, May 5, 1971
- Tornado, September 24, 1973
- Tornado, April 7, 1980
- Tornado, July 2, 1992
- Tornado, May 7, 1995
- Tornado, May 26, 1997
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 13, 2026
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2026
- Flash Flood, June 8, 2026
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 15, 2026
- Hail, April 25, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Drought, January 6, 2026
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2025
- Tornado, June 17, 2025
- Hail, June 8, 2025
- Tornado, April 29, 2025
- Hail, March 22, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 18, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Tornado, October 30, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2024
- Drought, September 1, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 13, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 29, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2024
- Excessive Heat, June 24, 2024
- Hail, May 26, 2024
- Tornado, May 25, 2024
- Hail, May 15, 2024
- Tornado, May 8, 2024
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Flood, May 1, 2024
- Flood, April 28, 2024
- Tornado, April 26, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 19, 2023
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 11, 2023
- Hail, August 5, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2023
- Hail, July 17, 2023
- Flood, July 14, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 12, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 28, 2023
- Tornado, June 17, 2023
- Flash Flood, March 2, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 26, 2023
- Drought, February 1, 2023
- Tornado, January 2, 2023
- Drought, January 1, 2023
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- High Wind, October 25, 2022
- Drought, October 1, 2022
- Drought, September 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2022
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 24, 2022
- Drought, July 19, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 19, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 6, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2022
- Excessive Heat, June 12, 2022
- Flood, June 6, 2022
- Flood, June 1, 2022
- Tornado, May 4, 2022
- Tornado, April 10, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Tornado, October 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2021
- Flood, July 16, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2021
- Flood, May 21, 2021
- Flood, March 13, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Tornado, January 30, 2021
- Tornado, November 24, 2020
- Hail, November 14, 2020
- Hail, August 15, 2020
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2020
- Tornado, May 25, 2020
- Tornado, May 15, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2020
- Tornado, April 28, 2020
- Tornado, March 19, 2020
- Flood, February 24, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2020
- Flash Flood, September 25, 2019
- Flood, September 23, 2019
- Hail, August 26, 2019
- Flood, August 8, 2019
- Excessive Heat, July 17, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2019
- Flood, June 19, 2019
- Flood, June 1, 2019
- Tornado, May 22, 2019
- Flood, May 20, 2019
- Tornado, May 20, 2019
- Flood, May 7, 2019
- Flood, May 1, 2019
- Tornado, April 30, 2019
- Hail, March 9, 2019
- Flood, October 9, 2018
- Drought, August 1, 2018
- Hail, July 20, 2018
- Excessive Heat, July 19, 2018
- Drought, July 1, 2018
- Hail, May 23, 2018
- Excessive Heat, July 21, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2017
- Hail, June 15, 2017
- Tornado, May 27, 2017
- Flood, May 11, 2017
- Flood, May 1, 2017
- Flood, April 29, 2017
- Flood, April 21, 2017
- Hail, March 21, 2017
- Hail, March 9, 2017
- Tornado, March 6, 2017
- Flood, October 6, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2016
- Flood, May 1, 2016
- Flood, April 28, 2016
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Tornado, March 30, 2016
- Flood, December 27, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 26, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, November 27, 2015
- Excessive Heat, July 24, 2015
- Excessive Heat, July 14, 2015
- Flood, June 13, 2015
- Flood, June 1, 2015
- Tornado, May 28, 2015
- Flood, May 24, 2015
- Tornado, May 23, 2015
- Flood, May 17, 2015
- Tornado, May 16, 2015
- Tornado, April 2, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2015
- Flash Flood, October 10, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 15, 2014
- Hail, June 5, 2014
- Drought, June 1, 2014
- Drought, May 1, 2014
- Tornado, April 27, 2014
- Hail, April 3, 2014
- Ice Storm, March 2, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2014
- Ice Storm, December 20, 2013
- Ice Storm, December 5, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2013
- Flood, August 4, 2013
- Tornado, July 23, 2013
- Excessive Heat, June 26, 2013
- Flood, June 1, 2013
- Flood, May 30, 2013
- Tornado, May 20, 2013
- Tornado, March 30, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, September 26, 2012
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Hail, August 12, 2012
- Hail, August 4, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 28, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Flood, May 1, 2012
- Tornado, May 1, 2012
- Flood, April 30, 2012
- Flood, March 20, 2012
- Tornado, March 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 28, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2011
- Drought, October 1, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 9, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2011
- Hail, June 20, 2011
- Hail, June 14, 2011
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- Tornado, May 23, 2011
- Flood, May 23, 2011
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2011
- Tornado, May 11, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Flood, April 25, 2011
- Flood, April 25, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 25, 2011
- Tornado, April 22, 2011
- Tornado, April 14, 2011
- Hail, March 19, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2011
- Flash Flood, November 24, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 8, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2010
- Excessive Heat, July 12, 2010
- Flood, July 7, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2010
- Excessive Heat, June 19, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2010
- Hail, May 16, 2010
- Flood, May 14, 2010
- Tornado, May 13, 2010
- Hail, May 1, 2010
- Hail, April 6, 2010
- Flash Flood, March 25, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 20, 2010
- Hail, March 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2009
- Flood, October 8, 2009
- Flash Flood, October 8, 2009
- Flood, October 8, 2009
- Hail, October 1, 2009
- Flood, September 22, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 21, 2009
- Flood, September 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2009
- Hail, August 17, 2009
- Hail, July 13, 2009
- Excessive Heat, July 11, 2009
- Hail, June 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2009
- Flood, May 9, 2009
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Ottawa CountyEvery warning in Ottawa 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.