Oklahoma

Storm History: Pawnee County, Oklahoma

556 episodes, 807 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pawnee 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
807
Deaths
7
Injuries
69
Damage
$94 million
Episodes
556

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
Tornado246464$61 million
Hail21213$397,000
Drought8900
Flash Flood8300$694,000
Excessive Heat5100
Thunderstorm Wind4501$2.0 million
Winter Storm2200
Ice Storm1400$20 million
Flood1400$100
Heavy Snow1000
Wildfire811$10 million
High Wind600$25,000
Heat510
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 Pawnee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pawnee CountyEvery warning in Pawnee 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.