Oklahoma

Storm History: Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

582 episodes, 1,043 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pontotoc 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
1,043
Deaths
11
Injuries
98
Damage
$48 million
Episodes
582

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 Pontotoc 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
Tornado381882$31 million
Hail27915$794,000
Flash Flood9805$3.2 million
Drought7300$8.3 million
Excessive Heat4600
Heat3810
Thunderstorm Wind3401$75,000
Heavy Snow1600
Winter Storm1500$60,000
Flood1203$131,000
Ice Storm900$3.9 million
Dense Fog900
High Wind700$11,000
Winter Weather602
Cold/Wind Chill500
Lightning510$95,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Blizzard200
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100
Wildfire100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Pontotoc County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pontotoc CountyEvery warning in Pontotoc 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.