Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

1995 tornadoes in Oklahoma

77 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 1995, 31 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1994 1996 The whole country in 1995

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Oklahoma in 1995

March 25 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 25	3:25 PM CST	F1	Beaver	3.0	100			$50,000 to $500,000
March 25	6:15 PM CST	F0	Beaver	0.5	50

April 16 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 16	3:40 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.1	23
April 16	5:00 PM CDT	F1	Comanche	0.2	33	$5,000 to $50,000
April 16	5:50 PM CDT	F0	Osage	0.2	50	$500 to $5,000

April 17 16 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 17	5:15 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.1	30
April 17	5:28 PM CDT	F0	Cotton	0.1	20
April 17	5:35 PM CDT	F0	Cotton	0.1	20
April 17	5:56 PM CDT	F1	Cotton	2.0	100	$5,000 to $50,000
April 17	6:10 PM CDT	F1	Stephens	0.2	30	$50 to $500
April 17	6:22 PM CDT	F1	Stephens	5.0	400	$50,000 to $500,000
April 17	7:00 PM CDT	F1	Stephens	0.1	30	$500 to $5,000
April 17	7:45 PM CDT	F0	Murray	2.0	20
April 17	10:00 PM CDT	F0	Okmulgee	0.1	30
April 17	10:19 PM CDT	F0	Okmulgee	0.1	30
April 17	10:30 PM CDT	F0	Muskogee	0.1	30
April 17	11:14 PM CDT	F2	Wagoner	4.5	123	$50,000 to $500,000
April 17	11:32 PM CDT	F1	Cherokee	0.2	50	$5,000 to $50,000
April 17	11:35 PM CDT	F2	Cherokee	7.0	200	$50,000 to $500,000
April 17	12:02 AM CDT	F1	Adair	1.0	73	$50,000 to $500,000
April 17	12:10 AM CDT	F0	Delaware	0.1	40	$500 to $5,000

April 19 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 19	7:40 PM CDT	F0	Jefferson	0.1	20
April 19	8:27 PM CDT	F0	Carter	0.1	20
April 19	8:32 PM CDT	F0	Carter	0.1	20

May 7 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 7	3:56 PM CDT	F0	Greer	0.2	73
May 7	4:00 PM CDT	F1	Murray	2.0	100
May 7	4:10 PM CDT	F1	Garvin	6.0	200	$5,000 to $50,000
May 7	4:20 PM CDT	F1	Johnston	0.2	50	$500 to $5,000
May 7	4:45 PM CDT	F0	Seminole	0.2	73
May 7	4:55 PM CDT	F0	Hughes	1.0	30	$500 to $5,000
May 7	5:08 PM CDT	F2	Hughes	6.0	50	$5,000 to $50,000
May 7	5:29 PM CDT	F1	Murray	3.0	200	$50,000 to $500,000
May 7	5:38 PM CDT	F0	Okfuskee	0.1	30	$5,000 to $50,000
May 7	5:53 PM CDT	F1	Murray	0.1	20	$5,000 to $50,000

May 17 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 17	3:16 PM CDT	F0	Beaver	2.0	100
May 17	4:52 PM CDT	F2	Alfalfa	12.0	400			$5,000 to $50,000

May 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	9:11 PM CDT	F0	Beckham	0.1	30

May 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 24	5:40 PM CDT	F0	Pittsburg	0.1	30			$500 to $5,000

May 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	12:15 PM CDT	F0	Delaware	0.1	30			$5,000 to $50,000

May 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 30	7:16 PM CDT	F0	Texas	0.5	50

June 3 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 3	9:15 PM CDT	F1	Jackson	0.1	30	$50,000 to $500,000
June 3	9:25 PM CDT	F1	Canadian	5.0	200	$50,000 to $500,000
June 3	10:41 PM CDT	F0	Jackson	0.1	30
June 3	11:57 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.1	30
June 3	12:16 AM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.1	30

June 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 5	7:15 PM CDT	F0	Garfield	0.1	23
June 5	8:12 PM CDT	F0	Garfield	0.1	23

June 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	10:50 PM CDT	F1	Woodward	0.2	50			$5,000 to $50,000
June 7	11:35 PM CDT	F0	Woods	0.1	23

June 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 8	5:15 PM CDT	F1	Harper	0.2	30	1	$50,000 to $500,000
June 8	8:17 PM CDT	F0	Ellis	0.1	30
June 8	9:18 PM CDT	F2	Roger Mills	5.0	300		$50,000 to $500,000

June 9 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 9	7:00 AM CDT	F1	Lincoln	0.7	20		$50,000 to $500,000
June 9	7:15 AM CDT	F2	Lincoln	0.2	23		$50,000 to $500,000
June 9	7:25 AM CDT	F0	Creek	0.1	30	1	$5,000 to $50,000
June 9	7:30 AM CDT	F0	Creek	0.1	30
June 9	2:15 PM CDT	F0	Greer	0.1	20
June 9	2:36 PM CDT	F0	Greer	0.1	23
June 9	2:38 PM CDT	F0	Greer	0.1	30
June 9	2:39 PM CDT	F0	Greer	0.1	50
June 9	2:53 PM CDT	F0	Greer	0.1	23
June 9	3:00 PM CDT	F0	Kiowa	0.7	100
June 9	4:20 PM CDT	F0	Kiowa	0.1	23
June 9	5:58 PM CDT	F2	Seminole	5.2	300		$500,000 to $5 million
June 9	7:30 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.1	30
June 9	11:40 PM CDT	F0	Nowata	0.1	30
June 9	12:03 AM CDT	F0	Rogers	0.1	30

July 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 4	5:02 PM CDT	F0	Tulsa	0.1	30			$500 to $5,000
July 4	7:05 PM CDT	F1	Johnston	0.1	30			$500 to $5,000

July 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 9	6:40 PM CDT	F0	Kiowa	2.5	63

July 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
July 23	9:10 PM CDT	F0	Cotton	0.4	30
July 23	9:16 PM CDT	F0	Cotton	0.3	30
July 23	9:17 PM CDT	F0	Cotton	0.2	23

October 26 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 26	6:40 PM CDT	F0	Mayes	0.1	30
October 26	7:16 PM CDT	F0	Cherokee	2.0	73	$50,000 to $500,000
October 26	7:43 PM CDT	F0	Cherokee	0.1	30
October 26	7:46 PM CDT	F0	Adair	3.0	73	$5,000 to $50,000

Crossed into Oklahoma

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Oklahoma. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 7	4:20 PM CDT	F3	Love, TX to OK	34.1	880	3	6	$50 million to $500 million
June 3	8:00 PM CDT	F0	Harmon, TX to OK	0.2	23

Nearby

Every tornado in Oklahoma since 1950 Warnings in force in Oklahoma The live radar over Oklahoma

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.