Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2000 tornadoes in Oklahoma

43 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2000, 27 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1999 2001 The whole country in 2000

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 2000

February 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 25	7:37 AM CST	F1	Tulsa	0.2	100			$100,000

March 7 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 7	5:15 PM CST	F1	Washita	2.0	20	$4,000
March 7	10:10 PM CST	F0	Tulsa	0.1	50	$1,000
March 7	10:10 PM CST	F0	Osage	0.1	50
March 7	10:25 PM CST	F0	Washington	1.0	50	$1,000
March 7	10:37 PM CST	F0	Rogers	0.2	50	$10,000

March 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 15	4:52 PM CST	F0	Alfalfa	2.5	50
March 15	5:43 PM CST	F0	Grant	0.5	20

March 26 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 26	4:40 PM CST	F0	Tulsa	0.2	50
March 26	4:44 PM CST	F0	McIntosh	0.2	50
March 26	5:00 PM CST	F0	Muskogee	0.2	50
March 26	5:23 PM CST	F0	Seminole	0.1	70
March 26	6:43 PM CST	F0	Pittsburg	0.2	50
March 26	6:45 PM CST	F2	LeFlore	4.0	300	$1.2 million
March 26	6:55 PM CST	F1	Atoka	0.5	250	$1,000
March 26	7:55 PM CST	F0	Pushmataha	0.2	50	$1,000

April 23 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 23	2:22 PM CDT	F1	Pittsburg	2.0	120	5	$250,000
April 23	3:08 PM CDT	F2	McCurtain	20.1	50	2	$40,000
April 23	3:11 PM CDT	F2	Pushmataha	9.0	150		$250,000
April 23	3:25 PM CDT	F0	LeFlore	0.2	50
April 23	3:37 PM CDT	F2	Pushmataha	9.0	170		$30,000
April 23	3:58 PM CDT	F1	McCurtain	17.2	70

May 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 24	8:24 PM CDT	F0	Delaware	0.2	50
May 24	8:42 PM CDT	F0	Mayes	0.2	50
May 24	8:57 PM CDT	F0	Mayes	0.2	50
May 24	11:34 PM CDT	F0	Okfuskee	0.2	50

May 25 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 25	11:25 PM CDT	F2	Woods	8.0	250	$50,000
May 25	11:53 PM CDT	F1	Alfalfa	7.0	50	$10,000
May 25	12:00 AM CDT	F1	Major	10.5	220	$30,000
May 25	12:55 AM CDT	F0	Garfield	0.5	20

May 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 26	7:12 PM CDT	F0	Washita	2.6	20	$1,000
May 26	7:47 PM CDT	F0	Caddo	0.1	20
May 26	7:57 PM CDT	F0	Caddo	2.5	100

June 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	8:25 PM CDT	F0	Washington	0.2	50
June 4	8:43 PM CDT	F0	Osage	0.2	50

June 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	11:56 PM CDT	F0	Woodward	0.3	20			$3,000

October 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 21	5:41 PM CDT	F0	Cotton	4.0	30			$2,000

October 22 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 22	4:14 PM CDT	F0	Caddo	4.0	30	$2,000
October 22	5:36 PM CDT	F0	Canadian	0.2	30	$1,000
October 22	6:26 PM CDT	F0	Pontotoc	2.5	20
October 22	7:00 PM CDT	F0	Pontotoc	0.1	10
October 22	7:02 PM CDT	F1	Oklahoma	1.5	40	$120,000
October 22	7:14 PM CDT	F0	Oklahoma	3.0	20	$10,000

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
February 24	8:13 PM CST	F1	Lipscomb, TX to OK	27.0	150			$90,000

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.