Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2004 tornadoes in Oklahoma

62 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2004, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2003 2005 The whole country in 2004

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 2004

March 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 4	5:27 PM CST	F0	Sequoyah	1.7	200			$20,000

March 27 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 27	12:43 PM CST	F0	Ellis	2.0	50
March 27	1:20 PM CST	F0	Dewey	0.1	20
March 27	1:33 PM CST	F1	Woodward	4.0	250	$10,000
March 27	1:54 PM CST	F0	Woodward	0.1	10
March 27	2:02 PM CST	F1	Woodward	1.0	100	$1,000
March 27	2:27 PM CST	F0	Woodward	0.1	30
March 27	2:55 PM CST	F0	Woodward	0.1	10
March 27	3:00 PM CST	F0	Custer	0.5	30
March 27	3:30 PM CST	F0	Custer	0.3	20
March 27	3:54 PM CST	F0	Custer	0.1	10
March 27	6:54 PM CST	F0	Canadian	0.1	10

April 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 6	7:10 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.5	10

April 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 20	7:08 PM CDT	F0	Creek	0.4	200

April 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 21	6:29 PM CDT	F1	Creek	1.0	600	$50,000
April 21	7:26 PM CDT	F0	Ellis	0.3	30
April 21	7:28 PM CDT	F0	Ellis	1.0	200

April 22 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 22	3:53 PM CDT	F0	Wagoner	1.6	150
April 22	4:01 PM CDT	F0	Wagoner	4.1	200	$30,000
April 22	4:55 PM CDT	F1	Mayes	6.4	60	$50,000
April 22	5:38 PM CDT	F0	Wagoner	1.2	80
April 22	5:58 PM CDT	F0	Muskogee	80.0	80
April 22	6:02 PM CDT	F0	Muskogee	2.0	200
April 22	6:21 PM CDT	F0	Seminole	0.1	20

April 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 23	2:59 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.2	50

May 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 13	4:04 PM CDT	F1	Wagoner	2.6	135			$100,000

May 24 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 24	6:21 PM CDT	F1	Caddo	0.2	25	$40,000
May 24	6:27 PM CDT	F1	Caddo	0.2	30	$50,000
May 24	7:21 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.5	30
May 24	7:27 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.7	30	$1,000
May 24	7:29 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.3	50	$1,000
May 24	7:32 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.2	30
May 24	7:58 PM CDT	F0	Tillman	0.1	30

May 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	7:37 PM CDT	F0	Noble	3.0	200			$30,000
May 26	8:59 PM CDT	F1	Osage	1.0	100			$10,000

May 29 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 29	6:29 PM CDT	F0	Custer	6.0	200	$1,000
May 29	7:17 PM CDT	F2	Blaine	19.7	1,760	$2.5 million
May 29	8:04 PM CDT	F1	Canadian	4.5	50	$30,000
May 29	8:14 PM CDT	F1	Canadian	2.0	20	$10,000
May 29	8:22 PM CDT	F0	Canadian	0.1	20
May 29	8:45 PM CDT	F1	Canadian	1.0	50	$150,000
May 29	9:04 PM CDT	F2	Oklahoma	4.6	100	$5.0 million
May 29	10:01 PM CDT	F1	Logan	0.3	50	$50,000
May 29	10:17 PM CDT	F0	Logan	4.0	100
May 29	10:27 PM CDT	F1	Lincoln	2.5	300	$250,000
May 29	11:18 PM CDT	F3	Creek	7.5	700	$350,000
May 29	11:33 PM CDT	F1	Creek	4.6	425	$150,000
May 29	12:12 AM CDT	F1	Creek	5.4	200	$30,000
May 29	12:33 AM CDT	F0	Creek	0.1	75	$10,000

May 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 30	1:42 AM CDT	F0	Wagoner	3.5	300			$10,000
May 30	1:51 AM CDT	F1	Mayes	7.2	600			$30,000

June 9 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 9	5:35 PM CDT	F0	Cleveland	0.3	20	$10,000
June 9	6:24 PM CDT	F1	Lincoln	4.0	50	$150,000
June 9	6:53 PM CDT	F1	Lincoln	2.0	30	$200,000

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	6:17 PM CDT	F0	Cimarron	0.3	50			$10,000

October 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 6	3:38 PM CDT	F0	Cotton	1.0	25

November 10 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 10	4:36 PM CST	F0	Oklahoma	1.2	75	$50,000
November 10	4:43 PM CST	F1	Oklahoma	3.0	400	$1.0 million
November 10	5:00 PM CST	F0	Oklahoma	1.2	20
November 10	5:40 PM CST	F1	Lincoln	3.0	600	$200,000
November 10	6:05 PM CST	F0	Lincoln	0.1	20
November 10	6:15 PM CST	F0	Lincoln	0.1	20

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.