Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2005 tornadoes in Oklahoma

27 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2005, 54 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2004 2006 The whole country in 2005

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 2005

March 21 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 21	3:16 PM CST	F0	Alfalfa	1.5	50
March 21	3:18 PM CST	F0	Seminole	0.1	20	$10,000
March 21	3:45 PM CST	F0	Alfalfa	0.3	100
March 21	3:45 PM CST	F0	Hughes	0.1	20
March 21	3:59 PM CST	F0	Okfuskee	0.7	40
March 21	4:06 PM CST	F0	Okfuskee	0.3	40
March 21	4:12 PM CST	F0	Okfuskee	1.5	50	$10,000
March 21	6:45 PM CST	F0	Haskell	0.7	40

April 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 5	6:35 PM CDT	F0	Latimer	1.5	75
April 5	6:42 PM CDT	F0	Latimer	2.0	75
April 5	7:08 PM CDT	F1	Sequoyah	2.5	150	$10,000

April 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 10	8:30 PM CDT	F1	Oklahoma	5.0	75			$150,000

April 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 21	7:48 PM CDT	F0	Rogers	0.1	30
April 21	8:30 PM CDT	F0	Wagoner	0.1	30

April 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 25	8:50 PM CDT	F1	Johnston	3.0	100			$120,000

June 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	2:45 PM CDT	F0	Wagoner	0.1	30

June 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 3	11:30 PM CDT	F0	Kay	0.2	30

June 4 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 4	6:07 PM CDT	F0	Comanche	3.5	150
June 4	6:45 PM CDT	F0	Stephens	0.1	20
June 4	6:53 PM CDT	F0	Stephens	0.1	20
June 4	7:05 PM CDT	F0	Stephens	0.2	75	$1,000
June 4	7:13 PM CDT	F0	Osage	1.0	75	$50,000

June 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 5	7:25 PM CDT	F0	Kiowa	0.3	30
June 5	7:36 PM CDT	F1	Kiowa	1.0	50			$10,000

June 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 9	8:06 PM CDT	F0	Beaver	0.1	25

September 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 30	9:15 PM CDT	F1	Comanche	4.0	250			$10,000

October 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 19	5:47 PM CDT	F1	Harper	13.0	400			$40,000

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.