Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2013 tornadoes in Oklahoma

82 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2013, 39 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 34 people and injured 270. 2 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

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The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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 2013

January 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 29	6:48 AM CST	EF1	Logan	1.1	40			$200,000
January 29	2:55 PM CST	EF2	Crawford to AR	9.0	700			$20,000

March 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 30	9:35 PM CDT	EF0	Muskogee	1.1	200			$30,000
March 30	11:20 PM CDT	EF1	Sequoyah	0.5	175			$100,000

April 17 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 17	6:50 PM CDT	EF0	Comanche	3.4	100	$200,000
April 17	8:35 PM CDT	EF1	Tillman	5.2	200	$500,000
April 17	11:50 PM CDT	EF0	Tulsa	0.5	50
April 17	12:01 AM CDT	EF0	Tulsa	1.3	250	$50,000
April 17	12:03 AM CDT	EF1	Tulsa	2.1	400	$250,000
April 17	12:28 AM CDT	EF0	Rogers	0.9	125	$40,000
April 17	12:29 AM CDT	EF1	Rogers	1.8	140	$100,000
April 17	12:33 AM CDT	EF1	Rogers	1.9	180	$80,000
April 17	12:48 AM CDT	EF1	Mayes	6.5	100	$30,000

April 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 18	1:07 AM CDT	EF1	Mayes	3.5	350		2	$750,000
April 18	1:30 AM CDT	EF2	Delaware	8.0	800			$400,000

April 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	6:31 PM CDT	EF0	Dewey	0.2	50

May 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	8:18 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	0.1	50

May 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 9	5:00 PM CDT	EF0	Kiowa	0.1	10
May 9	6:21 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.1	20

May 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	6:34 PM CDT	EF0	Pontotoc	0.5	50			$20,000

May 19 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 19	4:22 PM CDT	EF1	Oklahoma	4.5	900
May 19	4:33 PM CDT	EF1	Oklahoma	0.5	200
May 19	4:41 PM CDT	EF3	Oklahoma	20.8	1,200		4
May 19	6:00 PM CDT	EF4	Cleveland	23.0	1,500	2	10
May 19	6:40 PM CDT	EF0	Pottawatomie	2.0	30
May 19	6:47 PM CDT	EF0	Creek	0.2	50
May 19	6:59 PM CDT	EF2	Lincoln	7.3	450
May 19	7:17 PM CDT	EF1	Lincoln	14.4	700			$50,000

May 20 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	2:56 PM CDT	EF5	Cleveland	13.8	1,900	24	212	$2.0 billion
May 20	2:58 PM CDT	EF0	Stephens	1.0	30
May 20	3:07 PM CDT	EF1	Stephens	4.0	200			$20,000
May 20	3:51 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	6.5	500			$5,000
May 20	4:21 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	4.5	400			$10,000
May 20	4:33 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	6.0	500			$30,000
May 20	4:40 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	1.2	100
May 20	6:25 PM CDT	EF2	Ottawa	10.0	800			$1.0 million
May 20	6:32 PM CDT	EF1	Adair to MO	2.0	150
May 20	6:32 PM CDT	EF1	Ottawa to MO	9.3	600			$250,000
May 20	6:35 PM CDT	EF1	Adair	2.5	300			$15,000
May 20	6:40 PM CDT	EF1	Adair to AR	8.0	500			$225,000
May 20	6:49 PM CDT	EF1	Coal	5.9	250			$30,000
May 20	8:33 PM CDT	EF0	LeFlore	0.7	260
May 20	8:44 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore	8.5	500			$5,000

May 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 28	3:08 PM CDT	EF0	Beaver	0.8	25
May 28	3:29 PM CDT	EF0	Beaver	1.8	25

May 29 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 29	5:00 PM CDT	EF1	Canadian	0.2	20	$20,000
May 29	6:42 PM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	0.1	10	$40,000
May 29	7:21 PM CDT	EF0	Beckham	0.8	150

May 30 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 30	3:08 PM CDT	EF0	Payne	0.3	100
May 30	3:15 PM CDT	EF0	Payne	0.7	100
May 30	3:26 PM CDT	EF0	Payne	1.6	200
May 30	3:35 PM CDT	EF2	Polk to AR	8.6	800	5	$295,000
May 30	3:37 PM CDT	EF0	Payne	0.4	50
May 30	4:01 PM CDT	EF0	Creek	0.1	50
May 30	5:58 PM CDT	EF0	Garvin	0.4	200
May 30	6:49 PM CDT	EF0	Mayes	0.1	50
May 30	6:54 PM CDT	EF0	Mayes	0.1	50
May 30	7:08 PM CDT	EF0	Mayes	0.6	100
May 30	7:24 PM CDT	EF1	Mayes	2.1	200
May 30	8:40 PM CDT	EF2	Tulsa	5.6	450		$3.0 million

May 31 19 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	5:35 PM CDT	EF0	Kingfisher	1.0	50
May 31	5:55 PM CDT	EF0	Canadian	0.3	30			$1,000
May 31	6:03 PM CDT	EF3	Canadian	16.2	4,576	8	26	$300,000
May 31	6:12 PM CDT	EF0	Canadian	0.5	120
May 31	6:13 PM CDT	EF0	Canadian	0.5	350
May 31	6:18 PM CDT	EF0	Osage	0.1	50
May 31	6:29 PM CDT	EF2	Canadian	5.0	150		1	$20,000
May 31	6:30 PM CDT	EF1	Osage	2.5	200			$2,000
May 31	6:38 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	1.2	200			$5,000
May 31	6:51 PM CDT	EF1	Canadian	5.7	600			$150,000
May 31	6:55 PM CDT	EF0	Canadian	0.5	50
May 31	7:21 PM CDT	EF0	Nowata	1.1	310
May 31	7:35 PM CDT	EF0	Oklahoma	0.5	200			$20,000
May 31	7:42 PM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	1.0	100			$100,000
May 31	7:45 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	0.2	50
May 31	7:53 PM CDT	EF1	Oklahoma	1.1	300		8	$80,000
May 31	8:21 PM CDT	EF1	Nowata	3.5	320
May 31	8:27 PM CDT	EF1	Nowata to MO, IL	4.8	350		2	$75,000
May 31	11:23 PM CDT	EF1	Delaware	1.8	500

July 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 23	12:06 AM CDT	EF1	Wagoner	3.5	850			$180,000

July 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 26	3:25 PM CDT	EF0	Marshall	0.1	10

August 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 7	7:36 PM CDT	EF0	Beaver	0.1	25

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 30	3:35 PM CDT	EF1	Garland, AR to OK	8.7	300			$100,000

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.