Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2017 tornadoes in Oklahoma

85 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2017, 44 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 40.

2016 2018 The whole country in 2017

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 2017

March 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 6	9:44 PM CST	EF1	Adair	6.1	650			$100,000

March 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 26	7:14 PM CDT	EF0	Pontotoc	4.0	50			$1,000
March 26	7:27 PM CDT	EF0	Pontotoc	0.3	30

April 16 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 16	6:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Major	0.5	30
April 16	7:09 PM CDT	Unrated	Major	0.1	30
April 16	7:42 PM CDT	Unrated	Major	2.0	30

April 25 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 25	10:13 PM CDT	EF0	Pontotoc	0.7	50	$4,000
April 25	10:50 PM CDT	EF0	Hughes	1.3	30	$5,000
April 25	11:33 PM CDT	EF1	Mayes	6.4	550	$75,000
April 25	11:34 PM CDT	EF1	Mayes	4.1	600	$40,000
April 25	11:46 PM CDT	EF1	Mayes	10.2	400	$25,000

April 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 28	10:36 PM CDT	EF2	LeFlore	8.1	750			$150,000

April 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	4:17 PM CDT	EF1	Sequoyah	7.3	600			$20,000

May 10 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 10	8:05 PM CDT	EF0	Tillman	0.3	30
May 10	8:31 PM CDT	Unrated	Tillman	0.3	50
May 10	8:36 PM CDT	Unrated	Cotton	2.0	100

May 11 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 11	2:01 PM CDT	EF1	Rogers	1.5	300	$500,000
May 11	2:27 PM CDT	EF1	Rogers	3.1	350
May 11	3:13 PM CDT	Unrated	Payne	0.1	50
May 11	5:11 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	50

May 16 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	2:45 PM CDT	EF0	Beaver	0.1	25
May 16	6:08 PM CDT	Unrated	Beckham	1.0	20
May 16	6:18 PM CDT	EF2	Roger Mills	10.3	150			$40,000
May 16	6:23 PM CDT	Unrated	Beckham	1.1	50
May 16	6:45 PM CDT	EF1	Roger Mills	0.8	50			$1,000
May 16	6:46 PM CDT	EF2	Beckham	18.0	1,000	1	10	$25 million

May 18 30 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 18	2:02 PM CDT	Unrated	Jackson	0.7	50
May 18	2:11 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	1.2	75	$5,000
May 18	3:29 PM CDT	EF1	Washita	6.0	100	$5,000
May 18	3:40 PM CDT	Unrated	Washita	0.5	100
May 18	4:11 PM CDT	Unrated	Dewey	0.2	50
May 18	4:20 PM CDT	Unrated	Custer	0.2	30
May 18	4:23 PM CDT	EF0	Woodward	8.6	200	$10,000
May 18	4:33 PM CDT	EF0	Blaine	0.2	50	$5,000
May 18	4:37 PM CDT	Unrated	Major	0.2	30
May 18	4:40 PM CDT	Unrated	Washita	0.3	50
May 18	4:49 PM CDT	EF1	Woods	9.0	200	$2,000
May 18	4:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Woods	0.2	50
May 18	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Blaine	3.4	50	$12,000
May 18	7:00 PM CDT	EF0	Stephens	0.2	50	$2,000
May 18	9:13 PM CDT	EF0	Pontotoc	0.6	75	$5,000
May 18	9:46 PM CDT	EF1	Pittsburg	8.2	1,000	$30,000
May 18	9:56 PM CDT	EF1	Pittsburg	4.6	1,000	$15,000
May 18	9:57 PM CDT	EF2	McIntosh	13.7	850	$175,000
May 18	10:11 PM CDT	EF1	McIntosh	4.7	500	$75,000
May 18	10:15 PM CDT	EF1	McIntosh	3.8	450	$25,000
May 18	10:25 PM CDT	EF1	McIntosh	8.8	600	$125,000
May 18	10:30 PM CDT	EF1	Wagoner	5.0	500	$25,000
May 18	10:35 PM CDT	EF1	Muskogee	5.3	900	$20,000
May 18	10:37 PM CDT	EF1	Muskogee	2.0	400	$25,000
May 18	10:39 PM CDT	EF1	Wagoner	10.3	700	$120,000
May 18	10:40 PM CDT	EF2	Muskogee	2.8	400	$350,000
May 18	10:41 PM CDT	EF1	Muskogee	3.7	350	$20,000
May 18	10:45 PM CDT	EF1	Muskogee	16.6	650
May 18	10:48 PM CDT	EF1	Wagoner	12.7	650	$200,000
May 18	11:01 PM CDT	EF1	Cherokee	5.8	800

May 19 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 19	7:22 PM CDT	Unrated	Carter	0.2	50
May 19	7:24 PM CDT	Unrated	Carter	0.2	50
May 19	7:31 PM CDT	Unrated	Carter	0.2	50
May 19	7:47 PM CDT	Unrated	Carter	2.0	400
May 19	9:32 PM CDT	Unrated	Johnston	1.5	50
May 19	9:44 PM CDT	Unrated	Johnston	2.0	50
May 19	9:56 PM CDT	Unrated	Johnston	6.0	50
May 19	10:13 PM CDT	Unrated	Coal	3.0	50

May 27 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 27	8:20 PM CDT	EF0	Okfuskee	2.1	100
May 27	8:55 PM CDT	Unrated	Okfuskee	0.6	100
May 27	10:17 PM CDT	Unrated	Murray	2.8	50
May 27	10:39 PM CDT	Unrated	Johnston	1.5	50
May 27	11:06 PM CDT	Unrated	Jefferson	2.5	100
May 27	11:45 PM CDT	EF1	Crawford to AR	11.2	700	$30,000

June 25 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 25	6:08 PM CDT	EF0	Cimarron	0.1	10
June 25	6:33 PM CDT	EF0	Cimarron	0.1	10

August 6 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
August 6	1:19 AM CDT	EF2	Tulsa	6.9	550	30	$50 million
August 6	1:27 AM CDT	EF1	Tulsa	2.9	400		$220,000
August 6	1:32 AM CDT	EF1	Rogers	4.5	200		$15,000
August 6	2:11 AM CDT	EF1	Rogers	0.9	400		$5,000

October 21 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 21	5:23 PM CDT	Unrated	Tillman	0.1	20
October 21	6:05 PM CDT	Unrated	Comanche	0.2	30
October 21	7:08 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo	4.8	200	$3,000
October 21	7:12 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo	0.5	50	$5,000
October 21	7:12 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo	6.2	400	$15,000
October 21	7:16 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo	3.1	150	$10,000
October 21	7:23 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo	3.3	100	$3,000
October 21	8:36 PM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	3.4	50	$102,000
October 21	9:52 PM CDT	EF1	Seminole	2.0	150	$50,000

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.