Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2020 tornadoes in Oklahoma

38 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2020, 36 percent below the average of the record for the state. They killed 2 people and injured 2.

2019 2021 The whole country in 2020

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 2020

January 10 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 10	10:34 AM CST	EF0	Lincoln	1.3	10	$25,000
January 10	11:55 AM CST	Unrated	Mayes	1.0	50
January 10	2:49 PM CST	EF1	Cherokee	5.8	250	$50,000

March 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 19	1:53 AM CDT	EF0	Creek	0.6	75			$35,000
March 19	10:25 AM CDT	EF1	Okfuskee	2.7	225			$30,000

April 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 21	11:28 PM CDT	EF1	Comanche	0.3	100			$50,000
April 21	11:43 PM CDT	EF1	Stephens	1.6	100			$75,000

April 22 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 22	4:17 PM CDT	EF1	Garvin	2.2	600			$200,000
April 22	4:23 PM CDT	EF0	Carter	0.1	20			$2,000
April 22	4:24 PM CDT	EF2	Murray	4.7	600
April 22	4:45 PM CDT	Unrated	Marshall	0.2	50
April 22	4:53 PM CDT	EF2	Marshall	4.3	400	2	1	$500,000
April 22	5:10 PM CDT	EF0	Marshall	1.4	50			$20,000
April 22	5:26 PM CDT	EF1	Johnston	5.0	100			$100,000
April 22	5:32 PM CDT	EF1	Bryan	5.2	500			$100,000
April 22	5:52 PM CDT	EF1	Bryan	1.2	30			$20,000
April 22	5:59 PM CDT	EF0	Coal	0.1	30

April 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 28	9:02 PM CDT	EF1	Pushmataha	5.2	550	$5,000
April 28	10:05 PM CDT	EF1	McCurtain	3.2	100	$100,000
April 28	10:20 PM CDT	EF2	McCurtain to AR	19.4	350	$700,000

May 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 4	5:50 PM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	2.0	50			$20,000

May 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	9:38 AM CDT	EF1	Muskogee	4.8	525		1	$350,000
May 15	7:32 PM CDT	Unrated	Tillman	0.3	50

May 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	5:20 PM CDT	EF0	McCurtain	0.1	20

May 22 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 22	8:55 PM CDT	Unrated	LeFlore	1.7	75
May 22	9:32 PM CDT	Unrated	Latimer	0.3	50
May 22	9:58 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore	0.9	100
May 22	10:05 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore	3.0	225	$30,000
May 22	10:15 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore	2.7	200

May 25 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 25	5:37 PM CDT	EF0	Sequoyah	0.5	100	$100,000
May 25	7:11 PM CDT	EF1	Adair	0.6	120
May 25	7:34 PM CDT	EF0	Delaware	0.1	50
May 25	7:45 PM CDT	EF1	Delaware	0.3	75
May 25	8:13 PM CDT	EF0	Delaware	2.2	300

May 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 28	6:56 PM CDT	EF0	Osage	0.1	50			$20,000

July 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 11	12:04 AM CDT	EF0	Cleveland	0.2	10			$20,000

November 24 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 24	8:54 PM CST	EF1	Haskell	3.0	200			$50,000
November 24	9:50 PM CST	EF1	LeFlore	4.0	250			$5,000

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
May 16	2:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Little River, AR to OK	2.2	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.