Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2021 tornadoes in Oklahoma

63 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2021, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2020 2022 The whole country in 2021

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 2021

January 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
January 30	1:43 PM CST	Unrated	Nowata	1.2	100
January 30	1:46 PM CST	Unrated	Nowata	0.4	75
January 30	1:48 PM CST	Unrated	Nowata	1.5	150
January 30	1:56 PM CST	Unrated	Nowata	2.0	100

March 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 13	8:15 PM CST	EF0	Jackson	0.2	30
March 13	8:29 PM CST	Unrated	Harmon	0.2	20
March 13	8:49 PM CST	EF1	Greer	0.7	50	$15,000

April 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	7:15 PM CDT	EF0	Tillman	0.1	20
April 27	12:00 AM CDT	EF1	Garvin	4.5	150			$30,000

April 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 28	6:01 AM CDT	Unrated	Adair	1.5	100
April 28	6:06 AM CDT	EF1	Adair	7.1	225	$50,000
April 28	10:57 AM CDT	EF1	Pittsburg	7.4	300	$25,000

May 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 3	9:33 PM CDT	EF1	Sequoyah to AR	28.8	2,200		1	$16 million
May 3	9:36 PM CDT	EF1	Sequoyah to AR	10.3	900			$110,000

May 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 27	1:16 PM CDT	EF0	Kingfisher	0.1	10
May 27	7:13 PM CDT	EF1	McIntosh	3.0	500			$25,000

May 30 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 30	5:34 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	0.1	20
May 30	5:39 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	0.1	1
May 30	5:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	0.1	1
May 30	5:56 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	0.4	1
May 30	6:02 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	0.3	1
May 30	6:02 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	2.9	50
May 30	6:44 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	0.5	30

June 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	4:01 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	0.5	10

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	7:25 PM CDT	EF1	Payne	1.4	100			$50,000

October 10 18 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 10	5:59 PM CDT	Unrated	Kiowa	0.1	20
October 10	6:13 PM CDT	EF1	Kiowa	2.9	200	$30,000
October 10	6:20 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo	4.4	50	$40,000
October 10	6:45 PM CDT	EF2	Caddo	8.1	100	$60,000
October 10	7:02 PM CDT	Unrated	Grady	1.8	50
October 10	7:16 PM CDT	Unrated	Grady	0.2	50
October 10	8:21 PM CDT	EF0	Oklahoma	3.3	250	$20,000
October 10	8:41 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	1.1	30	$5,000
October 10	8:41 PM CDT	EF0	Pottawatomie	1.6	50	$10,000
October 10	8:54 PM CDT	EF0	Pottawatomie	1.6	50
October 10	9:26 PM CDT	EF1	Okfuskee	2.7	300	$150,000
October 10	9:26 PM CDT	EF1	Pontotoc	7.3	300	$100,000
October 10	9:42 PM CDT	Unrated	Creek	1.0	100
October 10	10:05 PM CDT	EF0	Okmulgee	2.2	300	$10,000
October 10	10:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Tulsa	0.7	100
October 10	10:45 PM CDT	EF1	Wagoner	3.4	700	$3.0 million
October 10	11:30 PM CDT	EF1	Muskogee	13.7	900	$65,000
October 10	12:10 AM CDT	EF1	Delaware	5.9	200

October 12 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 12	6:48 PM CDT	EF0	Beckham	0.1	10
October 12	7:24 PM CDT	Unrated	Washita	0.1	25
October 12	7:38 PM CDT	EF0	Tillman	0.4	30
October 12	7:41 PM CDT	EF1	Tillman	7.3	300	$50,000
October 12	7:55 PM CDT	EF1	Custer	9.6	400
October 12	8:01 PM CDT	Unrated	Custer	0.2	20
October 12	8:19 PM CDT	EF1	Tillman	0.9	300	$5,000
October 12	8:26 PM CDT	EF1	Comanche	8.4	900	$15,000
October 12	9:00 PM CDT	Unrated	Comanche	2.6	50
October 12	9:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Caddo	0.5	30

October 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 13	4:59 AM CDT	EF1	Canadian	6.4	150	$50,000
October 13	5:15 AM CDT	EF1	Oklahoma	3.3	75	$20,000
October 13	5:22 AM CDT	EF0	Oklahoma	4.2	50	$1,000

October 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 26	8:55 PM CDT	Unrated	Roger Mills	0.2	50
October 26	11:54 PM CDT	EF0	Canadian	0.3	20	$5,000
October 26	12:36 AM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	6.6	50	$25,000

November 10 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 10	6:35 PM CST	Unrated	Stephens	4.0	100
November 10	7:14 PM CST	EF0	Tulsa	0.5	150	$25,000
November 10	7:26 PM CST	EF0	Wagoner	0.4	100	$75,000
November 10	7:29 PM CST	EF0	Rogers	0.3	80

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.