Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2022 tornadoes in Oklahoma

54 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2022, 8 percent below the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 2.

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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 2022

March 21 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 21	5:17 PM CDT	EF0	Love	6.8	50	$20,000
March 21	6:29 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	10.1	200	$500,000
March 21	6:32 PM CDT	EF0	Marshall	2.6	20
March 21	6:43 PM CDT	EF1	Johnston	7.1	200	$100,000

March 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 30	4:39 AM CDT	EF0	Pittsburg	0.6	100			$75,000

April 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 11	7:11 PM CDT	Unrated	LeFlore	0.8	100

April 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 13	8:50 AM CDT	EF1	Adair	6.5	700		1	$300,000

April 23 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 23	7:01 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	3.8	30	$10,000
April 23	7:15 PM CDT	Unrated	Canadian	0.3	50
April 23	8:20 PM CDT	EF0	Oklahoma	0.8	30	$2,000
April 23	8:25 PM CDT	EF0	Oklahoma	0.6	20	$1,000

April 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 24	1:57 AM CDT	EF0	Garvin	0.3	50			$30,000

May 2 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 2	4:13 PM CDT	EF0	Kingfisher	0.6	80
May 2	4:22 PM CDT	EF0	Kingfisher	0.9	80
May 2	4:36 PM CDT	EF0	Caddo	1.6	10	$30,000
May 2	5:13 PM CDT	EF0	Caddo	0.5	240	$100,000
May 2	5:18 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore	5.6	1,400	$100,000
May 2	5:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Noble	1.4	150
May 2	6:26 PM CDT	EF1	Payne	6.5	500	$50,000
May 2	7:52 PM CDT	EF1	Seminole	6.3	700	$150,000
May 2	9:03 PM CDT	Unrated	Cherokee	0.1	75

May 4 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 4	6:23 PM CDT	EF0	Pottawatomie	4.6	100	$100,000
May 4	6:37 PM CDT	Unrated	Pottawatomie	1.0	100
May 4	6:44 PM CDT	EF2	Seminole	12.5	1,760	$300,000
May 4	7:01 PM CDT	EF0	Seminole	2.0	175
May 4	7:21 PM CDT	EF1	Seminole	13.6	1,350	$120,000
May 4	7:44 PM CDT	EF1	Okfuskee	0.4	150	$15,000
May 4	8:07 PM CDT	EF1	Pottawatomie	2.3	100	$10,000
May 4	8:28 PM CDT	EF2	Pottawatomie	3.4	150	$200,000
May 4	8:35 PM CDT	EF1	Pottawatomie	4.5	175	$10,000
May 4	8:58 PM CDT	EF1	Seminole	1.8	150	$30,000
May 4	9:52 PM CDT	Unrated	Kiowa	0.2	20
May 4	10:22 PM CDT	Unrated	Tillman	1.0	50

May 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 5	2:09 AM CDT	EF1	Pittsburg	2.4	450			$30,000
May 5	1:53 PM CDT	EF0	Bryan	0.1	10

May 31 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 31	6:32 PM CDT	EF0	Harmon	0.5	20
May 31	6:55 PM CDT	Unrated	Harmon	0.3	20
May 31	10:31 PM CDT	EF1	Tillman	1.0	200	$6,000
May 31	11:17 PM CDT	EF1	Tillman	4.7	100	$10,000

July 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 28	10:35 PM CDT	EF1	Tulsa	4.0	800			$55,000

October 24 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 24	9:27 AM CDT	EF0	Canadian	2.9	50			$5,000
October 24	10:32 AM CDT	EF0	Pottawatomie	0.1	10

November 4 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 4	1:30 PM CDT	EF1	Bryan	3.4	40			$75,000
November 4	5:46 PM CDT	EF2	McCurtain	2.8	800	1	1	$300,000
November 4	5:51 PM CDT	EF1	McCurtain	11.3	1,600			$70,000
November 4	6:33 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore	6.5	900			$75,000

December 12 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 12	9:21 PM CST	Unrated	Beaver	1.2	50
December 12	9:38 PM CST	EF0	Beaver	0.7	50

December 13 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 13	12:13 AM CST	Unrated	Beckham	0.2	40
December 13	4:24 AM CST	EF1	Stephens	0.3	50	$3,000
December 13	4:51 AM CST	EF2	Grady	0.6	50	$75,000
December 13	5:27 AM CST	EF2	McClain	4.9	300	$80,000
December 13	5:46 AM CST	EF0	Pottawatomie	0.6	30	$5,000
December 13	5:55 AM CST	EF1	Garvin	4.2	100	$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
March 21	6:11 PM CDT	EF2	Marshall, TX to OK	5.1	200	1	11	$500,000
May 31	5:54 PM CDT	EF0	Harmon, TX to OK	2.4	180			$50,000
November 4	4:16 PM CDT	EF4	Lamar, TX to OK	44.7	1,700		11	$5.9 million
November 4	6:15 PM CDT	EF4	Red River, TX to OK	60.2	1,056		13	$37 million

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.