Tornadoes · United States · Oklahoma

2023 tornadoes in Oklahoma

75 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2023, 27 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 2 people and injured 17.

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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 2023

January 2 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 2	4:37 PM CST	Unrated	Osage	0.1	100
January 2	5:32 PM CST	EF0	Mayes	5.3	700	$50,000
January 2	5:52 PM CST	EF1	McIntosh	8.6	650	$100,000
January 2	6:23 PM CST	EF1	Ottawa	0.6	200	$75,000
January 2	7:25 PM CST	Unrated	Sequoyah	2.5	200

February 26 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 26	7:08 PM CST	Unrated	Harmon	7.5	200
February 26	7:13 PM CST	EF1	Beckham	6.0	100			$75,000
February 26	7:13 PM CST	EF2	Roger Mills	7.0	500	1	3	$250,000
February 26	7:23 PM CST	EF1	Greer	11.0	75			$50,000
February 26	7:45 PM CST	EF1	Kiowa	7.5	600			$100,000
February 26	8:31 PM CST	EF0	Alfalfa	0.2	50			$10,000
February 26	8:32 PM CST	EF0	Caddo	5.1	75			$30,000
February 26	8:52 PM CST	EF0	Grady	0.3	75			$10,000
February 26	8:57 PM CST	EF1	Grady	10.7	200			$255,000
February 26	9:12 PM CST	EF1	Oklahoma	5.5	500			$100,000
February 26	9:15 PM CST	EF2	McClain	26.1	900		12	$50 million
February 26	9:42 PM CST	EF1	Cleveland	6.0	440			$105,000
February 26	9:45 PM CST	EF2	Pottawatomie	6.1	200			$255,000

March 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 2	9:05 PM CST	EF1	McCurtain	4.8	390			$10,000

March 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 16	2:57 PM CDT	EF0	Stephens	0.1	20

April 19 18 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 19	7:03 PM CDT	EF0	Oklahoma	2.6	250			$155,000
April 19	7:20 PM CDT	EF1	Grady	2.9	200			$30,000
April 19	7:30 PM CDT	EF3	McClain	10.9	1,200	1	2	$4.0 million
April 19	7:38 PM CDT	EF1	McClain	1.2	250			$5,000
April 19	7:47 PM CDT	EF1	McClain	2.2	400			$30,000
April 19	7:55 PM CDT	EF1	McClain	7.5	700			$26,000
April 19	7:56 PM CDT	EF1	McClain	0.8	50			$4,000
April 19	8:32 PM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	2.1	150			$10,000
April 19	8:36 PM CDT	EF2	Cleveland	5.4	700			$500,000
April 19	8:41 PM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	1.6	50			$50,000
April 19	8:47 PM CDT	EF2	Cleveland	4.2	2,200			$775,000
April 19	9:04 PM CDT	EF3	Pottawatomie	0.6	250			$50,000
April 19	9:07 PM CDT	EF0	Cleveland	0.3	60			$5,000
April 19	9:13 PM CDT	EF2	Pottawatomie	6.3	700			$105,000
April 19	9:18 PM CDT	EF0	Cleveland	1.0	75			$10,000
April 19	9:21 PM CDT	EF1	Pottawatomie	1.9	400			$50,000
April 19	9:39 PM CDT	EF2	Pottawatomie	15.0	2,300			$4.0 million
April 19	10:39 PM CDT	EF1	Pottawatomie	0.8	50

May 11 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 11	6:25 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	1.0	20
May 11	6:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Grady	2.9	50
May 11	7:36 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	0.4	30	$4,000
May 11	7:42 PM CDT	EF0	McClain	2.1	30	$5,000
May 11	7:45 PM CDT	Unrated	Grady	0.2	20
May 11	8:04 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	1.5	75
May 11	8:12 PM CDT	EF0	McClain	0.4	30
May 11	8:29 PM CDT	EF1	McClain	9.4	250	$100,000
May 11	9:03 PM CDT	EF1	Cleveland	2.3	300	$200,000
May 11	9:33 PM CDT	EF0	Cleveland	0.2	25	$10,000
May 11	9:47 PM CDT	Unrated	Pottawatomie	0.2	50
May 11	10:16 PM CDT	EF0	Pottawatomie	1.7	300

May 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 12	8:06 PM CDT	EF0	Kay	0.3	10

May 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 13	3:18 PM CDT	EF0	Grady	0.1	20

May 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 19	12:35 PM CDT	EF0	Blaine	0.1	10

June 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	4:06 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	0.9	35
June 13	4:19 PM CDT	Unrated	Cimarron	1.9	30

June 15 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 15	4:58 PM CDT	EF0	Comanche	3.8	50	$10,000
June 15	5:10 PM CDT	EF0	Cotton	1.2	50	$10,000
June 15	5:11 PM CDT	Unrated	Stephens	0.5	50
June 15	5:34 PM CDT	EF0	Stephens	0.8	200
June 15	5:37 PM CDT	EF1	Stephens	0.5	20	$30,000
June 15	5:58 PM CDT	Unrated	Jefferson	0.8	50
June 15	6:03 PM CDT	EF1	Stephens	1.5	50	$10,000
June 15	6:16 PM CDT	EF2	Jefferson	4.1	1,000	$250,000
June 15	6:47 PM CDT	Unrated	Roger Mills	1.0	50
June 15	7:26 PM CDT	EF0	Love	0.5	10

June 17 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 17	6:08 PM CDT	Unrated	Beaver	2.2	50
June 17	7:42 PM CDT	EF1	Harper	8.5	300	$42,000
June 17	9:24 PM CDT	Unrated	Alfalfa	1.5	30
June 17	12:40 AM CDT	EF1	Rogers	10.9	1,000	$75,000
June 17	12:56 AM CDT	EF1	Rogers	5.2	800	$10,000

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	1:09 AM CDT	EF1	Mayes	4.1	300

June 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	7:28 PM CDT	Unrated	Texas	0.1	25

July 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	4:35 AM CDT	EF1	Woodward	0.5	50

October 25 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 25	4:58 PM CDT	EF0	Garvin	0.3	20
October 25	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Pottawatomie	0.5	20

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
June 15	6:29 PM CDT	EF1	Ellis, TX to OK	4.8	200			$11,000

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.