1,268 first-hand accounts of flood events in Oklahoma, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A weak and slow-moving upper trough translated across the WFO Norman Forecast Area on the 12th. A low-level airmass characterized by high humidity and modest buoyancy led to thunderstorms with heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Summary of flash flooding on April 25 1999:A solid area of heavy rainfall lifted northeastward across northeast Oklahoma during the morning and early afternoon of April 25. Widespread rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches occurred across the area.
Read the full account →A weak cold front and an outflow boundary provided the focus for slow moving and training thunderstorms which produced an average of 2 to 5 inches of rain across parts of northern Tulsa, Rogers, Mayes, Delaware, northern Cherokee and northern Adair Counties during the morning of…
Read the full account →Excessive heavy rainfall developed across McCurtain County in Southeast Oklahoma during the late morning and early afternoon hours of May 24th. A complex of storms moved eastward out of Southern Oklahoma and North Central Texas during the morning hours of May 24th.
Read the full account →A strong surface low developed over the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. During the afternoon, a weak wave of low pressure aloft acted to drive a warm front southward as a cold front.
Read the full account →A boundary moved southeast into Oklahoma during the afternoon hours of the 9th. An upper level wave accompanied this front, and combined with afternoon heating helping severe thunderstorms to develop during the afternoon and overnight hours.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms formed over portions of northern Oklahoma during the morning of the 24th and moved southward during the day, eventually dissipating across southern Oklahoma during the evening of the 24th.
Read the full account →Shower and thunderstorm development on the northern periphery of the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine affected portions of southeast Oklahoma beginning on September 7th, while the center was still over central Texas.
Read the full account →A slow-moving storm system produced heavy rainfall over much of southwest Oklahoma and western North Texas and parts of central, and southeast Oklahoma during mid March. Precipitation totals between 3 and 6 inches were recorded during the three-day period of March 15-17, 1998.
Read the full account →Five to 7 inches of rain fell across portions of central Oklahoma from the 24th through the 26th. Local amounts of rainfall exceeded 10 inches from near Allen in Pontotoc County northeast to near Calvin in Hughes County.
Read the full account →An unseasonably strong upper level storm system moved over the southern half of Oklahoma, beginning on the 18th and continuing through the 19th. Abundant moisture was in place ahead of the storm system and even increased as the storm system began moving east over the Red River.
Read the full account →A prolonged area of southwest flow aloft developed over much of Oklahoma during the period from the 10th through the 12th. Numerous upper level disturbances moving through the flow, as well as a very moist air mass allowed for several rounds of showers and thunderstorms to…
Read the full account →Summary of flash flooding on April 26 1999:Following three to five inches of rain on April 25, a broad band of rain and thunderstorms shifted across all of eastern Oklahoma on the morning of April 26 in advance of a closed upper-level low.
Read the full account →An upper level storm system moved slowly east northeast through southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico. A couple of disturbances rotated around the storm system and moved over the southern plains during the morning and afternoon hours.
Read the full account →On the 8th, modest northwesterly flow aloft, including an embedded upper-level impulse, was present across the Southern Plains. This enhanced flow and lift contributed to scattered supercell thunderstorms from southern Kansas into portions of northern Oklahoma and the adjacent…
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours of the 13th over central Oklahoma ahead of a cold front moving into the region. These storms moved into eastern Oklahoma during the late afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →Moderate northwest flow aloft existed over Oklahoma, with a diffuse frontal boundary extending west-east across the center of the state. Elevated thunderstorms developed in the early morning before sunrise, primarily near the I-35 corridor, and trained over a region roughly…
Read the full account →Severe storms developed near a stalled boundary across Oklahoma and the panhandles and moved eastward through the afternoon and evening of the 19th, causing widespread heavy rainfall and additional flooding.
Read the full account →Severe storms developed near a stalled boundary across Oklahoma and the panhandles and moved eastward through the afternoon and evening of the 19th, causing widespread heavy rainfall and additional flooding.
Read the full account →Severe storms developed near a stalled boundary across Oklahoma and the panhandles and moved eastward through the afternoon and evening of the 19th, causing widespread heavy rainfall and additional flooding.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Erin, the fifth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season, developed quickly over the northeast Gulf of Mexico on the 15th, before moving onshore during the morning hours of the 16th.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of the 24th, a stalled frontal boundary extended across northwestern Arkansas and far southeastern Oklahoma. This boundary began to lift to the north with widespread showers and thunderstorms initiating north of the boundary and affecting much of eastern…
Read the full account →On the afternoon of the 24th, a stalled frontal boundary extended across northwestern Arkansas and far southeastern Oklahoma. This boundary began to lift to the north with widespread showers and thunderstorms initiating north of the boundary and affecting much of eastern…
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms occurred during the overnight hours of the 3rd into the early morning hours of the 4th, to the north of a frontal boundary that became stationary over southeast Oklahoma.
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