1,268 first-hand accounts of flood events in Oklahoma, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
The upper low pressure center began to slowly move east throughout the day on the 18th, with heavy rainfall developing along and east of its track. Flash flooding was reported over parts of southeast and central Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A slow-moving cluster of thunderstorms developed across portions of eastern Oklahoma during the morning of the 8th, as an upper level disturbance approached the area from the northwest.
Read the full account →The approach of a compact upper wave, combined with a sagging frontal boundary across the area, provided the lift needed for widespread thunderstorm development.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall produced flash flooding during the late morning and midday hours in and around Keyes Oklahoma in the western Oklahoma panhandle. Water was reported to be a foot deep on streets and flowing into buildings.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across portions of eastern Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 1st, near a frontal boundary draped across the area, as an upper level disturbance approached from the northwest.
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms occurred across portions of Bryan and Atoka Counties during the early morning of the 3rd. In addition to large hail, between 4 and 5 inches of rain fell across western Bryan County. Two homes in Durant and a nursing home in Colbert were flooded.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed across northeastern Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours of the 23rd, as a cold front moved slowly into the area. The strongest thunderstorms produced hail up to ping pong ball size.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed across northeastern Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours of the 23rd, as a cold front moved slowly into the area. The strongest thunderstorms produced hail up to ping pong ball size.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed across northeastern Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours of the 23rd, as a cold front moved slowly into the area. The strongest thunderstorms produced hail up to ping pong ball size.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed over northeastern Oklahoma along a warm front and an outflow boundary from earlier thunderstorms. Tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding were observed with these thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Summary of events for May 22 1999:A slow-moving cold front kicked off clusters of severe thunderstorms on the afternoon and evening of May 22.
Read the full account →A very moist and unstable air mass spread across the Southern Plains ahead of a strong cold front that moved into eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon hours of the 8th.
Read the full account →Some severe and flood hazard, associated with convection from the 12th, lingered into the early morning hours of the 13th. By the afternoon, a few scattered storms developed in the vicinity of a remnant mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) as it translated across southwest into…
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a cold front that pushed into the region during the midday hours of the 19th. The thunderstorms evolved into a line as they pushed eastward and produced damaging wind, large hail and a brief tornado over eastern Oklahoma.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a cold front that pushed into the region during the midday hours of the 19th. The thunderstorms evolved into a line as they pushed eastward and produced damaging wind, large hail and a brief tornado over eastern Oklahoma.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed over portions of central Oklahoma on the 2nd resulting in flooding across Kay and Garfield Counties and scattered reports of large hail and damaging straight-line winds.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms which formed over portions of western and central Oklahoma during the late evening of the 29th and the early morning of the 30th, produced isolated areas of severe weather, flooding, and lightning damage. Thunderstorms formed first over western Oklahoma.
Read the full account →Several days of reoccurring thunderstorm activity across northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas during late April resulted in widespread rainfall totals of three to eight inches across the area.
Read the full account →Additional heay rain fell across portions of southern Oklahoma, resulting in more flooding. Rainfall amounts averaged 2 to 4 inches from near Lawton and Walters in southwest Oklahoma to near Ardmore in south-central Oklahoma. Local amounts approached 6 inches.
Read the full account →A vorticity maxima, embedded within a broader closed upper low along the Great Divide, rotated out across the Southern High Plains on the 8th.
Read the full account →A vorticity maxima, embedded within a broader closed upper low along the Great Divide, rotated out across the Southern High Plains on the 8th.
Read the full account →Summary of events of July 19, 1997:Slow-moving nighttime thunderstorms containing torrential rain moved across northern and central Oklahoma. With the ground already at or near saturation across much of the area, these thunderstorms triggered widespread flash flooding,…
Read the full account →Summary of flooding events for October 4-5 1998:What started out as Oklahoma's worst-ever October tornado outbreak turned into a widespread and serious flash flood event when a steady train of supercell thunderstorms moving across northeast Oklahoma on the evening of October 4…
Read the full account →Summary of flooding events for October 4-5 1998:What started out as Oklahoma's worst-ever October tornado outbreak turned into a widespread and serious flash flood event when a steady train of supercell thunderstorms moving across northeast Oklahoma on the evening of October 4…
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