A cold front in the East will bring showers and thunderstorms and much cooler temperatures from the Northeast into the Southeast. The Southwest, centered around New Mexico, will continue to see showers and thunderstorms, where there maybe isolated flash flooding. Tropical moisture will bring a multi-day period of thunderstorms and locally heavy rainfall across the Southwest beginning Thursday. Read More >
| SPC ID # |
Date | Time (CST) |
Path Length (miles) |
Path Width (yards) |
F-Scale | Killed | Injured | County | Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/29/1887 | 2000 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Fort Sill | ||||
| 22-4 | 04/08/1922 | 0715 | n | 3 | 18 | Comanche | W side Lawton | ||
| 06/20/1948 | 1730 | 20 | 0 | 0 | Tillman/ Comanche | 8 SW Chattanooga - near Lawton | |||
| 04/30/1949 | 1500 | 30 | 250 | 0 | 4 | Comanche/ Grady | NE part of Lawton - southern Grady county | ||
| 52-11 | 05/23/1952 | 0445 | 0.3 | 150 | F2 | 0 | 1 | Comanche | Lawton |
| 52-12 | 05/23/1952 | 0500 | n/a | 200 | F2 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Fort Sill |
| 53-11 | 03/29/1953 | 1925 | 1.0 | 100 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Lawton Municipal Airport |
| 54-16 | 04/29/1954 | 2145 | n/a | 20 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Comanche/ Stephens | Near Lawton - near Marlow |
| 57-74 | 05/24/1957 | 1730 | 22 | 880 | F4 | 4 | 5 | Cotton/ Comanche | Near Ahpeatone - Just S of Lawton |
| 61-75 | 06/07/1961 | 0520 | n/a | n/a | F? | 0 | 0 | Comanche | 8 NW Lawton |
| 62-8 | 05/20/1962 | 2010 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | 10 SW Lawton |
| 62-15 | 05/24/1962 | 1815 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | ~10 SW of Lawton |
| 64-15 | 04/23/1964 | 1650 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | 4 E Lawton |
| 68-17 | 05/02/1968 | 1930 | 0.1 | 15 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Lawton (2700 block Fort Sill Blvd) |
| 68-42 | 05/29/1968 | 2125 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | 7 SW Lawton - Just SE of Lawton |
| 68-50 | 06/15/1968 | 1720 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Lawton (near front gate of Fort Sill) |
| 73-26 | 05/24/1973 | 1600 | 0.4 | 33 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Near Lawton |
| 78-21 | 09/05/1978 | 1700 | 0.5 | 20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Fort Sill |
| 79-11 | 04/10/1979 | 1705 | 5 | 170 | F3 | 3 | 100 | Comanche | Lawton (.5 N Airport - ~2 E Lawton) |
| 80-23 | 09/08/1980 | 1455 | 3 | 50 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | 6 E- 7 ENE Fort Sill Base Tower |
| 82-55 | 05/16/1982 | 2055 | 4 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | 2 W Lawton - W range of Fort Sill |
| 82-58 | 05/20/1982 | 1933 | n/a | n/a | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | just S of Fort Sill |
| 82-59 | 05/20/1982 | 1937 | 0.5 | 50 | F1 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Fort Sill |
| 83-43 | 05/13/1983 | 2225 | 0.1 | 50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | Lawton (near Wolf Creek) |
| 04/17/2013 | 1750 | EF0 | 0 | 0 | Comanche | 7 W Lawton (far west Lawton) |
Records taken from the Storm Prediction Center archive data, "Storm Data", and data from the National Weather Service office in Norman. Data modified as described in NOAA Tech Memo NWS SR-209 (Speheger, D., 2001: "Corrections to the Historic Tornado Database").
Historic data, especially before 1950, are likely incomplete.
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