Maps: August 2015 Archives
This app from NOAA shows the tracks of all tropical depressions, storms, and hurricanes in its record books and allows you to search for storms that have passed within a certain radius of a particular place. The closest a tropical storm has come to Tulsa: On August 7, 1918, a tropical storm dropped down to a depression near Webbers Falls in Muskogee County. The storm had hit the Gulf Coast as a Cat 3 hurricane south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, 24 hours earlier. Three other tropical storms have passed through Oklahoma: On September 10, 1900, a tropical storm, leftovers of a Cat 4 hurricane, maintained 35-45 knot winds as it crossed the territory from Jefferson County to Kay County, passing through the western parts of modern day OKC. On June 28, 1902, the remnants of a Cat 1 hurricane that made landfall at Corpus Christi clipped the southeastern corner of the Choctaw Nation. Cat 5 Hurricane Carla, which had made landfall near Victoria, Texas, the day before, was still barely at tropical-storm strength when it crossed the Red River on September 12, 1961. 2010's Hermine was the last time the remnants of a named storm came through Oklahoma, but here it was only a tropical disturbance.
