BUFFALO, OK. (KOCO)—- KOCO First Alert Field Meteorologist Michael Armstrong captured Oklahoma’s first tornado of 2018 on camera near Buffalo, Oklahoma.
A tornado warning was in effect for the area until 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.
This is quite unusual, the previous record for the latest tornado in Oklahoma was April 26, 1962.
Other Oklahoma tornado statistics from the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma:
Oklahoma averages 56 tornadoes a year
The only years with zero tornadoes in the month of April are 1987, 1988, and now 2018.
On average, Oklahoma sees 21% of it’s annual tornadoes in the month of April and this year, not one tornado in April.
Now the month of May can be quite active. The state on average receives 41% of it’s annual tornadoes in the month of May.
The most tornadoes recorded in a single year for the state is 145 tornadoes in 1999.
by WHSV (2018, May 1)
