All-time weather records — Lawton, OK

Record high
115.0°F
August 11, 1936
Record low
-11.0°F
January 18, 1930
Wettest day
7.86 in
May 12, 1929

Climate change signal in Lawton

0%

of Lawton's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (0 of 366 records since 2015).

0%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (0 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1910s
48
69
1920s
56
51
1930s
66
40
1940s
26
34
1950s
54
42
1960s
34
30
1970s
31
26
1980s
23
54
1990s
16
16
2000s
12
4
2010s
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2020s
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Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1913, the latest in 2003. Period of observation: 1912-2023.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 84.9°F — Jan 25, 1950 -11.0°F — Jan 18, 1930 3.81 in — Jan 31, 1923
February 95.0°F — Feb 24, 1918 -2.9°F — Feb 8, 1933 4.40 in — Feb 3, 2014
March 98.1°F — Mar 27, 1971 6.1°F — Mar 11, 1948 4.10 in — Mar 29, 2017
April 100.0°F — Apr 18, 1925 21.9°F — Apr 13, 1957 4.63 in — Apr 17, 1992
May 108.0°F — May 24, 2000 30.0°F — May 5, 1917 7.86 in — May 12, 1929
June 114.1°F — Jun 28, 1994 45.0°F — Jun 2, 1917 5.05 in — Jun 15, 1928
July 114.1°F — Jul 4, 1980 52.0°F — Jul 12, 1982 5.10 in — Jul 26, 2013
August 115.0°F — Aug 11, 1936 50.0°F — Aug 10, 1994 5.10 in — Aug 4, 1912
September 109.9°F — Sep 1, 1939 35.1°F — Sep 26, 1912 5.02 in — Sep 22, 1969
October 104.0°F — Oct 1, 1977 16.0°F — Oct 30, 1917 6.25 in — Oct 23, 1953
November 88.0°F — Nov 5, 1924 10.9°F — Nov 26, 1975 3.70 in — Nov 15, 2015
December 88.0°F — Dec 24, 1955 -8.0°F — Dec 22, 1989 4.45 in — Dec 27, 2018

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Lawton.