Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, March 24, 1996

Severe thunderstorms moved across eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon of March 24th. A metal storage building was destroyed in Tiawah when it was lifted 30 feet and dropped by strong thunderstorm winds. Strong thunderstorm winds also damaged a building at 4th and Main in the town of Henryetta. A roof was blown off a house and windows were blown out of a 2nd home 3 miles north of Morris, and a roof was blown off a mobile home at 9th and Jay in he town of Gore. Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and toppled tombstones at a cemetery on the south side of Nowata, and a barn was destroyed by strong thunderstorm winds 1 mile west of Sapulpa. Strong thunderstorm winds also destroyed a barn 2 miles south of Nowata and damaged a barn 2 miles east of Nowata.Thunderstorm winds gusted to 70 miles an hour in Pawnee and 6 miles west southwest of Indianola and to 60 miles an hour 2 miles west of Skiatook, in Bixby, at 61st South and Sheridan in the city of Tulsa, in Muskogee, 4 miles southwest of Pryor, in Copan, and in Nowata. Large hail also accompanied the storms. Hail up to quarter size covered the ground 5 miles west of Okemah, and dime to nickel size hail fell at numerous other locations in northeast Oklahoma.