High Wind, McClain
- When
- May 23, 12:10 AM CST to 12:20 AM CST
- Where
- McClain forecast zone
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph)
- Coordinates
- 35.009, -97.444 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Oklahoma, May 23, 1996
1 mph at 0020 CST.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.
The Oklahoma Mesonet site located 6 miles south-southwest of Washington in McClain County measured the following severe five-minute wind gusts: 62.8 mph at 0010 CST, 67.8 mph at 0015 CST, and 64.1 mph at 0020 CST.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 23 to 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in California, May 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Tornado in Wyoming, May 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Heat in Alabama, May 23, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, May 23, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, May 23 to 31, 1996
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, May 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5563443.