Summary of events for December 6 1998:A wave of low pressure developed along a strong cold front that was moving into unseasonably warm air to bring numerous showers and isolated thunderstorms to northeast Oklahoma during the day. Two of these small low-topped thunderstorms briefly became severe during the late morning and early afternoon.
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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.
The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
Summary of events for December 6 1998:A wave of low pressure developed along a strong cold front that was moving into unseasonably warm air to bring numerous showers and isolated thunderstorms to northeast Oklahoma during the day. Two of these small low-topped thunderstorms briefly became severe during the late morning and early afternoon. The primary threat from these two isolated storms was strong damaging winds.
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:35 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
In Chelsea, windows were blown out of six vehicles, and three trees were blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, December 1998
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: 5676422, 5676423.