Thunderstorm Wind, Payne
- When
- November 29, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Payne County, 8 mi W of Cushing
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.980, -96.920
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, November 29, 1998
A small tornado touched down northwest of Cushing and remained on the ground for 2 miles damaging trees, storage buildings, and several rural residences. Five sheet metal storage buildings and barns were either damaged or destroyed.
Where it happened
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $21,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
A small tornado touched down northwest of Cushing and remained on the ground for 2 miles damaging trees, storage buildings, and several rural residences. Five sheet metal storage buildings and barns were either damaged or destroyed. Minor damage also occurred to a house and mobile home. The house had a porch, shudders, and roof shingles missing. The mobile home had many windows blown out. In addition to the tornado, straight-line winds caused minor damage to a rural home in southern Payne County 8 miles west of Cushing.
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:59 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Payne
- When
- November 29, 8:10 PM CST to 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Payne County, Cushing to 4 mi N of Cushing
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 36.030, -96.780
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Heavy Snow in California, November 29 to 30, 1998
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1998Warnings in Oklahoma, November 1998
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: 5678178, 5678177.