Thunderstorm Wind, Cimarron
- When
- June 4, 6:18 PM CST
- Where
- Cimarron County, 5 mi NW of Griggs
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.650, -102.180
The Boise City Sheriff's Office reported tree limbs and power poles down.
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 4, 1999
A very moist and unstable atmosphere along with the dryline moving east across the western Oklahoma panhandle combined to trigger severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and a brief tornado during the evening hours across the western and central Oklahoma panhandle.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 AMA wrote it up.
A very moist and unstable atmosphere along with the dryline moving east across the western Oklahoma panhandle combined to trigger severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and a brief tornado during the evening hours across the western and central Oklahoma panhandle.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Cimarron
- When
- June 4, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Cimarron County, Keyes
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 36.820, -102.250
Thunderstorm Wind, Texas
- When
- June 4, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Texas County, 9 mi NE of Eva
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.900, -101.780
Report of roofs blown off homes between Eva and Hough.
Tornado, Texas
- When
- June 4, 8:37 PM CST to 8:39 PM CST
- Where
- Texas County, 5 mi W of Hooker
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -101.300
Texas County Sheriff's Office and Hooker Police Department reported a brief tornado touchdown. The tornado track was estimated.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 4 to 5, 1999
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 4, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 4, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, June 4, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 1999
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 4, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Minnesota, June 4, 1999
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1999Warnings in Oklahoma, June 1999
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: 5698489, 5698490, 5698491, 5698492.