2 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 7:30 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 830 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001 OUTFLOW BOUNDARY/TSTMS CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE NORTHEAST INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. BOUNDARY MOVING ALONG INSTABILITY AXIS WITH LIS CURRENTLY AROUND -6 OVER FAR NE OK/NW ARK. EXPECT BOUNDARY TO PUSH NORTHEAST THROUGH REMAINDER OF NW ARK DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WITH TSTM COVERAGE DECREASING. WILL CONTINUE WITH LOW CHANCE POPS OVERNIGHT...MAINLY OVER SOUTHERN ZONES...NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. FCSTID = 12 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
453 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM 2 N TERLTON OK WIND DAMAGE
08/25/01 PAWNEE LARGE LIMBS AND SOME
SMALL TREES BLOWN DOWN
0829 PM MOUNDS OK .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/01 CREEK
0947 PM GROVE OK 1 INCH HAIL
08/25/01 DELAWARE
1030 PM MUSKOGEE OK .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/01 MUSKOGEE
1100 PM HULBERT OK WIND DAMAGE
08/25/01 CHEROKEE SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS
BLOWN DOWN
1133 PM WELLING OK WIND DAMAGE
08/25/01 CHEROKEE SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS
BLOWN DOWN. SATELLITE
DISH BLOWN OFF HOUSEThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a house near Red Oak. The resulting fire destroyed the home.
Lightning struck a house near Okemah. The resulting fire was restricted to the attic of the home, but smoke and water damaged most of the structure.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, August 2001
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: 5265090, 5265091.