1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 16, 2:54 AM CST, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 254 AM CST TUE JAN 16 2001 MAIN FOCUS THIS PACKAGE IS THE EVOLUTION OF APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL LOW. 00Z MODELS MOVE THE SYSTEM SLOWER TOWARD THE AREA COMPARED TO EARLIER RUNS WITH BRUNT OF FORCING MOVING ACROSS THE FA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. EXPECT NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA TO BE COLD ENOUGH FOR ALL SNOW. FARTHER SOUTH PREFER A VERTICAL TEMPERATURE PROFILE MOST LIKE THE NGM WHICH IS THE WARMEST...MAINLY DUE TO RECENT MODEL BIAS OF COOLING THE 850-700 MB TOO MUCH TOO EARLY DURING PREVIOUS WINTER WEATHER EVENTS. FARTHER SOUTH PRECIP MAY BEGIN AS RAIN ALONG THE I44 CORRIDOR THEN MAKE A TRANSITION TO MOSTLY SNOW HOWEVER CONSIDERING EXPECTED WARMER TEMPS ALOFT WILL MENTION SLEET AS WELL. WINTER STORM WARNING WILL BE ISSUED FOR TODAY/TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN ONE THIRD OF FA WITH AN ADVISORY FARTHER SOUTH. EXPECT MOST PRECIP TO END WEDNESDAY MORNING. BY THURSDAY...LATEST AVN/CANADIAN BRING REMNANTS OF UPPER LOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF AREA. MOST IF NOT ALL THE AREA SHOULD BE COLD ENOUGH FOR ALL SNOW...EXPECT FOR PERHAPS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. WILL CONTINUE WITH A SIMILAR EXTENDED FORECAST EXCEPT WILL SPEED UP FRIDAYS POPS AND BRING THEM INTO THE FA THURSDAY/THURSDAY NIGHT. IF THESE MODELS VERIFY COULD BE ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT WINTER WEATHER EVENT. OTHERWISE DONT EXPECT TO MAKE TOO MANY CHANGES IN THIS PART OF THE FORECAST AS TIME IS LIMITED. .OUN... OK...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY AND TONIGHT OKZ004>006-009>011-014>017-021 WINTER STORM WARNING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OKZ007-008-012-013-018 WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY AND TONIGHT OKZ022-023-033>038 WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OKZ019-020-024>-031 TX...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY AND TONIGHT TXZ083>085 JAMES
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-161800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 505 AM CST TUE JAN 16 2001 ...MORE SNOW FOR THE SOUTHERN PLAINS... A WINTER STORM WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WEST CENTRAL... NORTHWEST... AND NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THE WARNING AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ERICK... TO KINGFISHER... TO PERRY. THIS INCLUDES THE WOODWARD... CLINTON... WEATHERFORD... ENID... AND PONCA CITY AREAS. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ALSO HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... AND PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. THE ADVISORY AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM CROWELL... TO VERNON... TO LAWTON... TO SEMINOLE. THIS INCLUDES THE ALTUS... CHICKASHA... STILLWATER... SHAWNEE... AND OKLAHOMA CITY AREAS. THE APPROACHING WINTER STORM IS SLIGHTLY SLOWER THAN EARLIER FORECAST. SNOW WILL INCREASE THIS MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA... BUT PROBABLY WILL NOT START IN CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA UNTIL LATE MORNING AT THE EARLIEST... AND MORE LIKELY SOMETIME THIS AFTERNOON. THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD OF OKLAHOMA IS EXPECTED TO RECEIVE ALL SNOW. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY MORNING IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA... WITH 3 TO 6 INCHES FROM WEST CENTRAL TO NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... AND PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS... MAY SEE A MIX OF SNOW AND SLEET TODAY... WITH SOME RAIN ALSO POSSIBLE WHEN THE PRECIPITATION FIRST DEVELOPS. MOST OF THESE AREAS WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW TONIGHT. TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 1 TO 3 INCH RANGE IN THESE AREAS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AND IN THE WICHITA FALLS AREA... MOSTLY RAIN IS EXPECTED TODAY...BUT MAY MIX WITH SNOW AND SLEET THIS AFTERNOON... BUT NO FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO AN INCH OR SO ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY FROM NEAR WICHITA FALLS NORTHEAST TO NEAR THE ARBUCKLES IN SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS SHOULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGH THE DAY. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED EVERY 6 HOURS OR SO... UNTIL THE STORM IS NO LONGER A THREAT. 24/20
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck the ground near a group of 34 soldiers training at the East Range, sending 5 of them to the hospital for treatment.
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, January 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: 5229284.