Name: Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 14, 2001
Start: 2001-06-14T11:05
End: 2001-06-14T11:05
Location: Oklahoma

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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 forecasters said that day

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 Jun 14, 8:57 AM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 8:57 AM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
950 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

WILL BE UPDATING FORECAST TO MODIFY CLOUD FORECAST FOR TODAY...LOOKS
LIKE STRATUS WILL BE FAIRLY THICK THIS MORNING WITH SOME CLEARING
BEFORE STORMS MOVE IN. MAY ALSO NEED TO TRIM DOWN MAXES A LITTLE.
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS STILL LOOKS GOOD. BEST INSTABILITY AND
MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE LOOKS LIKE IT WILL OCCUR ALONG AND JUST
SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON BUT WILL STILL BE
VERY UNSTABLE ACROSS ENTIRE CWA EVEN WITH THE CLOUDS. VERTICAL WIND
PROFILE ALSO SUPPORTS SEVERE STORMS...BUT BACKING FLOW ABOVE 500MB
CAUSING TOP PARTS AND ANVILS OF STORMS TO FLOW BACK OVER PREVIOUS
CONVECTION. HOT SPOT MAY BE ACROSS FAR SRN OK AND NRN TX WHERE SKIES
ARE MORE CLEAR AND STORMS ARE BUILDING SOUTH FROM WESTERN OK INTO NW
TX BUT A LOT COULD CHANGE IF SKIES OVER ERN OK CLEAR SOONER THAN
EXPECTED.

LOOK AT NEW MESOETA SHOWS MORNING CONVECTION DISSIPATING AND NEW
STORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON ALONG FRONT AND CONTINUING OVERNIGHT
ACROSS THE ENTIRE. PATTERN OF CONVECTION AS FRONT SAGS SLOWLY SOUTH
INTO WSW-ESE ORIENTATION AND SLOW OVERALL MOVEMENT OF STORMS IMPLY
COULD SEE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT. MAY HAVE TO ISSUE FFA THIS
AFTERNOON. EXACT EVOLUTION LOOKS QUESTIONABLE ON THE MESOETA BUT
WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR CURRENT RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGES.

FCSTID = 26

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:05 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Osage

When: June 14, 11:05 AM CST
Where: Osage County, Pawhuska
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.667, -96.333

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.

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.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Oklahoma, June 2001

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: 5253139.