Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 28 to 29, 2001

Name: Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 28 to 29, 2001
Start: 2001-06-28T22:04
End: 2001-06-29T08:29
Location: Oklahoma

June 28 to 29, 2001 · NWS TSA · 18 events in 6 counties and zones

12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $103,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 18

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 28, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
930 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2001

CONVECTION OVER SE OK THIS EVENING APPEARS TO BE DIURNALLY BASED AND
HAS BEEN GRADUALLY WEAKENING OVER THE PAST HOUR.
HOWEVER...LOW-LEVEL JET IS STARTING TO KICK IN OVER WRN/CNTRL OK
(AREA PROFILERS SHOWING 20-25KT SWLY 850-875 MB WINDS)...AND HAVE
NOTED AN INCREASE IS ELEVATED CONVECTION OVER CNTRL OK.  00Z MESOETA
SHOWS SOME IMPRESSIVE UPGLIDE ALONG 305K SURFACE OVER ERN OK AFTER
MIDNIGHT...AND SUGGESTS THAT CONVECTION WILL DEVELOP FARTHER E INTO
ENTRL/SE OK LATER TONIGHT.  A GENERAL SWD MOVEMENT IS
EXPECTED...WHICH WILL RESULT IN SOME TRAINING AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL.  WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN FOR SE OK.

WILL LEAVE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS SE OK...AND PLAN ON TRIMMING BACK POPS
ACROSS FAR NE OK AND NW AR.

UPDATE WILL BE OUT AROUND 945 PM.

FCSTID = 18

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

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:06 UTC.

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Event by event

12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Tulsa

When: June 28, 10:04 PM CST
Where: Tulsa County, Tulsa
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates: 36.150, -95.950

Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of 41st street and 129 east avenue.

Hail, Tulsa

When: June 28, 10:15 PM CST
Where: Tulsa County, Tulsa
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 36.150, -95.950

Golfball size hail was reported near the intersection of 61st street and countyline road.

Hail, Tulsa

When: June 28, 10:58 PM CST
Where: Tulsa County, Tulsa
Measured: 1.25 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 36.150, -95.950

Half dollar size hail was reported near the intersection of 71st street and Harvard.

Hail, Mayes

When: June 29, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Mayes County, Pryor
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.300, -95.317

Hail, Mayes

When: June 29, 12:30 AM CST
Where: Mayes County, 3 mi S of Locust Grove
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 36.150, -95.167

Thunderstorm Wind, Okfuskee

When: June 29, 12:50 AM CST
Where: Okfuskee County, Paden
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 35.500, -96.567

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

Thunderstorm Wind, Rogers

When: June 29, 1:45 AM CST
Where: Rogers County, Inola
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.150, -95.500

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power poles.

Hail, Pushmataha

When: June 29, 2:20 AM CST
Where: Pushmataha County, Cloudy
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.300, -95.283

Thunderstorm Wind, Pushmataha

When: June 29, 2:20 AM CST
Where: Pushmataha County, Cloudy
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.300, -95.283

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew a satellite dish off a house and also blew down large tree limbs.

Hail, Wagoner

When: June 29, 3:06 AM CST
Where: Wagoner County, 2 mi E of Coweta
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 35.950, -95.617

Hail, Pushmataha

When: June 29, 3:10 AM CST
Where: Pushmataha County, Dunbar
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.467, -95.550

Hail, Wagoner

When: June 29, 3:17 AM CST
Where: Wagoner County, 1 mi E of Coweta
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.950, -95.633

Flash Flood, Pushmataha

When: June 29, 3:30 AM CST
Where: Pushmataha County, Snow
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.416, -95.376 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy thunderstorm rains caused streams to overflow their banks around Snow.

Hail, Rogers

When: June 29, 3:45 AM CST
Where: Rogers County, Inola
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.150, -95.500

Hail, Rogers

When: June 29, 4:30 AM CST
Where: Rogers County, Inola
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.150, -95.500

Flash Flood, Wagoner

When: June 29, 4:45 AM CST to 6:00 AM CST
Where: Wagoner County, 4 mi E of Coweta
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.961, -95.521 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy thunderstorm rains caused Lone Star Road to be flooded.

Hail, Wagoner

When: June 29, 5:20 AM CST
Where: Wagoner County, 3 mi E of Coweta
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 35.950, -95.600

Flash Flood, Rogers

When: June 29, 7:00 AM CST to 8:29 AM CST
Where: Rogers County, Inola
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.372, -95.604 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rains caused flooding along Southwest Boulevard in Inola and Highway 88 north of Inola.Water rescues were performed on Highway 88 and water was in some homes in Inola.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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.
Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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

The same day elsewhere

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: 5252873, 5252874, 5252875, 5252876, 5252877, 5252878, 5252879, 5252880, 5252881, 5254821, 5254822, 5254824, 5254823, 5254825, 5254826, 5254827, 5254828, 5254829.