Thunderstorm Wind, Okfuskee
- When
- June 28, 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.
Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 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 27, 8:27 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 8:27 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 927 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001 WELL DEFINED UPPER LOW ANALYZED SW OF STL AT 00Z THIS EVENING. THIS FEATURE HASN'T MOVED MUCH OVER THE PAST 12 HOURS AND IS EXPECTED TO WOBBLE OVER SRN/SERN MO OVERNIGHT. DIURNAL CONVECTION HAS JUST ABOUT GIVEN UP OVER SW MO/NW AR...BUT KEEPING AN EYE ON WEAK CONVECTION W OF TUL THAT HAS RECENTLY DEVELOP. SATELLITE AND A LOOK OUT THE WINDOW BEFORE SUNSET REVEALED A NARROW N-S BAND OF ACCAS ACROSS CNTRL OK...INDICATIVE OF MID-LEVEL INSTABILITY. WILL SEE CONVECTION BUBBLE IN THIS AREA THE REST OF THE EVENING...WITH BETTER DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED LATER TONIGHT AS SWLY LOW-LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS SOME. LATEST 00Z MESOETA APPEARS TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS SCENARIO. CURRENT 30 POPS IN ALL ZONES LOOKS GOOD TO ME. TEMPS APPEAR TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE AS WELL...SO NOT PLANNING AN UPDATE THIS EVENIN G. FCSTID = 18 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:48 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 28 to 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
- Waterspout in South Carolina, June 28, 2001
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5252868.