Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001

Name: Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
Start: 2001-06-29T23:15
End: 2001-06-30T03:38
Location: Oklahoma

June 29 to 30, 2001 · NWS TSA · 24 events in 7 counties and zones

14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 4 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: $122,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 24

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 29, 8:30 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 8:30 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
930 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

A FEW SHOWERS WHERE NOTED OVER NW AR AND FAR SE OK...OTHERWISE ALL
IS QUIET ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA SO FAR THIS EVENING.

GOOD WAA PATTERN NOTED ACROSS ERN OK ON H85 ANALYSIS...ALONG WITH INFLUX
OF +14-15C DEWPOINTS.  00Z MESOETA STILL SUGGESTS THAT STRONG
ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...WHICH IS BEST
DEPICTED BY UPGLIDE ALONG 305K SURFACE.  ZONE OF BEST LIFT IS A BIT
FARTHER W THAN 18Z MESOETA...ALTHO PRESSURE CONDENSATION DEFICITS
ARE RATHER LOW IN ERN OK...SO NOT MUCH LIFT WILL NEEDED FOR
DEVELOPMENT.

1 TO 3 HOUR FFG VALUES ACROSS THE BULK OF ERN OK RUNNING AROUND 1.5
TO 2.5 RESPECTIVELY...WITH MUCH HIGHER VALUES IN NW AR AND FAR ERN
OK.  GIVEN THE EXCESSIVE RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS...CURRENT FLASH
FLOOD WATCH LOOKS GOOD.

WILL UPDATE TO ADJUST TEMPORAL WORDING...AND MAY TWEAK POPS IN A FEW
LOCATIONS.

FCSTID = 18

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING FOR
ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053...OKZ060>062...OKZ064>068...OKZ070>076.

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:12 UTC.

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Event by event

14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Muskogee

When: June 29, 11:15 PM CST
Where: Muskogee County, 3 mi W of Warner
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 35.500, -95.350

Hail, McIntosh

When: June 29, 11:15 PM CST
Where: McIntosh County, 10 mi E of Checotah
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 35.433, -95.333

Hail, Muskogee

When: June 29, 11:40 PM CST
Where: Muskogee County, Taft
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.767, -95.533

Thunderstorm Wind, Haskell

When: June 29, 11:55 PM CST
Where: Haskell County, 3 mi NE of Keota
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 35.283, -94.883

Hail, Pawnee

When: June 30, 12:15 AM CST
Where: Pawnee County, Pawnee
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.333, -96.800

Thunderstorm Wind, Le Flore

When: June 30, 12:27 AM CST
Where: Le Flore County, Cowlington
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.300, -94.783

Thunderstorm Wind, Le Flore

When: June 30, 12:27 AM CST
Where: Le Flore County, Spiro
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.233, -94.633

Thunderstorm Wind, Le Flore

When: June 30, 12:27 AM CST
Where: Le Flore County, Pocola
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.233, -94.483

Hail, McIntosh

When: June 30, 12:30 AM CST
Where: McIntosh County, Checotah
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 35.433, -95.517

Hail, Pawnee

When: June 30, 12:30 AM CST
Where: Pawnee County, 5 mi W of Pawnee
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 36.333, -96.883

Hail, Le Flore

When: June 30, 12:54 AM CST
Where: Le Flore County, Rock Is
Measured: 1.25 in hail
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 35.183, -94.483

Half dollar size hail broke the windows out of the west side of a home.

Thunderstorm Wind, Le Flore

When: June 30, 12:55 AM CST
Where: Le Flore County, Rock Is
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 35.183, -94.483

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew the roof off a mobile home and partially destroyed a barn. Six other homes had siding blown off.

Hail, Le Flore

When: June 30, 12:57 AM CST
Where: Le Flore County, Pocola
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 35.233, -94.483

Hail, McIntosh

When: June 30, 1:00 AM CST
Where: McIntosh County, 5 mi N of Eufaula
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.350, -95.583

Flash Flood, Haskell

When: June 30, 1:00 AM CST
Where: Haskell County, 3 mi NE of Keota
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 35.225, -95.117 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Four to six inches of rain caused several roads and low water bridges to be washed out.

Hail, Pittsburg

When: June 30, 1:20 AM CST
Where: Pittsburg County, 2 mi NE of Canadian
Measured: 2.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 35.183, -95.617

Flash Flood, McIntosh

When: June 30, 1:42 AM CST
Where: McIntosh County, 2 mi S of Eufaula
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 35.374, -95.667 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to flow over the road.

Flash Flood, McIntosh

When: June 30, 1:45 AM CST
Where: McIntosh County, Eufaula
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.374, -95.667 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy thunderstorm rains caused street flooding.

Hail, Pushmataha

When: June 30, 1:50 AM CST
Where: Pushmataha County, 8 mi W of Eubanks
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.417, -95.717

Thunderstorm Wind, Pushmataha

When: June 30, 1:50 AM CST
Where: Pushmataha County, 8 mi W of Eubanks
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.417, -95.717

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

Hail, Pittsburg

When: June 30, 1:54 AM CST
Where: Pittsburg County, 3 mi N of Canadian
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 35.217, -95.650

Flash Flood, Pittsburg

When: June 30, 2:15 AM CST
Where: Pittsburg County, 2 mi E of Canadian
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.924, -95.748 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy thunderstorm rains washed out a bridge near Lake Eufaula.

Hail, Pittsburg

When: June 30, 2:46 AM CST
Where: Pittsburg County, 8 mi NE of Mc Alester
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 35.017, -95.667

Hail, Pittsburg

When: June 30, 3:38 AM CST
Where: Pittsburg County, Bache
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 34.883, -95.633

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: 5254830, 5254831, 5254832, 5254833, 5254834, 5254835, 5254836, 5254837, 5254838, 5254839, 5254840, 5254844, 5254841, 5254842, 5254843, 5254845, 5254846, 5254847, 5254891, 5254892, 5254848, 5254890, 5254893, 5254894.