High non-thunderstorm winds along with severe thunderstorms containing large hail and damaging winds occurred across the Oklahoma panhandle during the early evening hours.
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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 episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
High non-thunderstorm winds along with severe thunderstorms containing large hail and damaging winds occurred across the Oklahoma panhandle during the early evening hours.
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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 14, 3:05 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 305 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 SFC LOW DEVELOPING ACROSS THE ERN OK PNHDL...WITH SFC TROF EXTENDING SOUTH TO NEAR KPVW. WINDS BEHIND TROF ARE LIGHT NLY. SLY FLOW CONTINUE ACROSS ERN ZONES. STRONG JET DIVING INTO ROCKIES WILL RESULT IN NEXT UPR LOW RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AS IT MOVES SE TO SOUTH CNTL KS BY 12Z THU. AFORMENTIONED SFC LOW WILL ALSO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY OVERNIGHT AS IT MOVES E INTO SE KS BY 12Z THU. VERY STRONG SFC WINDS WILL BE THE RESULT...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MORNING THU...AND ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NE ZONES. LAKE CAUTION CRITERIA INCLUDED IN ALL ZONES FOR TONIGHT AND THU. HAVE OPTED TO ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY FOR NE ZONES FOR THU. MID SHIFT MAY NEED TO ADJUST ADVISORY PER LATER PROGS. PCPN CHCS ARE DWINDLING AS MOISTURE IS SCARCE AND MAIN DYNAMICS EXPECTED TO STAY N OF THE FA. WILL RETAIN SLGT CHC POPS ACROSS THE NE THIRD...AND REMOVE POPS ELSEWHERE. WILL RETAIN CURRENT TEMP FCST OF UPPER 40S TO LOW 50S ACROSS THE AREA FOR THU...SLIGHTLY UNDER-CUTTING GUIDANCE. WIND CHILL VALUES WILL BE SIGNIFICANT. NEXT SYSTEM EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND CONTINUES TO HAVE A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY. ALL MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT SAT WILL BE WET...OR PERHAPS WHITE IN THE NORTH. LATEST AVN RUNS WEAKENS AND SPEEDS SYSTEM UP...SO THAT CURRENT FCST MAY BE TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH POPS ON SUNDAY. DUE TO UNCERTAINTY...WILL LEAVE SUNDAY FCST AS IS. WILL LOWER DAYTIME TEMPS A BIT SAT AS SYSTEM LOOKS COLDER THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. SYSTEM MAY BEGIN TO AFFECT THE PNHDLS BY FRI NITE...ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST...SO HAVE ASSIGNED POPS ACCORDINGLY. SFC LOW WITH THIS SYSTEM PROGGED TO GO WELL SOUTH OF FA...SO SAT MAY BE MORE OF A COLD RAIN EVENT...POSSIBLY CHANGING TO A WET SNOW EVENT...WITH TSTMS NOT AS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY NORTH. MON THRU WED LOOK DRY AND WARMER. SOME NUMBERS TO PONDER... DHT 30/48/22/50 --0 AMA 33/51/25/52 --0 .TX...WIND ADVISORY TXZ003<005-009-010. .OK...WIND ADVISORY OKZ002-003. SD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 high wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Reported at the Boise City Mesonet which is located three miles south southeast of Boise City.Wind gust of fifty-three knots was reported at the Goodwell Mesonet site which is located two miles east of Goodwell.
Reported at the Goodwell Mesonet site which is located two miles east of Goodwell. The time was estimated.
Power poles and street stop signs were blown down.
Four power poles were blown down and pieces of metal were found in fence rows.
Tree limbs were reported down and a large fiberglass tank was seen rolling down the road.
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, March 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: 5235961, 5235962, 5235963, 5235964, 5235965, 5235966, 5235967.