2 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 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 Aug 10, 9:55 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 1055 AM CDT SAT AUG 10 2002 15Z SURFACE ANALYSIS IS A CHALLENGE TO UNTANGLE...HOWEVER SATELLITE/RADAR TRENDS SHED SOME LIGHT ON PLACEMENT OF SMALL SCALE BOUNDARIES. WEST TEXAS MCS HAS PLACED A BOUNDARY ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA WITH ANOTHER BOUNDARY APPARENT ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA PER VIS SATELLITE IMAGERY. ONGOING CONVECTION IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA APPEARS TO BE ORIENTED ALONG THIS FEATURE. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HAS MADE A NOTICEABLE RETURN ACROSS THE AREA WITH 24HR DEW POINT RISES AOA 10 DEG F IN MANY LOCALES. 12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWS MID LEVEL TROUGH AXIS HANGING BACK INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA WITH APPARENT MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE VORTEX SITUATED ACROSS SW KANSAS ON TAIL END OF LARGE SCALE TROUGH AXIS. THIS FEATURE WILL PROGRESS SLOWLY EASTWARD TODAY AS RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF UPPER JET ALSO MOVES ACROSS THE AREA TO PROVIDE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SEVERE POTENTIAL QUESTIONABLE GIVEN VERY WEAK WINDS IN THE 800-600MB LEVEL...HOWEVER ADEQUATE SURFACE HEATING AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL YIELD ADEQUATE SURFACE BASED CAPE FOR POTENTIAL PULSE SEVERE WITH WET DOWNBURSTS BEING THE GREATEST THREAT. UPDATE WISE...WILL TREND POPS UP AREAWIDE WITH HIGHEST POPS ALONG SURFACE BOUNDARY WHERE CURRENT CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP. TEMPS WILL BE A LAST MINUTE ADJUSTMENT...BUT DON/T EXPECT TOO MUCH CHANGE. FORECAST ID= 07 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-111200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA / NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 2002 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH A GENERAL DECREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EXPECTED AFTER SUNSET. LOCATIONS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM FAYETTEVILLE TO MCALESTER WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST RAIN CHANCES...HOWEVER AN APPROACHING UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL HELP IGNITE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA BY LATE AFTERNOON. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE VERY ISOLATED DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. .DISCUSSION... NUMEROUS SURFACE BOUNDARIES ARE LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. A SMALL SCALE UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL ALSO APPROACH THE AREA BY LATE AFTERNOON PROVIDING ADDITIONAL UPPER SUPPORT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. WEAK WINDS ALOFT WILL LIMIT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...HOWEVER STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY COLLAPSING THUNDERSTORM. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS WITH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS POSSIBLE. RISK TABLE VALID THROUGH 1200 UTC SUNDAY AREA 1...ALL OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM PROBABILITY...70 SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...10 SIGNIFICANT SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...2 RISK AREAS DEFINE THE GREATEST SEVERE POTENTIAL. PROBABILITIES ARE IN PERCENT. SIGNIFICANT SEVERE IS DEFINED AS F1 OR GREATER WIND/TORNADO DAMAGE AND/OR GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck the roof of a duplex producing a fire. The fire damaged the roof and the attic of the building.
Lightning struck two homes near Glenpool. The lightning started fires at both homes causing considerable damage.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs near the intersection of 91st and Mingo.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, August 2002
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: 5312889, 5312886, 5312888, 5312887.