2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 23, 1:45 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 245 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002 COLD FRONT QUITE DIFFUSE AND DIFFICULT TO LOCATE...BUT MOST LIKELY EXTENDS ACROSS FAR NERN OK WITH SFC TROF/WIND SHIFT LINE FARTHER S INTO SE OK/WRN AR. HAVE SEEN WIDELY SCT CONVECTION DEVELOP ALONG THE FRINGES OF THE FORECAST AREA OVER THE PAST HOUR AND PLAN ON EXTENDING 20 POPS INTO THE EVENING FOR NW AR/SE OK. HIGH CAPES WILL EXIST THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON...ALTHO WEAK WIND PROFILES WILL PRECLUDE ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED STRONG/SEVERE WIND GUST OR TWO IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN OVER SRN PARTS OF FORECAST AREA ON WED...AND WILL CONTINUE 20 POPS FOR SE OK. SFC RIDGE WILL PERSIST OVER NE OK/NW AR...AND WILL STICK CLOSER TO THE COOLER MAV NUMBERS FOR HIGHS. WARMUP WILL COMMENCE BY THURSDAY AS MID-LEVEL HEIGHTS RISE...AND WEAK DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT DEVELOPS OVER THE AREA. MAV AND ETA MOS IN A LITTLE BETTER AGREEMENT...AND GENERALLY FOLLOWED A BLEND OF THE TWO. STRONGER NWLY UPPER FLOW EVOLVES N OF THE FORECAST AREA BY THU/FRI...WITH AVN SHOWING 2 WELL-DEFINED SHORTWAVES ROUNDING THE RIDGE AND MOVING INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS. THINK MAJORITY OF CONVECTION WILL REMAIN N OF THE AREA...ALTHO FAR NRN COUNTIES MAY BE BRUSHED BY SRN EDGE OF CONVECTION LATE THU NIGHT INTO FRI. WILL KEEP POPS OUT OF FORECAST FOR NOW AND LET LATER SHIFTS HAVE ANOTHER LOOK. EXTENDED MODELS IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT THAT SRN EDGE OF WLYS WILL REMAIN N OF THE FORECAST AREA AS A BROAD E-W RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE SRN HALF OF THE COUNTRY. ACCORDINGLY...EXPECT DRY WEATHER THRU THE EXTENDED...WITH A GRADUAL WARMING TREND. GFS SHOWS H85 TEMPS IN THE 22-24C RANGE AND DECENT SLWY LOW-LEVEL FLOW FOR THE WEEKEND...WHICH SHUD EQUATE TO AFTERNOON HIGHS NEAR THE CENTURY MARK IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS. GFS SUGGESTS NEXT CHC OF PRECIP WILL BE JUST BEYOND DAY 7 AS WEAK UPPER LOW APPROACHES FROM THE W. PRELIM NUMBERS... TUL 70 91 70 96 / 10 10 5 10 FSM 70 92 69 96 / 20 10 5 10 MLC 70 91 68 95 / 20 10 5 10 BVO 65 91 64 96 / 10 10 5 10 FYV 63 88 63 91 / 10 10 5 10 BYV 62 85 62 91 / 10 10 5 10 MIO 66 89 65 92 / 10 10 5 10 MKO 69 91 68 94 / 10 10 5 10 F10 70 91 69 95 / 10 10 5 10 HHW 71 91 69 95 / 20 20 10 10 FORECAST ID = 18 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-241200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 115 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002 ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... AT MIDDAY...A DIFFUSE COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED NEAR A BENTONVILLE TO MUSKOGEE TO OKEMAH LINE. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO PRESENT OVER THE AREA. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH DEW POINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 70S AND TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE 90S. DUE TO THE UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND THE PRESENCE OF THE BOUNDARIES...WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY FORM THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH...MAINLY SOUTH OF THE FRONT. WITH THE LACK OF SIGNIFICANT UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT AND THE WEAK NATURE OF THE BOUNDARIES...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS SOUTH OF A BENTONVILLE TO MUSKOGEE TO OKEMAH LINE. .DISCUSSION... WEAK WIND SHEAR WILL LIMIT THE POTENTIAL FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER TODAY. HOWEVER...AFTERNOON LIFTED INDEX VALUES BETWEEN -6 AND -8 COULD LEAD TO A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR AND SOUTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON. RISK TABLE VALID THROUGH 1200 UTC WEDNESDAY AREA 1...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A BENTONVILLE TO MUSKOGEE TO OKEMAH LINE. THUNDERSTORM PROBABILITY...60 SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...40 SIGNIFICANT SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...10 RISK AREAS DEFINE THE GREATEST RISK. PROBABILITIES ARE IN PERCENT. SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER IS DEFINED AS F1 OR GREATER WIND/TORNADO DAMAGE AND/OR GOLFBALL SIZE OR LARGER HAIL. RELATED GRAPHICAL INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:46 UTC.
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines. The wind also blew out the front window of a business.
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, July 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: 5310942, 5310943, 5310944.