Oklahoma, 2003

Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 3, 2003

August 3, 2003 · NWS TSA · 12 events in 8 counties and zones

7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$35,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
12

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 Aug 2, 7:53 PM CST, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 7:53 PM CST, 5 hours 4 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA
853 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 2003

NOT MUCH GOING ON.  BOUNDARY WOULD APPEAR TO BE NEAR THE RED RIVER
BUT THERE IS NOT ANY ACTIVITY ALONG IT YET.  HAVE MY DOUBTS AS TO
WHETHER THERE EVER WILL BE...AT LEAST TONIGHT.  THE 18Z MESOETA DOES
NOT DEVELOP THE QPF IN THE SOUTH THAT THE 12Z RUN DID.  INSTEAD IT
CHOOSES TO HOLD OFF THE RAIN TIL TOMORROW AFTERNOON.  DO NOT THINK
IT WOULD BE WISE TO DROP POPS ALTOGETHER TONIGHT AND REALLY DO NOT
THINK CAN LIMIT THE POPS TO ANY ONE AREA LOOKING AT THE ACCAS OUT
THE WINDOW.  THUS...HAVE DECIDED TO BROADBRUSH 20 POPS EVERYWHERE
TONIGHT.  WITH ONLY A FEW CLOUDS AROUND HAVE ADJUSTED THE SKY GRIDS
SO IT WILL MAKE THE FORECAST SAY PARTLY CLOUDY EVEN IN THE SOUTHEAST.
UPDATE WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

ABBAS
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 9:35 AM CST, 15 hours 22 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-031100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1035 AM CDT SAT AUG 02 2003

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK

...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

A WEAKENING COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OUT OF SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
ALONG ANY RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES PRODUCED FROM THIS MORNINGS
STORMS...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40.

AS THE LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS TONIGHT...ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS
MAY ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL
ARKANSAS.  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY
STORMS THAT DEVELOP.

WARNING PROBABILITIES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN BE
FOUND IN THE OUTLOOK SECTION AT: WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA. GIVEN
PROBABILITIES REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED AT
YOUR LOCATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN FORECAST FOR
THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS DISTURBANCES MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE UPPER
RIDGE.

.SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER
ACTIVATION WILL MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST
CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT...
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 2, 7:21 PM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0821 PM CDT SAT AUG 02 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 AM    E COWETA                  OK   FLASH FLOOD
08/02/03   WAGONER                        BRIDGES ON SECONDARY ROADS
                                          WASHED OUT BETWEEN COWETA
                                          AND WAGONER. REPORTED BY
                                          S.O.

0535 AM    MUSKOGEE                  OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/02/03   MUSKOGEE                       TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY EM.

0430 AM    TULSA                     OK   FLASH FLOOD
08/02/03   TULSA                          SEVERE STREET FLOODING.
                                          REPORTED BY S.O.

0230 AM    CLEVELAND                 OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/02/03   PAWNEE                         SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN. WHOLE CITY
                                          WITHOUT POWER. REPORTED BY
                                          P.D.

0200 AM    2 E KAW CITY              OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/02/03   OSAGE                          TRAILOR OVERTURNED.
                                          REPORTED BY S.O.

0157 AM    7 NE OCHELATA             OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/02/03   WASHINGTON                     TIN BLOWN OFF BARN AND 3
                                          IN. DIAMETER TREE LIMBS
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0102 AM    5 WNW BARTLESVILLE        OK   0.75 IN HAIL
08/02/03   WASHINGTON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0935 PM    MANSFIELD                 AR   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0933 PM    CHARLESTON                AR   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   FRANKLIN                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0920 PM    3 ENE WISTER              OK   73 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   LE FLORE                       MEASURED BY OK MESONET.

0900 PM    VAN BUREN                 AR   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   CRAWFORD                       TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY P.D.

0900 PM    LEQUIRE                   OK   65 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   HASKELL                        REPORTED BY F.D.

0856 PM    POCOLA                    OK   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   LE FLORE                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0855 PM    FORT SMITH                AR   70 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0853 PM    SALLISAW                  OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   SEQUOYAH                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER.

0849 PM    ROLAND                    OK   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   SEQUOYAH                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0836 PM    GANS                      OK   70 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   SEQUOYAH                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0820 PM    5 SW QUINTON              OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   PITTSBURG                      TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC.

0815 PM    1 E BUNCH                 OK   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   ADAIR                          REPORTED BY EM.

0742 PM    TAHLEQUAH                 OK   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   CHEROKEE                       POWER LINES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER.

0741 PM    MUSKOGEE                  OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   MUSKOGEE                       10 IN. DIAMETER TREES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0715 PM    LOCUST GROVE              OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   MAYES                          TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          EM.

0712 PM    1 W HULBERT               OK   70 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   CHEROKEE                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0705 PM    WAGONER                   OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   WAGONER                        LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY P.D.

0650 PM    BIXBY                     OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   TULSA                          NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER.

0645 PM    HECTORVILLE               OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   OKMULGEE                       LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0645 PM    TULSA                     OK   63 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/01/03   TULSA                          121ST ST S AND PEORIA.
                                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0624 PM    TULSA                     OK   WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03   TULSA                          4.5 IN. DIAMETER TREES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY SPOTTERS.

0620 PM    COWETA                    OK   0.75 IN HAIL
08/01/03   WAGONER                        NUMEROUS TREES ALSO DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY P.D.

0611 PM    TULSA                     OK   0.75 IN HAIL
08/01/03   TULSA                          86TH ST N AND HWY 169.
                                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

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The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:59 UTC.

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Event by event

7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Osage

When
August 3, 12:57 AM CST
Where
Osage County, 6 mi W of Hominy
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
36.417, -96.500

Hail, Pawnee

When
August 3, 1:13 AM CST
Where
Pawnee County, Cleveland
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
36.317, -96.467

Thunderstorm Wind, Okmulgee

When
August 3, 1:50 AM CST
Where
Okmulgee County, Okmulgee
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.633, -95.967

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew several trees down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Osage

When
August 3, 2:00 AM CST
Where
Osage County, 2 mi E of Hominy
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$25,000
Reported by
NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates
36.417, -96.367

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew part of the roof and the porch of a mobile home off. An adjacent garage also lost its roof.

Hail, Creek

When
August 3, 2:11 AM CST
Where
Creek County, Drumright
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.983, -96.600

Thunderstorm Wind, Muskogee

When
August 3, 2:20 AM CST
Where
Muskogee County, Haskell
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.817, -95.667

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs and trees.

Thunderstorm Wind, Wagoner

When
August 3, 2:50 AM CST
Where
Wagoner County, Okay
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.867, -95.300

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

Hail, Creek

When
August 3, 3:00 AM CST
Where
Creek County, Depew
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
35.800, -96.500

Thunderstorm Wind, Okmulgee

When
August 3, 3:00 AM CST
Where
Okmulgee County, Beggs
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.733, -96.067

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew numerous trees down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Cherokee

When
August 3, 3:45 AM CST
Where
Cherokee County, 3 mi SSW of Cookson
Measured
70 kt (81 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$10,000
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.667, -94.983

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour destroyed a boat dock and blew down sixteen trees.

Hail, Pawnee

When
August 3, 3:47 AM CST
Where
Pawnee County, 3 mi E of Terlton
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
36.183, -96.433

Thunderstorm Wind, Sequoyah

When
August 3, 3:55 AM CST
Where
Sequoyah County, 2 mi NW of Box
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
PARK/FOREST SERVICE
Coordinates
35.600, -95.017

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees at Tenkiller State Park.

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.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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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: 5332473, 5332474, 5332476, 5333271, 5332475, 5333189, 5333265, 5333266, 5333267, 5333268, 5333269, 5333270.