14 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 9, 8:35 PM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 935 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 UPDATED ZFP TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 708 VALID TIL 2 AM...ALSO REFINED POPS FOR OVERNIGHT. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS OKAY. LINE OF STORMS CONTINUES TO MARCH ACROSS SE KANSAS WITH LEADING EDGE ABOUT TO PUSH INTO OSAGE CO AS OF 920 PM. ACTIVITY SHOULD HOLD TOGETHER A WHILE LONGER WITH SOME THREAT FOR SEVERE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS ACROSS NE OKLAHOMA. RADAR/SAT EXTRAPOLATION PLACES LINE THROUGH TULSA AREA BY MIDNIGHT. STORMS SHOULD BECOME MORE ELEVATED AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON WITH BEST CHANCES SHIFTING INTO NW ARKANSAS... WHERE HIGHEST POPS WILL BE CARRIED AFTER 06Z. FORECAST ID = 14 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. SULLIVAN
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-101100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 740 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE PUSHING SOUTHEAST AHEAD OF THE FRONT...MOVING INTO FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BETWEEN 900 AND 1000 PM. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY BEGIN TO WEAKEN BY THIS TIME...A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MILES PER HOUR...PRIMARILY NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT. IN ADDITION...ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY AS THE COLD FRONT STALLS ACROSS THE AREA AND EVENTUALLY LOSES DEFINITION BY FRIDAY. ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING AS THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP OVER THE HIGH PLAINS MAY MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK BRINGING HOT AND DRY WEATHER. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...PRIMARILY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
OKZ054>074-100700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 850 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #708 UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 21 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE MUSKOGEE OKFUSKEE SEQUOYAH IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG CREEK DELAWARE MAYES NOWATA OKMULGEE OSAGE OTTAWA PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA WAGONER WASHINGTON IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA: HASKELL MCINTOSH PITTSBURG THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BARTLESVILLE...BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW... CLAREMORE...EUFAULA...JAY...MCALESTER...MIAMI...MUSKOGEE...NOWATA... OKEMAH...OKMULGEE...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...PRYOR...SALLISAW...SAND SPRINGS...STIGLER...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VINITA AND WAGONER.
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:10 UTC.
14 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew power poles and power lines down.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs and damaged a barn.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees and did some damage to a few structures. One home which was under construction collapsed and tin roofs were blown off two buildings at a lumber yard. Rain damaged contents of the buildings.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged the roof of an airport hangar. Numerous large tree limbs and trees were also blown down. The wind damage resulted in power outages. At one time power was out over about half of the city.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew large tree limbs down.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down. The tree fell on a house.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew several trees down.
A trained spotter measured an 83 mile an hour thunderstorm wind gust south of Pryor.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, July 2003
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: 5330441, 5330442, 5330443, 5330444, 5330445, 5330446, 5330447, 5330448, 5330449, 5330512, 5330513, 5378833, 5378834, 5378835.