Oklahoma, 2003

Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 11 to 12, 2003

June 11 to 12, 2003 · NWS TSA · 19 events in 15 counties and zones

17 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

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  • 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
$106,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
19

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 Jun 11, 9:50 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:50 PM CST, 44 minutes before
MESOSCALE FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA
1050 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

LINEAR CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WILL CONTINUE INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA WITH
WARNING OPERATIONS LIKELY TO COMMENCE GIVEN PROGGED INSTABILITY
AWAITING APPROACHING LINE.  THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY
THE ENTIRE LINE.  GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME WINDS WILL BE
ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WHERE DOWNDRAFT CAPE AND LOW LEVEL LAPSE
RATES ARE CURRENTLY MAXIMIZED.  STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET AND DEEP
MOISTURE FIELDS OVER THE ENTIRE AREA SUGGEST CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WILL
LIKELY TRAVERSE THE ENTIRE CWA.

FORECAST ID= 07

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 9:30 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-121100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1030 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK

...WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT...

A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AT 1030 PM. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE
MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR WILL BE
LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AND ONE OR TWO STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL
UP TO PENNY SIZE.

STRONG INSTABILITY REMAINS AHEAD OF THE LINE SO THE STORMS SHOULD
REMAIN SEVERE AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. INSTABILITY IS SLIGHTLY
WEAKER IN FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SO THE
STORMS MAY START TO WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE INTO THAT AREA BUT DAMAGING
WINDS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE.

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
UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL PERSIST THROUGH THIS PERIOD WITH A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY.

.SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED OVERNIGHT.

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:21 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
ARZ001-010-019>020-029-OKZ049-053>076-120800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1021 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
#524 UNTIL 300 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS:

BENTON                CRAWFORD              WASHINGTON

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS:

FRANKLIN              SEBASTIAN

IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 25 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:

CHOCTAW               HASKELL               LATIMER
LE FLORE              MCINTOSH              PITTSBURG
PUSHMATAHA

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ANTLERS...BARTLESVILLE...BENTONVILLE...
BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW...CEDARVILLE...CLAREMORE...CLAYTON...
EUFAULA...FAYETTEVILLE...FORT SMITH...HUGO...JAY...MCALESTER...
MIAMI...MOUNTAINBURG...MUSKOGEE...NATURAL DAM...NOWATA...OKEMAH...
OKMULGEE...OZARK...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...POTEAU...PRYOR...ROGERS...
SALLISAW...SAND SPRINGS...SILOAM SPRINGS...SPRINGDALE...STIGLER...
STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VAN BUREN...VINITA...WAGONER AND
WILBURTON.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:27 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
OKZ059-064-065-120430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1027 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES:

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     PAWNEE AND CREEK

IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
     OKFUSKEE

AT 1027 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR BISON IN GARFIELD
COUNTY TO LUTHER IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE ENTERING CREEK...PAWNEE AND
OKFUSKEE COUNTIES BY 1130 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF
PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE ADVISORY IS
UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:35 UTC.

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Event by event

17 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Okfuskee

When
June 11, 10:34 PM CST
Where
Okfuskee County, Castle
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.467, -96.383

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

Hail, Pawnee

When
June 11, 11:05 PM CST
Where
Pawnee County, Terlton
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
36.183, -96.483

Thunderstorm Wind, Okmulgee

When
June 11, 11:08 PM CST
Where
Okmulgee County, Beggs
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates
35.733, -96.067

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

Thunderstorm Wind, McIntosh

When
June 11, 11:11 PM CST
Where
McIntosh County, 4 mi N of Hanna
Measured
70 kt (81 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$10,000
Reported by
GOVT OFFICIAL
Coordinates
35.250, -95.883

Thunderstorm winds esimated at 80 miles an hour destroyed a barn.

Thunderstorm Wind, McIntosh

When
June 11, 11:13 PM CST
Where
McIntosh County, Hanna
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$5,000
Reported by
GOVT OFFICIAL
Coordinates
35.200, -95.883

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew some shingles off a school's gym.

Thunderstorm Wind, Choctaw

When
June 11, 11:13 PM CST
Where
Choctaw County, Soper
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$3,000
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
34.033, -95.700

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew the cover off a well.

Thunderstorm Wind, Pittsburg

When
June 11, 11:15 PM CST
Where
Pittsburg County, Mc Alester
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
34.933, -95.767

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. The tree blocked a road.

Thunderstorm Wind, Pushmataha

When
June 11, 11:44 PM CST
Where
Pushmataha County, Rattan
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$25,000
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
34.200, -95.417

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged the roofs of a few homes and blew down trees.

Thunderstorm Wind, Latimer

When
June 11, 11:44 PM CST
Where
Latimer County, Yanush
Measured
57 kt (66 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
34.700, -95.317

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.

Thunderstorm Wind, Latimer

When
June 11, 11:45 PM CST
Where
Latimer County, 5 mi W of Wilburton
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$5,000
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
34.917, -95.400

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew sheet metal off the roof of a barn near a rural residence west of Wilburton.

Thunderstorm Wind, Haskell

When
June 11, 11:49 PM CST
Where
Haskell County, Stigler
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
35.250, -95.133

Thunderstorm Wind, McIntosh

When
June 11, 11:49 PM CST
Where
McIntosh County, Checotah
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.433, -95.517

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

Thunderstorm Wind, Tulsa

When
June 11, 11:50 PM CST
Where
Tulsa County, Tulsa
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates
36.150, -95.950

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew large tree limbs down near the intersection of Yale and Admiral.

Thunderstorm Wind, Muskogee

When
June 11, 11:54 PM 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 several small trees and one large tree down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Le Flore

When
June 12, 12:20 AM CST
Where
Le Flore County, Wister
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
34.967, -94.717

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

Thunderstorm Wind, Sequoyah

When
June 12, 12:25 AM CST
Where
Sequoyah County, Gans
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.400, -94.700

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees. A few of the trees blocked a road.

Thunderstorm Wind, Le Flore

When
June 12, 12:33 AM CST
Where
Le Flore County, Pocola
Measured
61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.233, -94.483

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

Thunderstorm Wind, Craig

When
June 12, 1:00 AM CST
Where
Craig County, Vinita
Measured
70 kt (81 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$58,000
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
36.650, -95.150

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour caused considerable damage in Vinita. A mobile home was pushed off its foundation and several metal garages were damaged. Trees were also blown down. A few of the trees fell on homes causing roof and other structural damage.

Hail, Ottawa

When
June 12, 1:43 AM CST
Where
Ottawa County, Wyandotte
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
36.800, -94.733

What these are

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.
Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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: 5367254, 5367255, 5367256, 5367330, 5367331, 5367333, 5367332, 5367334, 5367335, 5367345, 5367336, 5367338, 5367337, 5367339, 5367340, 5367341, 5367342, 5367343, 5367344.