5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 May 9, 8:50 PM CST, 17 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 950 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 UPDATING TO LOWER POPS SLIGHTLY IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA FOR TONIGHT. SURFACE BASED STORMS APPEAR UNLIKELY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44 OVERNIGHT WITH STRONG CAP IN PLACE BUT ELEVATED ACTIVITY MAY DEVELOP WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL JET SETTING UP. WILL KEEP SEVERE WORDING AS THE ELEVATED STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AND THE SURFACE BASED STORMS FURTHER NORTH HAVE A HIGHER PROBABILITY OF HAIL...WIND AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. UPDATE COMING SHORTLY. .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. PLATE
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-101100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHING THE WESTERN PLAINS WILL AID IN THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IN RESPONSE TO THIS DEVELOPMENT A DRY LINE WILL SHARPEN OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN TEXAS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD NORTHEAST INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD REACH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DURING THE MID TO LATE EVENING HOURS. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE DUE TO VERY HIGH INSTABILITY AND FAVORABLE WIND FIELDS. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR LONG LIVED SUPERCELLS...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES. 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...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING OUT INTO THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT UNTIL THE FRONT CLEARS THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON. DRY WEATHER WILL THEN PREVAIL FOR A FEW DAYS TILL THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPS BY TUESDAY. THERE WILL ALSO BE A CONTINUED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS VERY CLOSELY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0640 PM CDT FRI MAY 09 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0622 PM HALLETT OK 0.75 IN HAIL
05/09/03 PAWNEE
SPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0646 PM CDT FRI MAY 09 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM 2 NW OSAGE OK 0.88 IN HAIL
05/09/03 OSAGE
SPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0648 PM CDT FRI MAY 09 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM CLEVELAND OK 0.88 IN HAIL
05/09/03 PAWNEE
SPOKZ064>066-100115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 753 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING AREAS REMAINING IN TORNADO WATCH #320. NO AREAS REMAIN IN THE WATCH. IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDED 2 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: OKFUSKEE IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: OKMULGEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF OKEMAH AND OKMULGEE.
OKZ054>064-067>069-100130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 810 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 TORNADO WATCH #321 ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 14 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG CREEK DELAWARE MAYES NOWATA OSAGE OTTAWA PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA WAGONER WASHINGTON THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BARTLESVILLE...BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW... CLAREMORE...JAY...MIAMI...NOWATA...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...PRYOR...SAND SPRINGS...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VINITA AND WAGONER.
OKZ055-100330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 955 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM CDT... AT 955 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF OCHELATA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF OCHELATA...DEWEY AND BARTLESVILLE WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM THROUGH 1030 PM CDT.
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:07 UTC.
5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail between the size of quarter and the size of golfballs was reported by the emergency management in Bartlesville between 1007 pm cdt and 1014 pm cdt.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs at Westport.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs 5 miles north of Sand Springs.
A F1 tornado touched down just west of Depew and traveled to just northeast of Depew before dissipating. Although a few structures along the fringe of the path sustained minor damage, the damage was mostly characterized by many snapped and uprooted trees. This tornado was produced by the same storm that produced tornadoes in the northern Oklahoma City area at Stroud in Lincoln county as the storm moved to the northeast along I-44.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour caused large tree limbs and a few trees to be blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 2003Warnings in Oklahoma, May 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: 5358790, 5358792, 5358793, 5358791, 5358796, 5358795, 5358797, 5358798, 5358794, 5358799.