14 hail, 1 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 Nov 18, 3:25 AM CST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 325 AM CST TUE NOV 18 2003 SFC LOW CURRENTLY LOCATED NORTH OKC WITH COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM MEDFORD...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR ALTUS. MAIN CONVECTIVE COMPLEX HAS SHIFTED EAST THIS MORNING. STILL EXPECT A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE FOR LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS BEHIND THE FRONT TODAY...AS 500 MB TROUGH AXIS MOVES THROUGH. BEST CHANCES WILL BE ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. COLD FRONT SHOULD PUSH SOUTHEAST OF FA BY MID AFTERNOON WITH SKIES CLEARING FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST THIS EVENING. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL BE SOMEWHAT PROBLEMATIC NEXT COUPLE OF NIGHTS...MAINLY DUE TO UNCERTAINTY IN DWPT DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE RECENT RAINFALL. SLIGHT WARM UP EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY AS SURFACE RIDGE BEGINS TO SHIFT SOUTHEAST OF AREA. WILL LIKELY SEE SOME PATCHY FOG DEVELOP WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH LIGHT WINDS/CLEAR SKIES/SATURATED GROUND. NO MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. DID BUMP UP TEMPERATURES FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AHEAD OF NEXT STRONG COLD FRONT...WHICH IS EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY. THIS WILL ALSO BE OUR NEXT CHANCE FOR SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION. PRELIM NUMBERS: TUL 64 41 66 45 / 50 10 0 5 FSM 70 42 65 42 / 60 30 0 5 MLC 66 40 66 43 / 50 10 0 5 BVO 62 36 64 38 / 40 10 0 5 FYV 64 41 60 39 / 60 30 0 5 BYV 64 40 61 43 / 60 30 0 5 MKO 64 41 66 42 / 60 10 0 5 MIO 61 39 62 42 / 60 10 0 5 F10 64 40 66 43 / 50 10 0 5 HHW 69 43 66 45 / 50 10 0 5 FORECAST ID= 12 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-191200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 600 AM CST TUE NOV 18 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING...AND ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THE FRONT...HOWEVER THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MINIMAL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY AS A STRONG UPPER TROUGH MOVES INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. 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.
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:48 UTC.
14 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Baseball hail was reported at 31st and Harvard and then again at 21st and Harvard. The hail broke windows and damaged numerous roofs of buildings and cars. Damage is estimated; pending supplemental insurance reports.
Numerous pieces of hail up to penny size covered the ground just south of Catoosa. The hail was several inches deep in places.
Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of 11th Street and 193rd East Avenue or County Line Road.
Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of 11th Street and 193rd East Avenue or County Line Road.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a few trees 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 historyWarnings in Oklahoma, November 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: 5328079, 5328080, 5328086, 5328081, 5328082, 5328083, 5328084, 5328085, 5328195, 5328191, 5328190, 5328194, 5328192, 5328193, 5328196.