1 flash flood, 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 Oct 9, 2:15 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 315 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 LARGE AREA OF RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE FA THIS MORNING IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND A 25-35 KT LOW LEVEL JET. SOME EMBEDDED CONVECTION HAS RESULTED IN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL JUST WEST AND NORTH OF THE AREA. REFLECTIVITY OVER ERN OK HAS BEEN INDICATIVE OF MOSTLY MODERATE RAIN WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF THUNDER. PRECIP SHIELD MOVING A LITTLE FASTER THAN WHAT MODELS INDICATE...AND SO FAR DONT SEE MUCH ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OVER WRN OK. PLAN ON KEEPING HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES TODAY AND TAPER THEM OFF FROM WEST TO EAST THIS AFTERNOON. MAY LEAVE AN EARLY EVENING MENTION OF RAIN ACROSS FAR ERN ZONES...BUT WILL TRY TO GET PEEK AT 06Z ETA FIRST. AGREE WITH MOS THAT CLOUDS LOOK TO HANG TOUGH THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE MAY BE SOME PATCHY FOG TONIGHT,,,BUT CLOUD COVER WILL LIKELY LIMIT EXTENT OF FOG SO WILL LEAVE OUT OF ZONES FOR NOW. NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN COMES SATURDAY AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. MOISTURE DEPTH REMAINS A QUESTION WITH FROPA. WILL GO AHEAD AND KEEP POPS IN SATURDAY BUT TRIM BACK TO SLIGHT CHC. REST OF FORECAST WILL BE LEFT PRETTY MUCH AS IS...THOUGH LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO ASSESS RAIN CHANCES IN THE MONDAY/TUESDAY TIMEFRAME OF NEXT WEEK. PRELIM NUMBERS: TUL 73 61 81 63 / 50 10 10 10 FSM 70 62 82 61 / 80 10 10 10 MLC 74 63 82 63 / 40 10 10 10 BVO 73 58 80 61 / 50 10 10 10 FYV 67 57 78 59 / 80 10 10 10 BYV 68 57 77 59 / 80 10 10 10 MKO 73 60 81 61 / 70 10 10 10 MIO 71 58 79 60 / 80 10 10 10 F10 74 62 81 63 / 50 10 10 10 HHW 75 64 83 64 / 40 10 10 10 FORECAST ID= 23 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-101100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 610 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...A FEW MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY... A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING. FORECAST WIND PROFILES ARE SUPPORTIVE OF MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. THE PRIMARY LIMITING FACTOR WILL BE A LACK OF SIGNIFICANT INSTABILITY. CLOUD COVER IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY...ALTHOUGH A FEW BREAKS MAY OCCUR OVER PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR AS WELL...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN LIKELY ACROSS PARTS WESTERN ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS 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...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA SATURDAY...BRING A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. ANOTHER COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED BY TUESDAY...WITH ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT THAT TIME. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT...BUT EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
OKZ054-090915-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
313 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
OSAGE
AT 313 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF BIGHEART TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST
OF HOMINY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA...HOMINY...AVANT...
WYNONA...WOLCO...BARNSDALL...PERSHING...TALLANT...NELAGONEY...
OKESA...BIGHEART AND HULAH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.OKZ070-091115-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
514 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
MUSKOGEE
AT 514 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES EAST OF HASKELL TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BOYNTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED
BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...PUMPKIN CENTER...KEEFETON...MUSKOGEE...
OKTAHA...WAINWRIGHT...BOYNTON...SUMMIT...BRAGGS...JAMESVILLE...
TAFT...FORT GIBSON AND HASKELL.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.The Tulsa radar (KINX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy thunderstorm rains in excess of three inches caused water from a stream to overflow a road. The water apparently caused two cars to be swept off the road and into a ditch.
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, October 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: 5371266.