2 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 Sep 26, 5:15 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 615 PM CDT FRI SEP 26 2003 WILL UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS OVER NE OK/NW AR FOR THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO BACKBUILD ALONG COLD FRONT...AND INCREASE IN INTENSITY WITH SURFACE-BASED CAPES RUNNING AROUND 1500-2000 J/KG. UPDATE WILL BE OUT ASAP. FORECAST ID = 18 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-271100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT FRI SEP 26 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BUILD ALONG THE FRONT AS IT MOVES INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. AVAILABLE MOISTURE AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL PRODUCE A CHANCE FOR SOME OF THE STORMS TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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 DRY WEATHER WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY. THE NEXT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION WILL BE ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. HOWEVER...EMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
OKZ054-270100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
717 PM CDT FRI SEP 26 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
OSAGE
AT 717 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
PAWHUSKA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA...AVANT...WYNONA...WOLCO...
BARNSDALL...PERSHING...TALLANT...NELAGONEY AND OKESA.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH.
REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.The Tulsa radar (KINX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:21 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power poles.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees down two miles west of Ketchum.
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, September 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: 5337109, 5337110.