16 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 8:15 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 915 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004 A WEAK STATIONARY/COLD FRONT EXTENDS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA... GENERALLY FROM SHAWNEE TO LAWTON TO FOARD COUNTY TEXAS. THIS FRONT WILL PROBABLY MOVE LITTLE... IF AT ALL... OVERNIGHT. CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT WAS SUFFICIENT TO CRANK OUT ONE SHORT-LIVED THUNDERSTORM... AND A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS. MINIMAL CONVECTION CONTINUES ALONG THE FRONT... SO HAVE LEFT 20 PERCENTS AROUND IT... AND NEAR THE REMAINS OF THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM LAST NIGHTS MCS. OTHERWISE... HAVE GREATLY CUT BACK ON POPS FOR THIS EVENING. THE PLANS FOR THE MCS ROLLING OUT OF NEW MEXICO SEEM FAIRLY GOOD... ALTHOUGH THE AIM APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN OFF JUST A BIT. IT NOW APPEARS THAT THE MAIN EMPHASIS OF THE MCS WILL REMAIN SOUTH OF OUR FORECAST AREA... IF IT EVEN REACHES THAT FAR EAST. NEVERTHELESS... HAVE LEFT POPS IN THE 40S IN OUR TEXAS COUNTIES IN CASE IT DOES MAKE THE TRIP ACROSS WEST TEXAS. NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE FORECASTS. GRIDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN UPDATED... AND TEXT PRODUCTS ARE BEING SHIPPED AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. 23 = CMS ------------------------- 250 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004 MCS ROLLED THROUGH ON SCHEDULE OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING... PUSHING INITIAL BOUNDARY SOUTH INTO NORTH TEXAS. MAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS STILL MOVING SOUTH ACROSS STATE EARLY THIS AFTN. AS CLOUDS CONT TO CLEAR THIS AFTN AND TEMPS WARM... INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE TO THE POINT WHERE ADDITIONAL TSTM ACTIVITY MAY DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF AREA ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE SFC FRONT. WILL KEEP HIGHER POPS ACROSS SOUTHERN HALF FOR POSSIBLE AFTN AND EARLY EVENING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH EXPECTED OVERNIGHT COMPLEX OF STORMS. OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTN ACROSS HIGH PLAINS OF NM THEN MOVE E/SE ACROSS WEST TX AND MAY CLIP OUR FAR SW ZONES. MODELS STALL SFC BOUNDARY OUT TONIGHT AND THEN EITHER DISSIPATE IT (ETA) OR RETREAT IT NORTH (GFS) AS A WARM FRONT ON WED. WILL KEEP SOME LOW POPS GOING THROUGH WED NIGHT FOR POSSIBILITY OF WARM FRONT MOVING NORTH ACROSS AREA AND THEN WED NIGHT JUST IN CASE SOMETHING MOVES OVER THE BUILDING MID LEVEL RIDGE. BY END OF WEEK MID LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS NORTH TAKING MAIN STORM TRACK WELL NORTH OF AREA AND BRINGING WARMER LOW LEVEL TEMPS BACK INTO AREA. MORE JULY-TYPE TEMPS EXPECTED BY LATE WEEK THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. ONE POSSIBLE FLY IN THE OINTMENT MAY BE WEAK EASTERLY WAVE WHICH MOVES INTO SOUTHERN/EASTERN TX POSSIBLY INTO SE OK OVER WEEKEND. THIS MAY BRING RAIN CHANCES BACK FOR PARTS OF ERN AND SE OK... BUT FOR NOW WILL LEAVE DRY AND CONT TO WATCH. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 67 89 71 94 / 30 20 20 10 HOBART OK 67 92 72 97 / 40 30 20 10 WICHITA FALLS TX 69 92 73 98 / 60 30 20 10 GAGE OK 63 90 68 96 / 20 20 20 10 PONCA CITY OK 64 87 71 93 / 10 20 20 10 DURANT OK 72 89 73 92 / 40 30 20 10 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 30
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1205 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-071200-
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND ALL OF
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
LOCATION...
THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ERICK TO GEARY TO
CHANDLER.
TIMING...
THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM 5 PM
THROUGH OVERNIGHT.
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS...
STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE
RISK AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER
OPERATIONS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT.
DISCUSSION...
AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY GENERATED FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT AND THIS
MORNING HAS BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS NORTH TEXAS... FROM NEAR
FORT WORTH... NORTHWESTWARD TO NEAR KNOX COUNTY TEXAS... TO BETWEEN
LUBBOCK AND AMARILLO. IN ADDITION... A COLD FRONT LOCATED ACROSS
THE NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA AT MIDDAY...
WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST TO NEAR INTERSTATE 44 BY EARLY THIS
EVENING. CLOUD COVER FROM MORNING THUNDERSTORMS HAS RAPIDLY
THINNED ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA... AND WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS... AND THIS WILL ALLOW THE AIRMASS TO RAPIDLY DESTABILIZE
DURING THE AFTERNOON. RAPID REDEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS
EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WHERE SURFACE
CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY WILL BE MAXIMIZED... AND ISOLATED STORMS
MAY ALSO REDEVELOP OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS NEAR THE FRONT AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY.
STORMS DEVELOPING FARTHER WEST ARE EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE INTO ANOTHER
COMPLEX AND MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD OVERNIGHT... AFFECTING SOUTHERN
OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS... WITH THE MOST WIDESPREAD
COVERAGE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST THIRD OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS. THE TORNADO THREAT IS EXCEPTIONALLY LOW AGAIN TODAY... WITH
THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING... AND DAMAGING WINDS WITH THE COMPLEX OF STORMS
OVERNIGHT.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY JUL 7.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...60 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN WEDNESDAY AS THE
FRONT STALLS AND BEGINS TO RETREAT NORTHWARD.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
WEDNESDAY.
MILLERSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1113 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004 OKZ033-TXZ083-070430- HARDEMAN TX-HARMON OK- 1113 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR HARDEMAN AND HARMON COUNTIES. AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLIS AT 1113 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. CJS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1124 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004 OKZ022-070445- WASHITA OK- 1124 PM CDT TUE JUL 6 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR WASHITA COUNTY. AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF BURNS FLAT AT 1124 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. CJS
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:20 UTC.
16 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds caused an area of damage along Highway 183, just 1.5 miles south of the Custer County line. A barn was destroyed, and a commercial building lost its roof. Several trees were also downed.
Wind was measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet.
Wind was measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet.
Wind was measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet.
Tree limbs 2 inches in diameter were broken.
Tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were downed.
Strong thunderstorms dropped isolated storm total rainfall amounts of 2 + inches in west-central Pottawatomie County during the early morning hours of July 7, and produced short-lived river flooding along the Little River. Minor rural flooding occurred along the Little River 5 miles south of Tecumseh, OK at the river gage site. The Little River crested at 12.8 feet, 1.8 feet above flood stage, at 8:30 am CST on July 7 and was above flood stage from 7:00 am CST to 1:00 pm CST on July 7.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, July 2004
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: 5413996, 5413997, 5413998, 5413999, 5414000, 5414001, 5414002, 5414003, 5414004, 5414059, 5414060, 5414061, 5414062, 5414063, 5414064, 5414065, 5414066, 5414067, 5414068, 5414069, 5414070, 5414071, 5414072, 5414073, 5414074.