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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 1:42 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 242 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 2006 .DISCUSSION... EXTENSIVE CU FIELD BECOMING INCREASINGLY AGITATED AS MOST RECENT RADAR VOLUME SCANS HAVE GIVEN WAY TO ISOLATED ECHOES THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE PAST FEW DAYS HAVE INDICATED...WILL GO AHEAD AND CARRY LOW POPS INTO THE EVENING. SIMILAR DAY ON TAP FOR TOMORROW THOUGH THE MEANDERING UPPER WEAKNESS IS ALMOST NON EXISTENT BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON...STILL FOR NOW...WILL CONTINUE WITH AN AFTERNOON/EVENING SLIGHT CHANCE MENTION AREAWIDE. UPPER RIDGE STRENGTHENS SOME TOWARDS THE WEEKEND...SO HAVE OPTED TO RAISE TEMPS SOME. AREAL COVERAGE POTENTIAL DIURNAL CONVECTION IS TOO LOW TO WARRANT MENTION AT THIS TIME. EARLY NEXT WEEK...UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDING THE NEXT COLD FRONT ENTERS THE PICTURE. 12Z GFS HAS BACKED OFF ON BRINGING THE FRONT INTO THE AREA...WHICH SEEMS A BETTER BET GIVEN THE TIME OF THE YEAR. WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK HOWEVER GIVEN UNCERTAINTY AND MODEL INCONSISTENCY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 75 101 75 101 / 20 10 10 0 HOBART OK 75 102 75 103 / 20 10 0 0 WICHITA FALLS TX 76 102 77 102 / 20 10 0 0 GAGE OK 73 103 73 104 / 20 10 0 0 PONCA CITY OK 75 104 76 104 / 20 10 10 10 DURANT OK 75 101 75 101 / 20 10 10 10 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 99/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1132 AM CDT TUE AUG 8 2006
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-091200-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
1132 AM CDT TUE AUG 8 2006
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN
OKLAHOMA AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS...HOWEVER
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
DISCUSSION...
A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE TO ROTATE AROUND THE
MAIN UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM. THE UPPER DISTURBANCE...
COUPLED WITH AFTERNOON HEATING...WILL ALLOW FOR ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING
HOURS. ISOLATED STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA...WITH THE
BEST CHANCE IN PARTS OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS
NEAR THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. THE MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. HOWEVER... BRIEF
DOWNBURST WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STRONG
STORMS.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY AUG 9.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...40 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...LESS THAN 10 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
TAKE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE ONGOING EFFECTS OF THE HEAT ON PEOPLE
AND PETS. THE GREATEST HEAT STRESS WILL OCCUR DURING THE AFTERNOON
HOURS AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB ABOVE THE CENTURY MARK WITH HEAT INDICES
BETWEEN 102 AND 105.
HIGH TO VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE FIRE DANGER
STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE THE DOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE
THROUGH THIS WEEK WITH LIMITED THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. HOWEVER...
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY INTO MONDAY AS A
COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
HEAT STRESS WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS FOR PEOPLE AND PETS THROUGH MUCH OF THIS WEEK.
HOT TEMPERATURES AND DRY VEGETATION WILL ALSO RESULT IN A HIGH TO
VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER THIS WEEK.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
WEDNESDAY.
MAXWELLSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 658 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 2006 OKZ028-029-090020- CLEVELAND OK-MCCLAIN OK- 658 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR MCCLAIN AND CLEVELAND COUNTIES. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR NEWCASTLE AND 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOLDSBY AT 658 PM... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS IN NEWCASTLE... MOORE AND SOUTH OKLAHOMA CITY WITH THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL OF STRONG WINDS IN THE NORMAN AND GOLDSBY AREAS. RESIDENTS OF MCCLAIN AND CLEVELAND COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED. ...SPEG.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous 6-8 inch diameter tree limbs were broken near Lions Park. A 50 foot section of fence was downed at a home in town. Several 4x4 posts were snapped. The awning was peeled away from another house nearby.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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