1 wildfire, 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 4, 2:49 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 249 PM CST SAT FEB 4 2006 .DISCUSSION... NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT SPILLING SOME HIGH CLOUDS DOWN INTO WESTERN OK TODAY. EXPECTED THIS TO GRADUALLY SPREAD INTO THE AREA TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS UPPER WAVE CURRENTLY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHERN/CENTRAL ROCKIES TOWARD THE AREA. MOISTURE RETURN AHEAD OF THIS FAST MOVING FEATURE APPEARS TO REMAIN THE QUESTION...BUT AT LEAST A SMALL SHOT AT SOME PRECIP BY LATE FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. GIVEN THE EXPECTED TEMP PROFILES WOULD ALSO EXPECT TO SEE THE POTENTIAL FOR A LITTLE SNOW MAINLY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA. WITH THE EXPECTED FAST MOVING NATURE OF THE WAVE...DO NOT ANTICIPATE MUCH IF ANY ACCUMULATION AT THIS POINT. STILL BEARS WATCHING THOUGH FOR TOMORROW NIGHT MAINLY OVER THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE AREA. ANOTHER WAVE IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN ANTICIPATED BY MIDWEEK...TUESDAY NIGHT OR WEDNESDAY...BUT MOISTURE RETURN EVEN MORE QUESTIONABLE. NO PRECIP ADDED FOR THIS SYSTEM AT THIS TIME. BY THE LATTER PART OF THE FORECAST THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME MUCH COLDER AIR APPEAR TO BE IN THE PICTURE AS STRONG HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS DOWN TOWARD THE AREA. STILL SEVERAL DAYS OFF...BUT MODELS DO SEEM TO BE GRADUALLY TRENDING THAT WAY BY AT LEAST FRIDAY INTO NEXT WEEKEND. IN THE SHORT TERM...FIRE DANGER WILL ALSO REMAIN A CONCERN INTO TOMORROW. CONDITIONS RATHER CLOSE TODAY...AND PROBABLY MORE OF THE SAME FOR SUNDAY. CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO REMAIN A LITTLE SHY OF RED FLAG CRITERIA...BUT STILL A CONCERN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 27 54 29 52 / 0 10 20 10 FSM 25 54 33 51 / 0 10 40 10 MLC 27 59 30 53 / 0 0 20 10 BVO 20 50 23 53 / 0 10 20 10 FYV 19 50 30 45 / 0 10 40 10 BYV 20 48 30 43 / 0 10 40 10 MKO 25 55 30 49 / 0 10 30 10 MIO 22 50 25 46 / 0 10 30 10 F10 26 56 29 51 / 0 10 20 10 HHW 31 60 36 54 / 0 10 20 10 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM FORECASTER ID= 21 LONG TERM FORECASTER ID= 4
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1255 PM CST SAT FEB 4 2006 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-051100- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 100 PM CST SAT FEB 4 2006 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. FIRE WEATHER DANGER. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING...ENDING BY SUNSET. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. DISCUSSION... AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES HAVE FALLEN INTO THE 20 PERCENT RANGE...WITH GUSTY NORTHWESTERLY WINDS FURTHER ADDING TO FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN COOL...HOWEVER GIVEN THE LOW HUMIDITIES...AGGRESSIVE FIRE BEHAVIOR IS POSSIBLE. FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE QUICKLY NEAR SUNSET. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUNDAY...HIGH FIRE WEATHER POTENTIAL. MONDAY...WINTER WEATHER POTENTIAL EARLY. TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS. WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDS. THURSDAY...NO HAZARDS. FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THE FIRE DANGER WILL BE HIGH AGAIN SUNDAY AS AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES FALL TO AROUND 30 PERCENT AND SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS INCREASE INTO THE 10 TO 15 MILE AN HOUR RANGE. A STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT BRINGING A CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN. THE RAIN MAY CHANGE TO LIGHT SNOW NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40...BEFORE ENDING LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. LITTLE TO NO SNOW ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A man who was working on an oil rig's electrical box was injured when it short circuited. The sparks from the wires ignited a wildfire that severely burned him. He was flown by helicopter to a Tulsa hospital where he died on 2/8/06 from burn-related injuries.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildfire, Okmulgee | 2006-02-08 | 81 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, February 2006
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: 5492912.