A few severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma during the morning hours.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
A few severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma during the morning hours.
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 Aug 23, 5:07 AM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 607 AM CDT SAT AUG 23 2008 .DISCUSSION... && .AVIATION... AFTER SLIGHTLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES EARLY THIS MORNING... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. ALTHOUGH TOO SLIGHT TO MENTION IN THE TAFS... THERE WILL BE A SMALL CHANCE FOR CONVECTION IN THE VICINITY OF RVS... TSA... XNA... AND FYV THIS MORNING AS AN MCS MOVES SOUTH FROM KANSAS AND WEAKENS. IN ADDITION... THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR ISOLATED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY IN THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && AVIATION...06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 540 AM CDT SAT AUG 23 2008 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-241000- 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- 540 AM CDT SAT AUG 23 2008 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS MORNING. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...AFTER NOON. DISCUSSION... THE REMNANT OF AN OVERNIGHT MCS IN EASTERN KANSAS IS PERSISTING THROUGH THE THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. AS IT CONTINUES SOUTHWARD AND WEAKENS THIS MORNING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE NORTHERN PORTION OF NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. OTHERWISE... HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST AREAWIDE TODAY. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REACH TRIPLE DIGITS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 75 IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS. WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... A WEAK SURFACE FRONT MAY MAKE IT INTO THE AREA ON SUNDAY... ENHANCING THUNDERSTORM CHANCES SLIGHTLY. OTHERWISE... TYPICAL INTERMITTENT ISOLATED SUMMERTIME CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT WEEK. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:37 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour snapped off two power poles and ripped metal sheets off of two buildings.
The automated wind observing system at Davis Field recorded a 59 mile an hour wind gust.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, August 2008
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: 132703, 132704, 132705.