Thunderstorms moved across northeastern Oklahoma during the early morning hours resulting in isolated wind damage and some flooding.
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The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
Thunderstorms moved across northeastern Oklahoma during the early morning hours resulting in isolated wind damage and some flooding.
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 Jun 18, 1:36 AM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 236 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 .DISCUSSION... MCS HAS ORGANIZED ACROSS NRN KS TONIGHT...AND WILL CONTINUE TO DROP TO THE S/SE. WHILE LOW-LEVEL WIND FIELDS ARE RATHER WEAK...COOL POOL DEVELOPMENT MAY AID IN BRINGING THIS ACTIVITY INTO NERN OK AFTER 5 AM. HAVE ADDED POPS ACROSS NE OK FOR THIS MORNING...AND WILL LIKELY MAKE SOME LAST MINUTE ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON RADAR TRENDS. HAVE OPTED TO KEEP POPS OUT OF THE FORECAST FOR THIS AFTERNOON...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED DEVELOPMENT ALONG ANY LEFTOVER OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ISN/T OUT OF THE QUESTION. OTHERWISE...ACTIVE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. AFTERNOON CONVECTION IS EXPECTED OVER THE HIGH PLAINS...FROM WRN NE/WRN KS/FAR ERN CO AS ANOTHER WEAK SHORTWAVE TOPS THE UPPER RIDGE ACROSS THE ROCKIES. 00Z NAM ALSO HINTING AT DEVELOPMENT FARTHER E...INTO CNTRL/ERN KS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. OVERALL...SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE AND DROP SE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WHILE THE THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN TO OUR WEST...A FEW STORMS COULD APPROACH THE WRN AND NRN REGIONS OF OUR FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ON THE INCREASE THURSDAY MORNING FROM ERN KS SEWD INTO NE OK/NW AR...IN BROAD ZONE OF 850-700MB WARM AIR ADVECTION. FORECAST INSTABILITY AND BULK SHEAR VALUES WOULD SUPPORT SEVERE WEATHER AS THE MCS DROPS SE...ALTHOUGH MAIN CONCERN MAY BE THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL. WILL HOLD OFF ON A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NOW AS BEST CORRIDOR FOR HEAVY RAINFALL REMAINS UNCERTAIN...BUT LATER SHIFTS MAY NEED TO EVENTUALLY INTRODUCE A WATCH. UPPER RIDGE AXIS WILL EVENTUALLY SHIFT E THIS WEEKEND...WITH THE NWLY FLOW GRADUALLY WEAKENING. WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH SLOWLY WARMING TEMPERATURES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 85 69 83 67 / 20 30 50 30 FSM 85 67 83 67 / 10 10 50 40 MLC 87 70 85 69 / 10 20 40 40 BVO 83 67 83 67 / 40 30 50 30 FYV 81 64 79 63 / 10 10 50 30 BYV 79 64 79 63 / 10 10 50 30 MKO 84 67 83 68 / 10 20 50 30 MIO 84 65 80 65 / 20 30 50 30 F10 85 69 84 68 / 10 20 50 30 HHW 88 70 86 69 / 10 20 40 40 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...23 LONG TERM....18
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 458 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-191000- 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- 458 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...THIS MORNING . DISCUSSION... AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES AS ANOTHER MCS HAS DEVELOPED OVERNIGHT ACROSS KANSAS AND THE ASSOCIATED COLD POOL DEVELOPMENT WILL AID PUSHING THIS COMPLEX SOUTH INTO NORTHERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING. STRONG TO SEVERE WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE LEADING EDGE...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WEST OF HIGHWAY 75 WHERE INCREASED SURFACE INSTABILITY EXISTS. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY LATER THIS MORNING...HOWEVER RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT MAY LINGER INTO THE AFTERNOON MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTION IF SUFFICIENT HEATING CAN BE REALIZED. ANOTHER MCS MAY BRUSH AREAS WEST OF HIGHWAY 75 AGAIN LATE TONIGHT...BUT MOST ACTIVITY SHOULD STAY TO THE WEST OF THE AREA. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS. MONDAY...NO HAZARDS. TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... NORTHWESTERLY UPPER FLOW CONTINUES THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK...WITH CHANCES FOR OVERNIGHT AND MORNING THUNDERSTORM TO CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO RAISE FLASH FLOODING CONCERNS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHERE GROUNDS ARE ALREADY SATURATED AND WHERE MAINSTEM RIVERS ARE AT...OR HAVE EXCEEDED CAPACITY. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD BACK ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS FOR THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK....WHICH WILL LIMIT RAIN CHANCES AND INCREASE TEMPERATURES TO SEASONABLE NORMALS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT... INTERESTED PARTIES WILL WANT TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FLASH FLOODING POTENTIAL. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION. $$
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorm wind gusts blew down lots of large branches west of town.
Heavy rain caused flooding which required Interstate 44 to be closed near 33rd West Avenue.
Heavy rain caused small streams to flood in the Meadow Valley subdivision of Sand Springs. Some residents were evacuated using inflatable rescue boats.
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, June 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: 113148, 117706, 121149.