Severe thunderstorms that began in eastern Oklahoma spread into northwest and west central Arkansas during the midday hours.
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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 episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms that began in eastern Oklahoma spread into northwest and west central Arkansas during the midday 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 Jun 12, 7:09 AM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 809 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009 .DISCUSSION... UPDATED FORECAST TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3 PM CDT. ADJUSTED THE POPS SLIGHTLY AND ADDED THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WORDING. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL CAUSE THE CONTINUATION OF THE BOWING...LINEAR CONVECTIVE SYSTEM WHICH WILL BE ENTERING THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA BY 9 AM. EXPECT A CONTINUATION TO THE EAST WITH DEVELOPMENT ON THE SOUTH PORTION OF THE AREA TOWARDS THE AREA OF BEST INSTABILITY. ALSO...FORWARD SPEED MAY INCREASE WITH SHORTWAVE TO THE WEST CATCHING UP TO THE MCS AND GIVING IT A PUSH. && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...15 LONG TERM....22
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 504 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-131000- 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- 504 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009 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...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS MORNING. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. DISCUSSION... AN ONGOING MCS CONTINUES TO CHURN ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS... MOVING GENERALLY SOUTHEAST. CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL BE CONDUCIVE TO CONTINUATION OF THIS MCS AS IT ENTERS THE AREA LATER THIS MORNING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS ACTIVITY. RE-INITIATION OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A PERSISTENT FRONT REMAINS DRAPED WEST TO EAST ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. VERY MOIST LOWER LEVELS... AND CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT WILL CREATE THE POSSIBILITY FOR CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO BREACH THE CAPPING INVERSION WITH THE AID OF AFTERNOON HEATING. AGAIN... LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THIS ACTIVITY. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION LIKELY NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS. WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDS. THURSDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... WITH SYNOPTIC CONDITIONS SLOW TO EVOLVE... THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST AT LEAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY CONVECTION OCCURRING WITHIN THE REGION... AS LOWER LEVELS REMAIN MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL ENHANCE THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE AREA... WHILE A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET WILL ENHANCE THE POSSIBILITY OF OVERNIGHT SEVERE MCS ACTIVITY MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1055 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009
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1042 AM TSTM WND DMG 1 E CLAREMORE 36.31N 95.60W
06/12/2009 ROGERS OK STORM CHASER
ESTIMATED 70 MPH WITH TREE LIMBS DOWN.
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KDJPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1111 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009
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1050 AM TSTM WND DMG PRYOR 36.31N 95.32W
06/12/2009 MAYES OK EMERGENCY MNGR
*** 1 INJ *** A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN BY STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS. IT INJURED A WOMAN WHEN IT FELL.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1116 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009
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1112 AM HAIL KEEFETON 35.60N 95.35W
06/12/2009 E0.88 INCH MUSKOGEE OK EMERGENCY MNGR
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KDJPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1117 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009
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1024 AM HAIL ENTERPRISE 35.23N 95.38W
06/12/2009 E1.75 INCH HASKELL OK EMERGENCY MNGR
GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED FROM ENTERPRISE TO NEAR STIGLER
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1126 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009
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1123 AM TSTM WND GST TAHLEQUAH 35.92N 94.97W
06/12/2009 E60.00 MPH CHEROKEE OK EMERGENCY MNGR
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1151 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
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1148 AM HAIL 8 SW TAHLEQUAH 35.83N 95.07W
06/12/2009 E2.75 INCH CHEROKEE OK TRAINED SPOTTER
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KDJThe Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:59 UTC.
16 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A 60 mile an hour wind gust from a thunderstorm was reported by an emergency manager.
An 85 mile an hour wind gust was reported by the broadcast media.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph blew down trees.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down large trees.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph blew down trees.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines.
Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees. Report relayed by NSSL through the SHAVE project.
A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was reported by a storm chaser.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged a building.
The automated observing equipment at the Fort Smith airport recorded a 67 mile an hour wind gust.
A 60 mile an hour wind gust from a thunderstorm was reported by a trained spotter.
A 60 mile an hour wind gust from a thunderstorm was reported by a trained spotter.
Thunderstorm winds damaged chicken houses. Report relayed by NSSL through the SHAVE project.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few large trees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 2009
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: 183161, 183164, 185937, 183166, 185940, 185946, 185950, 183168, 183170, 186124, 185954, 183174, 183177, 183179, 183180, 186137, 183181, 183182.