Hail, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, 1.33 mi ESE of Battiest
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 34.390, -94.910
Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 28, 2011
With afternoon temperatures near 100 degrees, the atmosphere became very unstable across all of southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas during the afternoon and evening of June 28th. A weak stationary front was located across southern Arkansas into southern Oklahoma late in the day.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
With afternoon temperatures near 100 degrees, the atmosphere became very unstable across all of southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas during the afternoon and evening of June 28th. A weak stationary front was located across southern Arkansas into southern Oklahoma late in the day. A complex of thunderstorms produced an outflow boundary earlier in the day that migrated westward and the boundary bisected the stationary front. Storms initiated at this intersection late in the day with thunderstorms quickly becoming severe producing large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The storms propagated southward along a strong instability axis which extended into Northeast Texas.
What forecasters said that day
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 2:19 PM CST, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:19 PM CST, 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 319 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011 .DISCUSSION... OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM NEAR IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO NEAR CLARKS LOUISIANA AT 3 PM CDT...CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP RAPIDLY INTO THE 80S AS THE BOUNDARY PASSES BY. IT MAY BE STRONG ENOUGHT TO TRAVERSE THE ENTIRE CWA BY EVENNING. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THE BOUNDARY AS IT MOVES SOUTHWEST...THUS WILL CONTINUE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AT THIS TIME. THE MAIN THREAT IS GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE VERY ISOLATED. WILL CONTINUE WITH LOW POPS FOR TONIGHT OVER THE ENTIRE AREA DUE TO THIS STRONG BOUNDARY...AND FOR THE NORTH PART OF THE CWA FOR WEDNESDAY. AFTER WEDNESDAY IT LOOKS LIKE THE UPPER RIDGE WILL TAKE OVER LIMITING CONVECTION THROUGH ABOUT SUNDAY. INTERESTINGLY...BY SUNDAY OR SO...THE RIDGE LOOKS TO BE FAR ENOUGH NORTH TO ALLOW FOR EASTERLY WAVES TO POSSIBLY EFFECT THE SOUTH PART OF THE CWA...INCLUDING EAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. SO WILL HAVE MORE LOW POPS IN THE FORECAST FOR SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. HEAT INDEX READINGS SHOULD CONTINUE TO NEAR THE 105 THRESHOLD FOR A HEAT ADVISORY...BUT WILL NOT ISSUE A HEAT ADVISORY AT THIS TIME...SINCE THIS IS STILL IN QUESTION. && .AVIATION... SOUTHWEST MOVING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE TO SWEEP ACROSS THE CWA. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NW AND MAY GUST TO NEAR 20 KTS. LIGHT SRLY WINDS SHOULD RETURN BEFORE 29/06Z. SCATTERED TSTMS HAVE TRIED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE OUTFLOW BUT HAVE HAD A DIFFICULT TIME MAINTAINING THEMSELVES. THIS TREND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE UNTIL SUNSET WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE BEGINS TO STABILIZE. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. THE LONE EXCEPTION BEING KLFK WHERE SOME MVFR CIGS WILL BE POSSIBLE BETWEEN 29/11Z-29/15Z. /09/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 76 99 76 99 75 / 20 10 10 10 10 MLU 76 98 76 99 73 / 30 20 10 10 10 DEQ 73 97 74 98 74 / 20 20 10 10 10 TXK 75 98 75 98 75 / 20 20 10 10 10 ELD 74 96 74 99 73 / 30 20 10 10 10 TYR 76 99 76 99 76 / 20 10 10 10 10 GGG 76 99 76 99 76 / 20 10 10 10 10 LFK 75 99 75 98 74 / 20 10 10 10 10 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 03/09
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 11:15 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1215 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011 ARZ060-061-071>073-291100- COLUMBIA-HEMPSTEAD-LAFAYETTE-NEVADA-UNION AR- 1215 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...AND IT MAY TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE BOUNDARY WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA DURING THE TIME OF MAXIMUM HEATING...WHICH WILL ENHANCE THE INSTABILITY. GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... HOT TEMPERATURES AND MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY WARM HEAT INDEX READINGS THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK...WITH THE HEAT INDEX TEMPERATURE NEAR 105 EACH AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. ARZ050-051-059-070-LAZ001>006-010>014-018>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-097- 108>112-124>126-138-291100- BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CLAIBORNE-DE SOTO- FRANKLIN-GRANT-HARRISON-HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER- MARION-MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NATCHITOCHES-OUACHITA-RED RIVER LA- RED RIVER TX-SEVIER-TITUS-UNION LA-UPSHUR-WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 1215 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH ARKANSAS AND INTO NORTH LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...AND IT MAY TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE BOUNDARY WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA DURING THE TIME OF MAXIMUM HEATING...WHICH WILL ENHANCE THE INSTABILITY. GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM 96 TO 100 DEGREES ACROSS THE AREA...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES RANGING FROM 102 TO 106 DEGREES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... HOT TEMPERATURES AND MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE NEAR EXTREME HEAT CONDITIONS THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. LAZ017-TXZ136-137-149>153-165>167-291100- ANGELINA-CHEROKEE-GREGG-NACOGDOCHES-PANOLA-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SHELBY-SMITH- 1215 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM 96 TO 100 DEGREES ACROSS THE AREA...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES RANGING FROM 102 TO 106 DEGREES. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... HOT TEMPERATURES AND MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE NEAR EXTREME HEAT CONDITIONS THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 03
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 12:32 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
132 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011
LAZ014-281930-
OUACHITA-
132 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
PARISH...
IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
OUACHITA...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
STERLINGTON AND SWARTZ...
AT 131 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST TO THE SOUTH OF STERLINGTON OR
NEAR FAIRBANKS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
13Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:02 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
202 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011
LAZ014-021-281930-
CALDWELL-OUACHITA-
202 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
PARISHES...
IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
OUACHITA AND CALDWELL...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
MONROE AND RICHWOOD...
AT 201 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RICHWOOD...OR NEAR THE
SOUTHERN PORTION OF MONROE...MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
13Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:08 PM CST, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
308 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011
ARZ050-OKZ077-282115-
MCCURTAIN-SEVIER-
308 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
SEVIER...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
MCCURTAIN...
AT 308 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF WICKES...OR 19 MILES
NORTHWEST OF DE QUEEN. A SLOW SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT WAS
INDICATED.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
13The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:58 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, Hochatown
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -94.670
Hail, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, 1.15 mi W of Broken Bow
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 34.030, -94.750
Thunderstorm Wind, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, 0.57 mi W of Broken Bow
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 34.030, -94.740
Several trees were downed in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
Thunderstorm Wind, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 4:06 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, Holly Creek
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 33.980, -94.820
Powerlines were downed in the Holly Creek community.
Funnel Cloud, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, 2.15 mi NNE of Idabel
- Reported by
- Storm Chaser
- Coordinates
- 33.930, -94.820
A lowering of the cloud base resulted in multiple funnel clouds reported by a storm spotter just north of Idabel along Hwy. 259.
Thunderstorm Wind, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, 2.15 mi NNE of Idabel
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Storm Chaser
- Coordinates
- 33.930, -94.820
Winds estimated by a storm spotter just north of Idabel.
Hail, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 4:29 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, 0.57 mi E of Idabel
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.900, -94.820
Thunderstorm Wind, McCurtain
- When
- June 28, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County, 1.5 mi NNW of Boss
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 33.850, -94.880
Wind gust measured at the Oklahoma Mesonet Station.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 28, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 28 to 30, 2011
- Flooding in Wyoming, June 28 to 30, 2011
- Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 28, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 28, 2011
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, June 28, 2011
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 28, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 28, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 28, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, June 28, 2011
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 28, 2011
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Alabama, June 28, 2011
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, June 2011
Sources
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: 306607, 306608, 306611, 306612, 306615, 306609, 306610, 306613, 306614.