Excessive Heat, McCurtain
- When
- September 12, 12:00 AM CST to September 14, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain forecast zone
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 34.115, -94.771 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Excessive Heat in Oklahoma, September 12 to 14, 2011
Westerly winds in the lower levels of the atmosphere and a strong ridge of high pressure aloft allowed for triple digit temperatures once again across McCurtain County in Southeast Oklahoma during the middle portion of September. This was the conclusion of a record breaking year when it came to heat across McCurtain County.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
Westerly winds in the lower levels of the atmosphere and a strong ridge of high pressure aloft allowed for triple digit temperatures once again across McCurtain County in Southeast Oklahoma during the middle portion of September. This was the conclusion of a record breaking year when it came to heat across McCurtain County.
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 Sep 11, 8:31 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 8:31 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 931 PM CDT SUN SEP 11 2011 .DISCUSSION... THIS EVENING THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS HAS SHIFTED EAST OF THE FOUR STATE REGION HAS TAKEN AWAY ANY RAIN CHANCES FOR THE FORECAST AREA. SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDED FROM SE AR INTO N LA AND TO THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH DEEP EAST TEXAS. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE AREA UNDER NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN ALOFT. CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT EXPECTED. HAVE MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE WINDS AND DEW POINTS TONIGHT AND FOR MONDAY. /06/ && .AVIATION... CONCERNING THE ARKLATEX...VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE TERMINAL FORECAST PERIOD...BUT WITH AN AREA OF SMOKE FROM A NE TX FIRE AFFECTING KSHV THIS EVENING...WITH KDTN/KBAD DOWNWIND. THE SMOKE LAYER WAS AT 4KFT AT 02Z...BUT MAY BE SINKING IN THE NIGHT AIR. WE HAVE SEEN A FEW BITS OF ASH. THE LOW LEVEL WINDS ARE LIGHT NW WITH SFC WINDS MUCH THE SAME OR BCMG CALM FOR THE OVERNIGHT. EXPECT VARIABLE WINDS TOMORROW FROM THE SW AFTER DAYBREAK...VEERING AGAIN TO NW LESS THAN 10KTS FEW GUSTS TO 15KTS IN THE AFTERNOON. /24/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 64 98 65 99 71 / 0 0 0 0 10 MLU 61 93 63 94 68 / 10 0 0 0 10 DEQ 56 95 59 97 64 / 0 0 0 0 20 TXK 61 96 63 97 70 / 0 0 0 0 10 ELD 58 94 60 96 66 / 10 0 0 0 10 TYR 64 99 65 100 69 / 0 0 0 0 10 GGG 60 100 63 101 68 / 0 0 0 0 10 LFK 61 100 64 102 68 / 0 0 0 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 06/24
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 11, 10:43 AM CST, 13 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1143 AM CDT SUN SEP 11 2011 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-121100- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN- UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA- NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE- FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG- HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA- SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 1143 AM CDT SUN SEP 11 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Excessive Heat
- Heat at or above the local excessive heat warning criteria, or heat that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Puerto Rico, September 12 to 13, 2011
- Hail in Arizona, September 12, 2011
- Dust Storm and Hail in Arizona, September 12, 2011
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Superior, September 12, 2011
- Excessive Heat in Arkansas, September 12 to 14, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, September 12, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 12, 2011
- Hail in Minnesota, September 12, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, September 12, 2011
- Hail in South Carolina, September 12, 2011
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, September 12, 2011
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, September 12, 2011
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, September 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: 339193.