With persistent dry conditions and only a few rain and snow events, much of southwest and western Oklahoma continued to see drought conditions.
Every event with a place to put it; 13 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 OUN wrote it up.
With persistent dry conditions and only a few rain and snow events, much of southwest and western Oklahoma continued to see drought conditions.
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 5:00 PM CST, 7 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 600 PM CDT THU OCT 31 2013 .AVIATION... WINDS WILL DECREASE QUICKLY AROUND 00Z AND SHIFT TO THE SOUTHWEST/SOUTH WITH CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT. A SFC FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA AFTER MIDNIGHT AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE MORNING HOURS ON FRIDAY... SHIFTING SFC WINDS BACK TO THE NORTH. DEEPER MIXING AND SOME CAA WITH RESULT IN GUSTY NORTH/NORTHWEST WINDS DURING THE DAY ACROSS ENTIRE AREA. UPPER WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH... BUT WILL ONLY BRING SOME MID/HIGH CLOUDS AS LOWER LEVELS REMAIN DRY. 30 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 255 PM CDT THU OCT 31 2013/ .DISCUSSION... IT IS MUCH QUIETER ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AS THE UPPER TROUGH SWINGS INTO THE MIDWEST AND THE COLD FRONT PUSHES INTO SE OK. WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE WITH DECOUPLING TONIGHT AND ALTHOUGH A SFC RIDGE IS NOT EXPECTED OVERHEAD...DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOW 40S NW TO SE RESPECTIVELY AND CLEAR SKIES WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO DROP INTO THE LOW 40S FOR SEVERAL LOCATIONS. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL ENTER NW OK DURING THE DAY TOMORROW AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH DIGS OVER THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES AND DEEPER NW FLOW ALOFT ESTABLISHES ITSELF ON THE BACK SIDE OF A LONGWAVE TROUGH. A SFC HIGH WILL ACCOMPANY THIS ONE AND MOVE OVER THE PANHANDLE PANHANDLE. LOWS WILL DROP INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ACROSS THE NW ZONES AS A RESULT. SHORTWAVE RIDGING WILL FOLLOW FOR SATURDAY...BUT THE SFC HIGH WILL ONLY SLOWLY SHIFT EASTWARD OVER THE MAJORITY OF OUR FA. EXPECT HIGHS IN THE LOW 60S TO LOW 70S NE TO SW RESPECTIVELY SAT AFTERNOON UNDER THE AFOREMENTIONED. A SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL THEN EJECT OVER THE PANHANDLE SOMETIME SUNDAY-EARLY MON. THERE IS STILL SOME DISAGREEMENT ON TIMING REGARDING THIS FEATURE...BUT OVERALL THINK ENOUGH MID LEVEL MOISTURE AND LIFT WILL RESULT IN SOME SHOWERS. THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK AS STRONG LOW-MID LEVEL WAA DEVELOPS AHEAD OF A DEEP MID TO UPPER TROUGH TRAVERSING THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. THERE IS SLIGHTLY BETTER AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NWP MODELS ON BOTH THE PROGRESSION AND POSITION OF THIS TROUGH...BUT THE ECMWF IS STILL A BIT SLOWER THAN THE GFS. REGARDLESS...PLENTY OF MOISTURE WILL BE PRESENT BY THE TIME IT IMPACTS OUR FA SO WE WILL CONTINUE WITH AT LEAST HIGH CHC POPS THROUGH LATE TUESDAY. THESE COULD LINGER THROUGH WED ACROSS THE EAST...BUT MOISTURE PROFILES SUGGEST OTHERWISE. THE COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TROUGH WED MAY BE THE COLDEST OF THE SEASON YET WITH MAXTS IN THE 50S AREA WIDE BEHIND IT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 43 68 41 65 / 0 0 0 0 HOBART OK 42 70 40 66 / 0 0 0 0 WICHITA FALLS TX 44 75 42 70 / 0 0 0 0 GAGE OK 34 66 31 67 / 0 0 0 0 PONCA CITY OK 41 66 38 61 / 0 0 0 0 DURANT OK 48 76 45 68 / 0 0 0 0 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 04/03
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
445 PM CDT THU OCT 31 2013
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-011200-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
445 PM CDT THU OCT 31 2013
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
DISCUSSION...
HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD A VERY DRY AIRMASS ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT FRIDAY NOV 1.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...0 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
THERE IS A CHANCE OF PATCHY FROST LATE TONIGHT ACROSS FAR
NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS A
SLOW MOVING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
PATCHY FROST IS POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS PARTS OF FAR
NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA EARLY SATURDAY
MORNING.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL ISSUED BY
5 AM FRIDAY.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
13 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe (D2) drought persisted across much of the county.
Severe (D2) drought continued across western parts of the county.
Severe (D2) drought continued across western parts of the county.
Far western portions of the county continued to see severe (D2) drought conditions.
Severe (D2) to extreme (D3) drought persisted over southern and eastern portions of the county.
Extreme (D3) drought covered most of the county through the month.
Drought ranged from severe (D2) across northern parts of the county, to exceptional (D4) over the southern half of the county.
Exceptional (D4) drought persisted over the entire county through the month.
Drought conditions ranged from exceptional (D4) to severe (D2) from west to east across the county.
Severe (D2) drought covered much of the county at the beginning of the month, with extreme (D3) drought developing over far western portions of the county by months' end.
Western parts of the county saw persistent severe (D2) drought conditions throughout the month.
Severe (D2) drought conditions persisted across southern portions of the county through the month.
Severe (D2) drought persisted across southwestern portions of the county throughout the month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, November 2013
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: 482936, 482937, 482938, 482939, 482940, 482941, 482942, 482943, 482944, 482945, 482946, 482947, 482948.