Strong to severe thunderstorms developed across northeastern Oklahoma during the evening hours of the 15th. One of these storms produced damaging wind in Ottawa County.
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Strong to severe thunderstorms developed across northeastern Oklahoma during the evening hours of the 15th. One of these storms produced damaging wind in Ottawa County.
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 Sep 15, 5:45 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 645 PM CDT MON SEP 15 2014 .AVIATION... CONCERNING TAF SITES KTUL/KRVS/KBVO/KMLC/KXNA/KFYV/KFSM. NARROW LINE OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA IN ASSOCIATION WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY. STAYED WITH VCTS FOR THE TUL/RVS/FYV/XNA AREAS THIS EVENING AS STORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO WEAKEN WITH LOSS OF HEATING AND AS SLIGHTLY BETTER DYNAMICS SHIFT EAST. LOW CLOUDS/PATCHY FOG EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INTO TUESDAY MORNING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 349 PM CDT MON SEP 15 2014/ DISCUSSION... SPLOTCHY SHOWERS..SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44 DEPICTED BY RADAR SHOW LITTLE ORGANIZATION. NARROW LINE OF DEVELOPING SHOWERS WANNA BE THUNDER...FROM SOUTH- WEST MISSOURI THROUGH SOUTHEAST KANSAS..TO NORTH- WEST OKLAHOMA WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. FRONT WILL SAG SOUTH..INTO THE NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA TONIGHT AND BRING A CHANCE FOR ADDITIONAL SHOWERS OR ISOLATED THUNDER. GENERIC CHANCE POPS CARRIED. FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE VICINITY OF RED RIVER ON TUESDAY. LOW POPS MAINLY SOUTH. STEEP NORTHWEST FLOW BRINGS OUR NEXT UPPER DISTURBANCE WHICH WILL YIELD CHANCE SHOWERS/THUNDER MAINLY NORTHEAST OK AND NORTHWEST AR. FINALLY..DRY OUT FOR A DAY OR DAY AND A HALF FRIDAY. BOTH ECMWF GFS MODELS BRING TROPICAL MOISTURE TO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS OVER THE WEEKEND. UPPER WAVE & FRONT PICK UP TROPICAL STORM REMNANTS WHILE... MOISTURE LURKING IN TEXAS ALSO PICKED UP. TIMING DIFFERENCES WITH MODELS. SOMETIME THIS WEEKEND WE SEE A VERY HEAVY...BUT NEEDED RAINFALL. GW && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...12
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 451 PM CDT MON SEP 15 2014 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-161000- 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- 451 PM CDT MON SEP 15 2014 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...VERY LIMITED. AREA...FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT IN SOUTHERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS THIS FRONT MOVES INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...A FEW STORMS WILL MOVE INTO FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. A STRONG CELL OR TWO IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. A LIMITED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES SOUTH. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORM CHANCES REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION INTO THURSDAY AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIFTS BACK NORTHWARD TUESDAY AND WEAK DISTURBANCES WITHIN UPPER LEVEL NORTHWESTERLY FLOW MOVE THROUGH THE PLAINS. A MORE DEFINED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND...INCREASING THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. TOPICAL MOISTURE FROM THE PACIFIC INTERACTING WITH THIS SYSTEM COULD CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:24 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a large barn.
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