With few rainfall events, extreme to exceptional drought persisted through the month.
Every event with a place to put it; 8 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 few rainfall events, extreme to exceptional drought persisted through the month.
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 Nov 30, 10:43 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1043 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2014 .DISCUSSION... THE 06Z AVIATION DISCUSSION FOLLOWS.... && .AVIATION... CLOUD COVER APPEARS TO BE FILLING IN MORE SLOWLY AND HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED...SO UNLESS THERE IS UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT OF LOWER CEILINGS BEFORE 0530Z...THIS SET OF TAFS WILL HAVE LESS MVFR COVERAGE OVERNIGHT INTO TOMORROW. THERE REMAINS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR FZDZ/FZRA...ESPECIALLY ALOFT...OVER THE SE 1/3 OR SO OF OK OVERNIGHT. THIS PRECIPITATION/VIRGA IS NOT EXPECTED TO AFFECT OUR TAF SITES. BRISK N WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT INTO TOMORROW AS COLD HIGH PRESSURE MOVES S INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. AS A CENTER OF HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES OVER OK TOMORROW EVENING...WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 918 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2014/ UPDATE... COLD FRONT IS EXITING THE LAST OF THE FA NOW. BREEZY NORTH WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL CONT OVERNIGHT INTO MON MORNING LEADING TO COLD WIND CHILLS. STILL CAN NOT RULE OUT SOME DRIZZLE/FREEZING DRIZZLE/SLEET IN SE PARTS OF FA OVERNIGHT INTO THE MORNING SO WILL CONT WITH POPS BUT HAVE TRIMMED A LITTLE OFF THE NORTH AND WEST SIDES. ALSO LOWERED MIN TEMPS A FEW DEGREES AS TEMPS ARE CURRENTLY DROPPING A LITTLE FASTER THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECASTED. SO OVERALL... A CHILLY AND BREEZY NIGHT WITH CLOUDS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA AND A SMALL CHANCE OF PRECIP IN SE PARTS OF THE FA. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 539 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2014/ DISCUSSION... THE 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION FOLLOWS.... AVIATION... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL HAVE PASSED THROUGH ALL OF OUR TAF SITES BY 00Z. BRISK NORTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT ALL SITES. MODELS SHOW CLOUDS FILLING IN BEHIND THE FRONT...PROBABLY WITH CEILINGS BETWEEN 2000 FT AND 3000 FT...AND THERE IS SOME INDICATION THAT PRECIPITATION MAY ALSO OCCUR OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY AS FAR NW AS I-44. GIVEN THE DRY CONDITIONS NEAR THE SFC...HOWEVER...VIRGA SEEMS LIKELY TO BE MORE WIDESPREAD THAN ACTUAL PRECIPITATION...AND THIS COULD PRESENT A HIDDEN ICING HAZARD WHERE FZDZ OR FZRA FALLS...BUT DOES NOT REACH THE GROUND. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 236 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2014/ DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT WILL CONT TO PUSH SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHERN OK INTO NORTH TX THIS AFTN WITH MUCH COLDER TEMPS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL ALSO CREATE LOW WIND CHILLS WITH SINGLE DIGITS AND TEENS ACROSS A GOOD PORTION OF THE AREA BY MONDAY MORNING. THERE IS STILL A CHANCE FOR SOME VERY LIGHT RAIN DEVELOPING THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. AFTER MIDNIGHT AS TEMPS COOL THERE IS A LOW CHANCE TO SEE SOME LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE OR EVEN LIGHT SLEET ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. MODELS HAVE TRENDED IN KEEPING THIS POTENTIAL OUT OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AS LOW LEVEL AIR MOVING IN BEHIND THE FRONT IS VERY DRY. DO NOT ANTICIPATE ANY SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL ISSUES AS ANY PRECIP THAT DOES FALL WILL BE VERY LIGHT AND STRONG WINDS AND DRY AIR WILL AID IN SUBLIMATING MOISTURE OFF OF ROADWAYS. A COLD... RATHER RAW DAY EXPECTED MONDAY... ALTHOUGH MODELS ARE A BIT MORE OPTIMISTIC THAT WE MAY SEE MORE SUNSHINE BY AFTN. TEMPS WILL STILL STRUGGLE TO RISE ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK. CLEAR SKIES... LIGHT WINDS AND VERY DRY AIR WILL MAKE FOR ANOTHER COLD NIGHT MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING BEFORE SOME RECOVERY IN TEMPS OCCUR TUE AFTN. THIS WARMING TREND CONT MIDDLE OF THE WEEK AS MORE SEASONAL TEMPS OCCUR. MODELS CONT TO COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. BOTH HAVE RAIN CHANCES RETURNING TO THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY AS ANOTHER WEAKER FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA. BETTER RAIN CHANCES RETURN LATE IN THE WEEK AND NEXT WEEKEND AS STRONGER MID-LEVEL STORM SYSTEMS EJECT OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT ANY PRECIP THAT OCCURS WOULD BE IN LIQUID FORM. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 23 32 21 47 / 10 0 0 0 HOBART OK 21 32 18 48 / 10 0 0 0 WICHITA FALLS TX 27 32 22 49 / 10 10 0 0 GAGE OK 13 33 14 53 / 0 0 0 0 PONCA CITY OK 19 31 16 45 / 0 0 0 0 DURANT OK 34 37 25 49 / 30 20 10 0 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 25/23/23
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 735 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2014 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-011815- 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- 735 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... .COLD WEATHER AND WINTRY PRECIPITATION... COLD TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH NORTH WINDS OF 10 TO 25 MPH... WILL RESULT IN WIND CHILLS IN THE TEENS AND SINGLE DIGITS THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. BUNDLE UP AND WEAR EXTRA LAYERS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE COLD IF YOU PLAN ON BEING OUTDOORS. LIGHT RAIN MAY DEVELOP ALONG OR JUST BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT OVER PORTIONS OF FAR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA. RAIN MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING DRIZZLE OR SLEET TOWARDS DAY BREAK MONDAY... AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING OVERNIGHT. WHILE ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE LOOK TO BE MINIMAL...MINOR TRAVEL IMPACTS MAY OCCUR ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA MONDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... .COLD WEATHER AND WINTRY PRECIPITATION... COLD AIR AND BREEZY NORTH WINDS WILL RESULT IN WIND CHILLS RANGING FROM NEAR ZERO ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA...TO THE SINGLE DIGITS AND TEENS ACROSS MUCH OF OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS. WIND CHILLS WILL REMAIN IN THE TEENS AND TWENTIES ALL DAY MONDAY...SO BUNDLE UP AND WEAR LAYERS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE COLD. FREEZING DRIZZLE... OR PERHAPS A MIXTURE OF LIGHT RAIN... FREEZING DRIZZLE... AND SLEET MAY BE ONGOING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA MONDAY MORNING. ANY PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO END BY NOON. LITTLE ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED... AND ANY IMPACTS WILL BE MINOR. CONTINUE TO MONITOR FORECASTS CLOSELY AS TRAVEL MAY BE IMPACTED IN SOME AREAS. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. MA/JTK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D3 (extreme) to D4 (exceptional) drought persisted.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D3 (extreme) to D4 (exceptional) drought persisted.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D3 (extreme) to D4 (exceptional) drought persisted.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D3 (extreme) to D4 (exceptional) drought persisted.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D3 (extreme) to D4 (exceptional) drought persisted.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D3 (extreme) drought persisted.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D4 (exceptional) drought persisted.
With almost no rainfall over the month, D4 (exceptional) drought persisted.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, December 2014
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: 553512, 553513, 553514, 553515, 553516, 553517, 553518, 553519.