With high pressure in place, heat indices ranged from 92 to 96 degrees between the 5th and the 9th. The Emergency Medical Services Authority reported ten calls for heat related injuries over this period.
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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 high pressure in place, heat indices ranged from 92 to 96 degrees between the 5th and the 9th. The Emergency Medical Services Authority reported ten calls for heat related injuries over this period.
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 Jun 5, 5:24 AM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 624 AM CDT FRI JUN 5 2015 .AVIATION... 12Z TAFS... VFR CEILINGS THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. SHOWERS/STORMS IN KS EARLY THIS MORNING EXPECTED TO REMAIN NORTH AND EAST OF TAF SITES... BUT SOME LOWER VFR CLOUDS AND A WIND SHIFT WILL OCCUR WITH AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 320 AM CDT FRI JUN 5 2015/ DISCUSSION... MCS MOVING ACROSS KANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING MAY DEVELOP TOWARDS THE KANSAS-OKLAHOMA BORDER BUT STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN OUT OF THE FA THIS MORNING. HOWEVER... WILL NEED TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR. UPPER RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION TODAY AND SATURDAY WITH WARM/HOT TEMPERATURES AND BREEZY SOUTH WINDS. MODELS SHOW THE RIDGE BEGINNING TO BREAK DOWN SOME SUNDAY AS TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL ALSO MAKE A RUN AT MOVING INTO PARTS OF THE FA. THIS WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS/STORMS TO PARTS OF THE FA... WITH THE BEST CHANCE IN NORTHERN OK. MODELS THEN SHOW A SHORTWAVE MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL/SOUTHERN PLAINS THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT WEEK CONTINUING THE CHANCE OF SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA. MODELS SHOW ANOTHER DISTURBANCE/SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL/SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE NEXT WEEK CONTINUING THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MEANWHILE... TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN WARM/HOT THROUGH NEXT WEEK WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S AND 90S. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 90 69 91 68 / 0 0 0 0 HOBART OK 91 67 92 68 / 0 0 0 0 WICHITA FALLS TX 90 68 93 69 / 0 0 0 0 GAGE OK 91 66 91 67 / 0 0 0 0 PONCA CITY OK 92 69 92 71 / 10 0 0 0 DURANT OK 90 69 92 69 / 0 0 0 0 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 06/25/25
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 457 AM CDT FRI JUN 5 2015 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-061000- 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- 457 AM CDT FRI JUN 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... .THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INCREASE LATE SUNDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY WHEN A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH INTO THE AREA AND SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Maximum heat indices made it 92 degrees. The Emergency Medical Services Authority reported four calls for heat related injuries.
Maximum heat indices made it 92 degrees. The Emergency Medical Services Authority reported two calls for heat related injuries.
Maximum heat indices made it 94 degrees. The Emergency Medical Services Authority reported two calls for heat related injuries.
Maximum heat indices made it 92 degrees. The Emergency Medical Services Authority reported one call for heat related injuries.
Maximum heat indices made it 96 degrees. The Emergency Medical Services Authority reported one call for heat related injuries.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, June 2015
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: 588423, 588424, 588425, 588426, 588427.