Storm wind gusts reached 70 mph and two F0 tornadoes were reported across eastern Oklahoma. Numerous hail reports occurred, with the largest being 1-inch in diameter. The storms were triggered by a powerful cold front ahead of an unseasonably moist and unstable airmass.
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On January 7, 2008, a series of powerful storms tracked across the area during the late afternoon and evening hours. Due to the extreme length of below freezing temperatures, some locations kept at least 1 inch of snow on the ground for 14 days. Over central Oklahoma, temperatures stayed below freezing for as much as 10 consecutive days. Even walking became dangerous, as several hundred injuries throughout the area were attributed to traffic accidents and slips on the ice. A layer of ice was covered by as much as 9 inches of snow. Ice, snow, and cold temperatures covered much of the area from January 4th through 7th, back in 1973. The lowest temperature in Oklahoma City during the period came on the morning of the 8th, when a low of 4 below zero was reached. The mercury dropped below the freezing mark on the 4th in Oklahoma City, and stayed there until the afternoon of the 11th. Accompanying the heavy snow were record-breaking cold temperatures. Oklahoma City totaled 12.1 inches of snow over a three-day period, from the 5th to the 7th, which is Oklahoma City's second highest storm total accumulation. Some locations across western Oklahoma measured 16-to-18-inch total amounts over the period, with snow drifts reaching 4 feet. A large portion of Oklahoma received at least 10 inches of snow, with North Texas receiving up to 3 inches. The remaining three days were little better with low temperatures of 7, minus 6, and minus 7 degrees, respectively.Ī series of storm systems brought heavy snow and bitterly cold arctic air to the southern plains during the week of January 4th through 11th, in 1988.
The cold spell climaxed on the 4th, when Wichita Falls plunged to its all-time record low temperature of 12 degrees below zero. In fact, the morning low temperatures of January second through fifth, remain record low temperatures for the dates. Wichita Falls recorded one of their coldest weeks in history during the first week of January in 1947.
Fort Towson, now in Choctaw County in January 1833, Fort Arbuckle in 1850, Fort Sill in 1870, Fort Supply in 1873, and Fort Reno in 1883. After the start of weather record keeping by Fort Gibson, other forts soon began keeping their own records. The earliest records were kept not by any type of weather organization, but by the U.S. True rainfall records did not begin until July 1836. The records included data on temperatures and rainy days, but not on precipitation amounts. The oldest known weather records in Oklahoma began at Fort Gibson in January 1824, in what is now Muskogee County. With a gusty north wind, the wind chill dropped to minus 17. The temperature bottomed out at minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit. The coldest Oklahoma temperature of 2019 occurred on this day in the Oklahoma Panhandle near Guymon. Over central Oklahoma, down into western north Texas, a glaze of ice was seen, with several accidents reported in the Oklahoma City area. The hardest hit areas extended from near Durant and Ada, northeast toward Tulsa. On the 1st and 2nd, a strong storm system dumped up to 6 inches of snow over a large part of southern, through northeast Oklahoma. In 1996, the new year was brought in on a snowy note.
This high temperature broke a 17-year record by 1 degree for the warmest temperature for that date. January 2, 2004, was a warm day across western north Texas as the mercury soared to 80 degrees at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. Two passenger jets slid off icy runways at Will Rogers World Airport. The ice also caused havoc with area airport operations. The icy weather caused numerous traffic accidents, including a 35-car pile-up in Oklahoma City shortly after midnight. On January 1st and 2nd of 1993, an intense storm system brought accumulations of sleet and freezing rain to much of the region. One year earlier, the temperature only fell to 56 degrees, which set a record for the warmest low. On January 1, 2006, a record high of 77 degrees occurred. Several streams across southern Oklahoma, such as Buffalo and Antelope Springs, were completely dry to start the year.īoth New Year's Day 20 set warm temperature records in Oklahoma City. Impacts of the drought included wildfires and extremely low creek levels. The beginning of 2009 brought no signs of relief as Oklahoma continued to be in a moderate drought from 2008.
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