Drought in Cherokee, Oklahoma

A number of organized thunderstorm complexes affected eastern Oklahoma during the month of June, which resulted in widespread heavy rainfall across the region. Most of the area received between six and fifteen inches of rain, with as much as around twenty inches occurring locally. This rainfall corresponded to 150 to 450 percent of average monthly rainfall amounts across much of the region during the month. As a result of this abundant, widespread heavy rainfall, severe (D2) drought conditions across portions of Muskogee, Cherokee, and Mayes Counties, and extreme (D3) drought conditions across portions of Choctaw County, improved to abnormally dry (D0) drought conditions or better by the end of the month. Monetary damage estimates as a result of the drought were not available.