Thunderstorm Wind in Washington County, Oklahoma

Emergency management personnel measured thunderstorm wind gusts to 80 mph. A hospital, a school, and an apartment complex sustained major damage to their roofs due to the strong wind. Nearly 600 homes were also damaged by the wind, about 100 of which had major damage. Numerous trees and large tree limbs were blown down along with many power poles. Over 10,000 people were without power in Bartlesville at the height of the storm. School was canceled the following day due to the prolonged power outage in the area and due to storm debris covering many roads used by the school buses.

Severe thunderstorms developed near an outflow boundary across northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas during the early evening hours of the 1st. These storms moved across portions of northeastern Oklahoma during the evening, producing large hail up to baseball size, damaging wind gusts of upwards of 80 mph, a brief tornado, and locally heavy rainfall.