Power Outage in Idabel, OK

A few trees downed and a power pole snapped along Highway 3.

A pole was snapped in half with a power line down on Highway 3 east of Pipe Springs Road. A tree was also blown down on Living Land Road between Idabel and Haworth.

Trees and power lines were downed in Idabel.

Power lines were downed in Downtown Valliant.

Trees and power lines were blown down. Roads were blocked.

Numerous trees and powerlines were downed east of Haworth, Oklahoma.

Numerous trees and powerlines were downed north of Valliant, Oklahoma.

Powerlines were downed north of Harris, Oklahoma.

Numerous large limbs and trees were downed across the western and northern portions of the county. A few structures were hit by falling limbs and some power outages were noted across the western and northern portions of the county as well.

Several trees and powerlines were downed blocking roads across the southern half of the county near the Red River.

The tornado touched down along County Road N4440 where it snapped several trees. It continued northeast across rural areas lifting a small outbuilding off of its base on County Road D4447 and snapping additional trees and power lines along N4460 and 298. Two empty train boxcars were blown over off of the railroad tracks just before the tornado crossed US HWY. 70. The tornado continued to snap trees and limbs as it moved through forested land before lifting just southeast of the intersection of N4480 and N4490. Maximum winds were estimated at 90 mph.

Several trees were downed along with power poles and power lines. One tree was blown down onto a vehicle. There were no reports of any injuries.

Powerlines were downed in the Holly Creek community.

Sheriff dispatch reported numerous trees and powerlines downed along Hwy. 37 as well as along Boss Road.

Light freezing rain accumulations near one quarter of an inch was reported in Idabel, Oklahoma the afternoon of December 15th. The ice coated elevated bridges and overpasses in the city along with trees and power lines. There were no reported disruptions in power reported but several vehicle accidents were reported across the county from ice covererd bridges.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ike in McCurtain County, Oklahoma resulted in 10 trees being downed across the county. Power lines were also downed in the communities of Broken Bow and Eagletown, Oklahoma.

Power lines were downed throughout the county resulting in numerous power outages.

Thunderstorm winds downed power poles onto a vehicle.

Numerous trees down across power lines.

After trying to recover from an ice storm two week earlier, another even more devastating ice storm struck much of southeast Oklahoma. Freezing rain resulting in accumulations ranging from 1/4 inch to 3 inches which paralyzed the entire county. At one point there was no power anywhere in the county and some locations went without power for almost a month. Numerous trees and utility poles were snapped due to the weight of the ice. The county was declared a disaster area.

An artic air mass spilled southward out of the central plains and into the lower Mississippi Valley. This cold, surface airmass, was overrun by a warm and humid air mass which combined with a strong upper level storm system across west Texas. The result was widespread rain across southeast Oklahoma, most of which became freezing rain. Sleet and light snow accompanied the freezing rain and in the aftermath of the storm, ice accumulations of two to four inches were common. Much of the county lost electrical power due to ice covered power lines breaking under the wight of the ice, or ice covered tree limbs falling onto power lines and snapping them. Numerous traffic accidents were also reported across the county as ice covered roads and bridges played havoc with travel. Many homes suffered damage from fallen trees and tree limbs. As a result, the Oklahoma governor declared a state of emergency for McCurtain county.

A Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) developed during the late afternoon and early evening hours on June 9th over Western and Central Kansas, near a shortwave trough that drifted east-southeast into the Southern Plains that evening. While this complex of storms weakened as it moved through Oklahoma during the overnight hours, showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of these storms re-intensified by mid and late morning on the 10th across extreme Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas as moderate instability developed with the onset of daytime heating ahead of the trough. Despite the weak shear in place, these storms were able to organize into another MCS as it moved through East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon hours, producing multiple reports of damaging winds which downed trees and power lines, as well as isolated instances of large hail before exiting the region into Southeast Texas and Central Louisiana by early evening.

A deep southwesterly flow aloft prevailed across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on January 30th-February 2nd, ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system that drifted through Southern California, the Desert Southwest into Northern Mexico. Meanwhile, a strong but shallow arctic cold front shifted south through the Southern Plains on the January 29th-30th, before slowing significantly in the higher terrain of the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. Weak upper level disturbances embedded in this flow ahead of the low resulted in widespread sleet and freezing rain across much of the Southern Plains given the warm air above this shallow, freezing air mass, with areas of light freezing rain affecting portions of East Texas, extreme Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas on January 30th-February 2nd. Temperatures through the period ranged from a couple of degrees either side of the freezing mark across McCurtain County Oklahoma, with light ice accumulations ranging from a glaze up to 0.15 inches, mainly on elevated objects such as bridges and overpasses, trees and power lines. ||The following are freezing rain reports across various locations in McCurtain County:||Valliant: 0.15 inches; Smithville: 0.15 inches; 1SW Idabel: 0.10 inches; Battiest: 0.06 inches; 1ENE Haworth: 0.05 inches.

A deep southwesterly flow aloft prevailed across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on January 30th-31st, ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system that drifted through Southern California, the Desert Southwest into Northern Mexico. Meanwhile, a strong but shallow arctic cold front shifted south through the Southern Plains on the 29th-30th, before slowing significantly in the higher terrain of the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. Weak upper level disturbances embedded in this flow ahead of the low resulted in widespread sleet and freezing rain across much of the Southern Plains given the warm air above this shallow, freezing air mass, with areas of light freezing rain affecting portions of East Texas, extreme Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas on the 30th-31st. Temperatures through the period ranged from a couple of degrees either side of the freezing mark across McCurtain County Oklahoma, with light ice accumulations ranging from a glaze up to 0.15 inches, mainly on elevated objects such as bridges and overpasses, trees and power lines. This extended duration of light freezing rain persisted into the first couple days of February across these areas.||The following are freezing rain reports across various locations in McCurtain County: ||Valliant: 0.15 inches; Smithville: 0.15 inches; 1SW Idabel: 0.10 inches; Battiest: 0.06 inches; 1ENE Haworth: 0.05 inches.

A large and amplifying upper trough dug south through the eastern two-thirds of the United States along and east of the Rockies on December 22nd, which ushered in the coldest temperatures for December in decades to much of the country leading up to the Christmas Day holiday weekend. This very cold arctic air mass moved into extreme Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and Northeast Texas during the morning hours of the 22nd, with temperatures falling sharply some 20-30+ degrees with the attendant cold frontal passage into the single digits by the morning hours of the 23rd. Very strong and gusty northwest winds of 35-45 mph were observed behind the front even through the morning of the 24th, producing a long duration of wind chill values ranging from 0 to as low as -13 degrees across extreme Southeast Oklahoma from the afternoon of the 22nd to the morning of the 24th. While the temperatures associated with this arctic air mass were not quite record-breaking for this time of year, the long duration of subfreezing temperatures, which persisted nearly 2 days, resulted in multiple reports of freezing and bursting of water pipes, as well as sporadic power outages across these areas. ||Here are the lowest wind chill values recorded across McCurtain County Oklahoma from December 22nd through the morning of the 24th: ||Mount Herman: -13F, Idabel: -13F, Broken Bow: -10F, Valliant: -10F, and Haworth: -10F.

A complex of showers and thunderstorms over Central and Southern Kansas during the morning of June 5th continued to advance southeast through Central and Eastern Oklahoma and North Texas during the afternoon. These showers and thunderstorms did intensify during the afternoon in response to diurnal heating and resultant instability, briefly becoming severe as they moved through Central and Southern McCurtain County Oklahoma. These storms produced damaging winds which downed power lines in Haworth, resulting in power outages to the community.

A broad upper trough extended south from Southern Minnesota into the Ozarks during the afternoon of April 24th, with a secondary shortwave trough swinging southeast over Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas, which entered Oklahoma during the evening hours. A cold front moved slowly southeast across Northwest Arkansas, Southeast Oklahoma, into Northern and West-central Texas during the afternoon, with large scale forcing ahead of this second shortwave trough focusing showers and thunderstorms along the frontal zone where daytime heating resulted in increased instability over Southeast Oklahoma. Thus, strong to severe thunderstorms developed as a result, which moved across portions of McCurtain County downing trees and power lines and also producing large hail before exiting the area by mid-evening.

A strong but shallow cold front drifted south through Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and Northeast Texas during the afternoon and evening hours of February 22nd, with temperatures plummeting to near and below freezing by the early morning hours of the 23rd. A deep, moist southwest flow aloft was in place across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley during the 22nd-23rd, with embedded impulses in the flow enhancing large scale forcing such that areas of freezing rain mixed with brief periods of sleet fell across much of Northern and Northeast Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Damming of the colder, subfreezing air from the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas slowed the progression of the transition mixed wintry precipitation, such that only McCurtain County Oklahoma, the western sections of East Texas, and the northern sections of Southwest Arkansas observed only minor impacts of the ice accumulations. In these areas, minor ice accumulations occurred on elevated objects such as trees and power lines, with some icing observed on bridges and elevated road surfaces. ||In McCurtain County, the coop observer in Smithville recorded 0.1 inches of ice, with a glazing of ice reported in Broken Bow and Idabel.

A complex of showers and thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours of June 7th across Northwest Texas, and shifted east-southeast across North Texas throughout the morning, ahead of a shortwave trough that ejected east beneath an upper low pressure system that had begun to lift north across Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. The air mass ahead of this complex of storms across the Ark-La-Tex warmed considerably throughout the day, resulting in moderately unstable conditions within a marginally sheared environment. Thus, the storms intensified as they entered East Texas and remained severe and they progressed east across Southern Arkansas and North Louisiana. Trees and power lines were downed throughout the path of these storms across East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southwest Arkansas, before exiting the region during the late afternoon hours. This complex of storms produced a large Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) as it shifted across Northeast Texas into Southwest Arkansas during the late afternoon and early evening, which focused an area of heavy rainfall across McCurtain County Oklahoma during the evening. Rainfall totals of 3-5 inches fell across this area, resulting in flash flooding with multiple roads flooded and closed and vehicles stalled in the high water. These storms finally exited the region and diminished with the passage of these upper level disturbances, before additional storms redeveloped along a remnant surface boundary over Southeast Oklahoma and the northern sections of Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours of June 8th, resulting in additional flash flooding.

A closed upper low pressure system continued to spin across New Mexico during the afternoon and evening of May 18th, ejecting a shortwave trough northeast across Northeast Texas into Southeast Oklahoma. A very moist and unstable air mass had developed during the afternoon over these areas, with the trough enhancing large scale forcing for a complex of showers and thunderstorms which shifted northeast across Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas. Given the extent of instability and adequate wind shear, some of these storms became severe, producing damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across portions of Western Bowie County Texas into Southeast McCurtain County Oklahoma. These storms weakened during the early evening, before dissipating by mid-evening.

On the heels of the first winter storm and historically cold temperatures observed earlier in the week across all of the Southern Plains and much of the Lower Mississippi Valley, a second significant winter storm developed across much of these areas from February 16th-19th, with areas of snow developing across portions of extreme Southeast Oklahoma. While the best forcing and moisture associated with the next upper level trough to move atop the extensive arctic air mass in place remained concentrated farther south across East Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and North Louisiana where higher snowfall amounts were observed, totals ranged from one to in excess of three inches across much of McCurtain County Oklahoma. ||The following are snowfall totals that were recorded at various locations across McCurtain County from this second winter storm: ||1 N Broken Bow: 3.5 inches, Idabel: 3.0 inches, 1 SW of Idabel: 2.0 inches, Smithville: 1.3 inches, Battiest: 1.0 inches.||Once the snows diminished during the late evening hours on the 17th, low temperatures on the 18th and 19th fell back down into the single digits to near 10 degrees across Southeast Oklahoma, but not nearly as cold as what was recorded on the morning of the 16th. When combined with the previous winter storm on the 14th-15th, widespread snowfall totals of six to in excess of ten inches were observed across much of McCurtain County. These totals crippled the region, making driving nearly impossible, with rolling blackouts further aggravated by the additional power outages the snow was responsible for.

A strong but shallow arctic air mass slowly seeped south through the Ouachita Mountains of Southeast Oklahoma and adjacent sections of Southwest Arkansas throughout the early morning hours of February 11th, resulting in temperatures falling below freezing before daybreak across McCurtain County. A southwest flow aloft ahead of a large upper trough over the Rockies resulted in upper level disturbances traversing northeast atop this shallow arctic air mass, with moist and warmer (above freezing) air overrunning the front. This aided in the development of areas of light freezing rain and freezing drizzle over much of Southeast Oklahoma into Western Arkansas during the early morning hours on the 11th, with ice accumulations of up to several hundredths of an inch observed across McCurtain County. This wintry precipitation ended by midday as the front continued to sag south into Northeast Texas.||The ice mainly accumulated on trees and power lines, although some patchy ice was observed on bridges and overpasses in the northern and western sections of the county. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported a five vehicle accident on a bridge on Highway 3 near the Glover community due to icy conditions.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon through the evening hours of August 29th across Western Arkansas, near and just south of a weak surface front draped from Northeast Oklahoma into Western and Central Arkansas, and near an upper level disturbance shifting southeast through Arkansas. A very hot and humid air mass in place just ahead of the front fueled high amounts of instability, with these storms merging into a large mesoscale convective system (MCS) as they shifted south into extreme Southeast Oklahoma and much of Southwest Arkansas. Additional scattered strong to severe thunderstorms also developed over portions of Red River County Texas and McCurtain County Oklahoma, eventually merging into the MCS. As a result, much of this thunderstorm complex became severe, producing damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across McCurtain County Oklahoma and much of Southwest Arkansas during the late evening hours on the 29th through a portion of the early morning hours on the 30th. These storms gradually weakened overnight with diminished instability and as the primary upper level disturbance shifted east of the region.

A longwave trough dug south into the Southern Plains during the daytime hours of October 20th, with southerly winds increasing ahead of the trough helping to return low level moisture north from the Gulf of Mexico. Above normal temperatures were seen across much of the region as readings climbed into the mid 80s to near 90 degrees, which enhanced instability during the late afternoon through the evening hours across much of the Ark-La-Tex area. While an isolated severe thunderstorm developed over portions of East Texas during the evening, which moved into Northwest Louisiana before diminishing, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the late evening through the early morning hours on October 21st across Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas, which later pushed into Southwest Arkansas and North Louisiana ahead of this trough and associated strong cold front. These storms produced several reports of damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across portions of McCurtain County Oklahoma, before diminishing shortly after daybreak with the departure of this system.

A vigorous upper level trough moved into the Southern Plains during the late afternoon, evening and overnight hours of November 30th. Upper level forcing in response to this disturbance moved into the Middle Red River Valley of Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas during the evening hours of November 30th and strong to severe thunderstorms erupted north and west of the Interstate 30 Corridor as as a result. The atmosphere was moderately unstable for the last day in November but strong deep layer and low level directional shear were present. This resulted in supercell type thunderstorms and bowing thunderstorm complexes, one of which moved across Northeast Texas into Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas producing widespread wind damage all along its track. Numerous trees and power lines were downed with these storms before they exited McCurtain County Oklahoma shortly after midnight on December 1st.

A Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) developed during the evening hours of June 23rd over Eastern Colorado, ahead of a shortwave trough which shifted east across Oklahoma and Western Arkansas overnight through the early morning hours of June 24th. As a result, this MCS quickly moved southeast across much of Oklahoma overnight, intensifying as they tracked across Central Oklahoma and eventually into extreme Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas shortly after daybreak. These storms produced numerous reports of wind damage across these areas, including numerous trees and power lines downed across Northern McCurtain County near the Smithville and Bethel communities. The storms weakened shortly thereafter, dissipating by mid-morning.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon across Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas, which ignited with strong afternoon heating along a weak surface boundary extending from East-Central Texas to along the Red River of Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas, to just north of the Arkansas-Louisiana state line. An isolated severe thunderstorm moved across eastern Upshur County Texas, which downed a few trees and damaged a barn north of Ore City. Later in the evening, a complex of showers and thunderstorms developed over Central Oklahoma along a shortwave trough that traversed east into Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas in a continued unstable air mass. These storms were frequently severe across Southeast Oklahoma, downing numerous trees and power lines across Southwest and Southern McCurtain County, with trees also falling on homes and vehicles just north of Valliant. These storms gradually weakened as they moved into Southwest Arkansas after midnight.

A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the morning hours of July 14th over Southern Kansas and Northern Oklahoma ahead of an upper level shortwave trough, and quickly spread east southeast across Eastern Oklahoma into Southeast Oklahoma, Central and Southwest Arkansas during the mid and late afternoon hours. As these storms moved into Southwest Arkansas, they tracked along a residual outflow boundary from a complex of showers and thunderstorms that moved through Southwest and Central Arkansas earlier that morning. Strong heating and instability developed along and south of this surface boundary during the afternoon, resulting in these storms intensifying across the southern half of Arkansas. As a result, widespread wind damage in the form of numerous downed trees, power lines, and some structural damage was reported across Northern McCurtain County Oklahoma and much of Southwest Arkansas, with these severe thunderstorms producing a strong cold pool/gust front which accelerated south. The severe gust front itself produced 60+ mph wind gusts, which downed trees and power lines well ahead of these thunderstorms, with the storms themselves also producing wind damage. The storms then developed southward into the eastern sections of North Central Louisiana during the evening behind the severe gust front, downing additional trees and power lines. The gust front began to gradually weaken after it moved south of Interstate 20, with wind damage reports becoming more sporadic before eventually diminishing over Central Louisiana just prior to midnight.

A very unstable airmass was present across Southeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon and evening hours of June 17th. Scattered thunderstorms developed along a backdoor cold front which moved into Southeast Oklahoma from the northeast. These thunderstorms produced strong wind gusts which downed powerlines and produced some sub-severe hail in Smithville, Oklahoma.

A cold arctic airmass filtered into the region in the preceding days of January 11th with temperatures mostly in the lower 30s. An overrunning moist airmass resulted in the development of mostly light rain across Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas and the Northern third of Northeast Texas. After midnight on the 11th, this precipitation became light freezing rain but due to the temperature being at or just below freezing, ice accumulation was relegated to trees and elevated exposed objects including powerlines and some bridge surfaces. Ice accumulations were mostly near one tenth of an inch across the region.

An arctic cold front moved through the region during the morning hours of March 2nd. An upper level disturbance trailed the cold front and as a result, strong lift resulted in the development of post frontal convection. Surface temperatures slowly fell throughout the day with temperatures reaching the freezing mark by early afternoon across portions of the region. Temperatures cooled enough in the lower levels of the atmosphere such that freezing rain transitioned over to sleet across much of the area. Given the convective nature of some of the precipitation, the sleet accumulated to near one inch across the western portions of McCurtain County, Oklahoma. The freezing rain and sleet accumulations resulted in numerous automobile accidents along with power outages from falling limbs and trees throughout the county.

Vigorous upper level trough moved out of the Southwest United States and into the Texas Hill Country during the morning hours of the 4th. Upper forcing was felt well in advance of the trough across Southeast Oklahoma, the northern third of Northeast Texas into Southwest Arkansas with widespread precipitation breaking out. Temperatures quickly dropped below freezing during the late night hours of the 3rd into the predawn hours of the 4th and as a result, the light rain became mostly freezing rain with a mix of sleet and light snow. The temperatures did not climb above freezing until the mid morning hours of February 4th. Freezing rain accumulations across McCurtain County Oklahoma were mostly near one tenth of an inch. This resulted in ice accumulation on elevated objects only, including bridges, overpasses and powerlines. There were a few automobile accidents along with a few power outages.

A cold high pressure system at the surface brought very cold temperatures to the region during the overnight hours of January 7th and during the morning hours of January 8th. Low level winds returned allowed for returning moisture to portions of Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas during the predawn hours however on January 8th. Through isentropic processes, some light freezing rain and freezing drizzle developed across McCurtian County in Southeast Oklahoma and this resulted in some icing conditions to mainly elevated objects such as bridges, overpasses, trees and powerlines. This led to some several traffic accidents across the county through the mid morning hours on January 8th.

The shallow cold airmass that took over across the region earlier was slow to move out of the region. The cold air was dammed up just south of the Ouachita Mountains in Northern McCurtain County. Moisture continued to fall in the form of light freezing rain and freezing drizzle across the county and the result was once again a light coating of ice across mainly elevated objects such as trees, powerlines, bridges and overpasses. There were reports of traffic accidents once again across the entire county.

Another cold shallow arctic airmass moved southeast out of the Southern Plains and into the Lower Mississippi Valley the first week of December. The shallow subfreezing airmass was overridden with a very warm and moist airmass such that freezing rain fell across the region. Ice accumulation exceeded one quarter of an inch across portions of McCurtain County resulting in accumulation on bridges and overpasses, trees and powerlines. Some minor power outages were noted as well as some automobile accidents during the height of the storm.

A shallow cold layer of air moved out of the Southern Plains and into the Lower Mississippi Valley on the 24th of November. The flow aloft across the southern portion of the country was from the southwest. This resulted in an overrunning pattern of warm and moist air overrunning the cold shallow subfreezing air. The end result was a period of freezing rain and sleet across portions of Southeast Oklahoma. Ice accumulation was mostly less than one quarter of an inch. Temperatures were well above normal before this airmass settled into the region so the ice accumulation was mainly on elevated objects such as bridges, overpasses, trees, powerlines and car tops.

Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed throughout the morning and afternoon of July 26th, ahead of a weak surface front and associated upper level disturbance which moved across the region. Surface low pressure developed during the early evening hours along the surface front, and enhanced the development of stronger convection across a warm and moderately unstable region in Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas. These storms quickly became severe and produced damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across this region before diminishing over extreme North Central Louisiana by late evening. A secondary cluster of severe thunderstorms developed over Northwest Louisiana near this surface low and front, which surged southeast across West Central Louisiana during the late evening and early morning hours of the 26th-27th. Damaging winds again downed trees and power lines across these areas, before weakening prior to sunrise.

A strong cold front moved through the southeast half of Oklahoma during the evening hours of January 13th and the predawn hours of January 14th. Rain and a few storms accompanied the passage of this cold front across the southeast half of the state. A very cold airmass filtered in behind the frontal boundary. Meanwhile, weak disturbances moved towards the state from the west and with plenty of moisture still in place, overrunning precipitation developed during the morning of January 15th. With surface temperatures near or slightly below freezing, the precipitation fell as a mixture of freezing rain and sleet before changing over to light snow. Only light ice accumulations from the freezing rain and sleet were noted in McCurtain County but up to 2 inches of snow were reported across portions of the county as well. Some bridges and overpasses quickly became slick resulting in a few automobile accidents across McCurtain County. In addition, there were some minor power outages from falling limbs due to the weight of the ice.

A deep upper level low pressure system that produced severe thunderstorms across the southern half of Northeast Texas into much of Northern Louisiana produced widespread rain across all of Southeast Oklahoma during Christmas Day. However...much colder arctic air moved into the Middle Red River Valley during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 25th which allowed the rain to change over to snow very quickly. Accumulating snow was common across all of McCurtain County in Southeast Oklahoma. This heavy wet snow resulted in several trees downed along with powerlines which cut power to many locations in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. There were also several accidents reported from the accumulating snow on area roadways and bridges. The following were some snowfall accumulations across the county: Broken Bow: 5 inches, 4 SW of Idabel: 8 inches, 4 SW Haworth: 6.7 inches.

A significant winter storm affected all of Southeast Oklahoma on Sunday, January 9th. This storm system moved out of the Texas Hill Country late on January 8th and moved into the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley during the day Sunday January 9th. An area of low pressure at the surface and in the lower levels of the atmosphere developed offshore the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast and remained offshore the Louisiana Gulf Coast during the day of the event. This low pressure system helped to feed moisture into the region from the south. Initially, the lower levels of the atmosphere were very dry, but lift provided by the storm system helped to moisten and cool the lower levels of the atmosphere such that a combination of freezing rain, sleet and snow were the result across all of Southeast Oklahoma. |The transition from freezing rain and sleet to all snow was quick during the morning of January 9th across the region. The storm system exited the region late on January 9th but not before dumping some impressive freezing rain, sleet and snowfall totals across the southern half of the state. Generally, one quarter to one half inch of freezing rain and sleet was reported initially across portions of McCurtain County, Oklahoma with the snow being the predominant precipitation type during late morning of January 9th. Following are some snowfall totals for January 9th across Southeast Oklahoma: 6 inches in Idabel and Battiest, 5 inches in Valliant. There were a few reports of vehicle accidents and isolated power outages from the Winter Storm in McCurtain County as well.

A shallow but very cold artic airmass spilled southward into the Southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi Valley. This airmass resulted in surface temperatures hovering near to slightly below freezing across McCurtain County, Oklahoma. A warm...moist airmass overran this shallow, colder air near the surface with light rain developing across the county. The light rain became freezing rain across much of the county with ice accumulations near one quarter of an inch reported across portions of McCurtain County, Oklahoma. The ice collected on trees and power lines as well as elevated bridges and overpasses. There were no power disruptions but several accidents were reported across the county.

A strong pressure gradient initially across northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana during the pre dawn hours of April 10th produced non-thunderstorm wind gusts responsible for downing trees and power lines. Later that morning...a squall line entered northeast Texas and southeast Oklahoma producing mostly wind damage along with some large hail and an isolated tornado in Bowie County Texas.