| Event | Extreme Heat Warning |
| Severity | Severe |
| Urgency | Expected |
| Certainty | Likely |
| Area | North and Central Sebastian; Southern Crawford; Central and Southern Franklin; Tulsa; Rogers; Mayes; Okmulgee; Wagoner; Muskogee; McIntosh; Haskell; Northern Le Flore; Central and Southern Sequoyah |
| Effective | 9/8/2026, 11:56:00 AM CDT |
| Expires | 9/9/2026, 1:00:00 AM CDT |
Extreme Heat Warning issued September 8 at 11:56AM CDT until September 9 at 7:00PM CDT by NWS Tulsa OK
Details
* WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values in excess
of 110 expected.
* WHERE…Portions of northwest and west central Arkansas and east
central, northeast, and southeast Oklahoma.
* WHEN…For the first Extreme Heat Warning, until 8 PM CDT this
evening. For the second Extreme Heat Warning, from noon to 7 PM CDT
Wednesday.
* IMPACTS…Heat related illnesses increase significantly during
extreme heat and high humidity events.
Instructions
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.
This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.
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