Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 24, 1999LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1999, 8:42 AM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 1999, 8:42 AM CDT (13:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1999, 9:45 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 24, 9:30 AM CDTHail 0.75Spiro, OK
Apr 24, 9:30 AM CDTThunderstorm WindSpiro, OKLarge tree limbs were blown down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 23, 5:00 PM CDT, 15 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 5:00 PM CDT, 15 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 6:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg40 min
Apr 24, 7:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore51 min
Apr 24, 7:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg61 min
Apr 24, 7:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAPittsburg117 min
Apr 24, 8:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore36 min
Apr 24, 8:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg47 min
Apr 24, 8:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore3 hr
Apr 24, 9:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, Pushmataha58 min
Apr 24, 10:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha3 hr
Apr 24, 11:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Pushmataha47 min
Apr 24, 11:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALeFlore118 min
Apr 24, 1:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg2 hr
Apr 24, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer50 min
Apr 24, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer31 min
Apr 24, 3:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg3 hr
Apr 24, 5:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAMcIntosh3 hr
Apr 24, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin, Sebastian46 min
Apr 24, 8:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin61 min
Apr 24, 9:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASebastian54 min
Apr 24, 10:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAFranklin, Sebastian2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.