Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 24, 1999McIntosh County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1999, 7:35 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County McIntosh County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 24, 8:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Checotah, OK	Several tree limbs were blown down in Checotah.

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 24, 6:40 PM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 6:40 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 24, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
352 PM CDT SAT APR 24 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1120 AM    TUSKAHOMA                 OK    .88 INCH HAIL
04/24/99   PUSHMATAHA

0112 PM    MC ALESTER                OK    FLOOD
04/24/99   PITTSBURG                       HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED
                                           HIGHWAY 31 WEST OF
                                           MCALESTER CLOSED AS
                                           WELL AS HIGHWAY 270
                                           NEAR MCALESTER.

0157 PM    WILBURTON                 OK    .75 INCH HAIL
04/24/99   LATIMER

Local storm report, Apr 24, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
352 PM CDT SAT APR 24 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1120 AM    TUSKAHOMA                 OK    .88 INCH HAIL
04/24/99   PUSHMATAHA

0112 PM    MC ALESTER                OK    FLOOD
04/24/99   PITTSBURG                       HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED
                                           HIGHWAY 31 WEST OF
                                           MCALESTER CLOSED AS
                                           WELL AS HIGHWAY 270
                                           NEAR MCALESTER.

0157 PM    WILBURTON                 OK    .75 INCH HAIL
04/24/99   LATIMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 9:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington	3 hr
Apr 25, 11:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	4 hr
Apr 25, 11:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	4 hr
Apr 25, 11:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata	4 hr
Apr 25, 11:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	3 hr
Apr 25, 11:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	3 hr
Apr 25, 12:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	3 hr
Apr 25, 12:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pawnee	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1999 Every 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.