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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 565, NWS Tulsa, OK

December 3, 1999Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 3, 1999, 12:22 AM CST for Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 68 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: Dec 3, 1999, 12:22 AM CST (06:22 UTC)
Expired: Dec 3, 1999, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 3, 12:30 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Wilburton, OK	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree down.
Dec 3, 1:03 AM CST	Hail 0.75	Panama, OK

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 2, 10:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

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 Dec 2, 8:17 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 2, 8:17 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
817 PM CST THU DEC 2 1999

UPDATED ZONES HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENT. THE UPDATE REFLECTS NEW SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND ALSO DELAYED ENDING OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL
EARLY FRIDAY MORNING MOST ZONES.

LARGE SQUALL LINE HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING
AND WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN PART OF COUNTY WARNING AREA AT THIS
TIME.  MAIN THREAT OVERNIGHT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...ALTHOUGH
WE WILL HAVE TO WATCH CLOSELY FOR SUPERCELLS IN ANY STORMS AHEAD OF
THE LINE SINCE LOW LEVEL WINDS HAVE BACKED AND SHEAR REMAINS
STRONG.

NO CHANGES WERE MADE TO LATER PERIODS OF FORECAST.

FCSTID = 9

.TUL...
AR...NONE.
OK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM THIS EVENING FOR ZONES
OKZ049...OKZ053...OKZ060...OKZ064>067...OKZ070>071...OKZ073>075.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 100 AM CST FRIDAY FOR ZONES
OKZ054>063.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 2, 11:06 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 2, 11:48 PM CST, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 3, 12:07 AM CST, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 3, 12:09 AM CST, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 3, 12:20 AM CST, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 2, 8:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	53 min
Dec 2, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	60 min
Dec 2, 9:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	56 min
Dec 2, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	40 min
Dec 2, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	50 min
Dec 2, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	50 min
Dec 2, 9:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage	32 min
Dec 2, 10:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa	64 min
Dec 2, 10:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	64 min
Dec 2, 10:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	42 min
Dec 2, 11:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	39 min
Dec 2, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	62 min
Dec 3, 12:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	51 min
Dec 2, 11:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison	39 min
Dec 3, 12:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	50 min
Dec 3, 12:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	52 min
Dec 3, 1:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	54 min
Dec 3, 1:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	59 min

Nearby

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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.