Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1999, 4:23 AM CST for Craig County, Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1999, 4:23 AM CST (10:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1999, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Craig County, OK, Mayes County, OK
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 031023 RRA SVRTUL OKC021-035-091-097-101-145-031100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 423 AM CST SAT APR 3 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EASTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 500 AM CST * AT 422 AM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES WEST OF WHITE OAK TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF OKAY TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF CHECOTAH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... WEBBERS FALLS...FORT GIBSON... BRAGGS...KEEFETON...OKTAHA...WARNER...PORUM...MUSKOGEE... RENTIESVILLE...CHECOTAH...DISNEY...LANGLEY...PENSACOLA...ADAIR... SPAVINAW...SALINA...ROSE...LOCUST GROVE...CHOUTEAU...PRYOR...WHITE OAK...BIG CABIN...KETCHUM...VINITA...OKAY...TULLAHASSEE... WAGONER...SCRAPER...PEGGS...ELDON...HULBERT...COOKSON... TAHLEQUAH AND OAKS. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
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 3, 12:53 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 12:53 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1253 AM CST SAT APR 3 1999 JUST UPDATED ZONES TO ADD NEW WW HEADLINE TO APPROPRIATE ZONES. ALSO INCREASED OVERNIGHT LOWS AND INCREASED POPS IN THE ZONES WITH THE WATCH GIVEN SOLID NATURE OF THE LINE WHICH WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST BEFORE SUNRISE. LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LARGEST PRESSURE FALLS AND THE LOWEST LIFTED INDICES SOUTH ALONG THE RED RIVER...THOUGH MODERATE INSTABILITIES AND PRESSURE FALLS EXTEND NORTHEASTWARD ALL THE WAY INTO CENTRAL MO. MORE BETWEEN 400 AND 500 AM. FCSTID = 22 .TUL... OK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY FOR ZONES OKZ054>056...OKTZ059>061...OKZ064>066. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 3:18 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
418 AM CST SAT APR 03 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0306 AM : MANNFORD OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/03/99 CREEK
0306 AM MANNFORD OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/99 CREEKLocal storm report, Apr 3, 3:21 AM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED ...CORRECTED FOR TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
321 AM CST SAT APR 03 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0306 AM MANNFORD OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/03/99 CREEK
0306 AM MANNFORD OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/99 CREEKLocal storm report, Apr 3, 3:52 AM CST, 31 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED ...CORRECTED FOR TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
352 AM CST SAT APR 03 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0344 AM BIXBY OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/99 TULSA
0344 AM BIXBY OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/03/99 TULSALocal storm report, Apr 3, 4:02 AM CST, 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED ...CORRECTED FOR TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
402 AM CST SAT APR 03 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0359 AM BARTLESVILLE OK WIND DAMAGE
04/03/99 WASHINGTON WINDOW BLOWN OUT OF A
HOUSELocal storm report, Apr 3, 4:16 AM CST, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
416 AM CST SAT APR 03 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0306 AM BRISTOW OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/03/99 CREEKLocal storm report, Apr 3, 4:18 AM CST, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
418 AM CST SAT APR 03 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0306 AM MANNFORD OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/03/99 CREEK
0306 AM MANNFORD OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/99 CREEKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 3:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 4:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 5:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 6:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 10:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 11:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 39 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.