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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 23, 2000Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Okfuskee County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 23, 4:50 PM CDTHail 0.75Welty, 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2000-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 76 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2000-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 340 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

896 
WUUS54 KTSA 232147
SVRTUL
OKC107-232230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
445 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 445 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CASTLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH...WITH 
OTHER STORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST OKFUSKEE COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WELTY...
BOLEY...CASTLE...CLEARVIEW...BEARDEN AND OKEMAH

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3564 9630 3561 9659 3510 9636 3519 9608

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Tulsa47 min
Apr 23, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg43 min
Apr 23, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee49 min
Apr 23, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa45 min
Apr 23, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg35 min
Apr 23, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, Pushmataha47 min
Apr 23, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee45 min
Apr 23, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh38 min
Apr 23, 2:23 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha37 min
Apr 23, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer52 min
Apr 23, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg50 min
Apr 23, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee61 min
Apr 23, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha48 min
Apr 23, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore56 min
Apr 23, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer32 min
Apr 23, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage61 min
Apr 23, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha48 min
Apr 23, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee50 min
Apr 23, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Washington58 min
Apr 23, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh42 min
Apr 23, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Sequoyah57 min
Apr 23, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage64 min
Apr 23, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig50 min
Apr 23, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee48 min
Apr 23, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington40 min
Apr 23, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh63 min
Apr 23, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Tulsa50 min
Apr 23, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee, Okmulgee49 min
Apr 23, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg57 min
Apr 23, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek39 min
Apr 23, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh58 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.