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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 27, 2000Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2000, 1:07 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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 27, 2000, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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 27, 1:20 AM CDTHail 0.75Burbank, 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 270611
SVRTUL
OKC113-270700-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
107 AM CDT THU APR 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 107 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF PONCA CITY...MOVING         
  SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2     
  MILES SOUTH OF GRAINOLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

CALL 1-800-722-277b8 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

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 26, 9:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 9:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
950 PM CDT WED APR 26 2000

02Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWING FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUING TO MAKE GOOD
PROGRESS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST ACROSS KANSAS THIS EVENING.  LITTLE IN
THE WAY OF ANY ASSOCIATED CONVECTION THRU THE EVENING...BUT DO EXPECT
TO SEE MORE ACTIVITY DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.  PROFILER WINDS
IN THE LOWER LEVELS STILL RATHER LIGHT OVER THE AREA...BUT SHOULD
INCREASE INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS.  PROFILERS TO THE WEST GENERALLY
IN THE 20-25 KNOT RANGE BELOW 850MB.  WILL NOT NEED TO MAKE MANY
CHANGES THIS EVENING...BUT WILL UP THE POPS JUST SLIGHTLY IN NORTHERN
AREAS WHERE ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE MENTIONED NOW.

.TUL...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee39 min
Apr 27, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.