Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2000, 5:46 AM CDT for Muskogee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 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
- May 6, 2000, 5:46 AM CDT (10:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2000, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:10 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Boynton, 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 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 061048 SVRTUL OKC101-111-061130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 546 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 546 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES EAST OF TAFT TO 3 MILES NORTH OF BALD HILL TO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEGGS TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEGGS...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...HASKELL... FORT GIBSON...TAFT...BOYNTON...KEEFETON...OKTAHA...MUSKOGEE...BALD HILL AND BEGGS HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AsS STORMS APPROACH. CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3588 9618 3577 9616 3548 9523 3580 9518
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa | 47 min |
| May 5, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 61 min |
| May 5, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 52 min |
| May 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 60 min |
| May 5, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 59 min |
| May 5, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 46 min |
| May 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 42 min |
| May 5, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 61 min |
| May 6, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 59 min |
| May 6, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 42 min |
| May 6, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 40 min |
| May 6, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 48 min |
| May 6, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 43 min |
| May 6, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 47 min |
| May 6, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 33 min |
| May 6, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 46 min |
| May 6, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 54 min |
| May 6, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 51 min |
| May 6, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| May 6, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 51 min |
| May 6, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 52 min |
| May 6, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 49 min |
| May 6, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 45 min |
| May 6, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 46 min |
| May 6, 5:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| May 6, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 53 min |
| May 6, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 24 min |
| May 6, 7:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee | 63 min |
| May 6, 7:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 63 min |
| May 6, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 43 min |
| May 6, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 48 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.