Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 8, 2000, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)

Expired

May 8, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 090349
SVRTUL
OKC113-117-090445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1046 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1046 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PAWHUSKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. AN 
  ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST            
  OF PAWNEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WESTPORT...
RALSTON...CLEVELAND...SKEDEE...BLACKBURN...MARAMEC...HALLETT...
TERLTON...JENNINGS...PAWNEE...OKESA AND PAWHUSKA.

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

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CHAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

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

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 10:30 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1030 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000

AN AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY COVERS MOST OF
THE AREA NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44.  INDIVIDUAL STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING
EAST...TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREAS...PRODUCING A CONSIDERABLE FLASH
FLOODING PROBLEM IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE WATCH AREA.  THE CAP
HAS KEPT STORMS FROM FIRING ON THE FRONT SO FAR...BUT AS THE
LOW-LEVEL JET CONTINUES TO INCREASE AND LARGE-SCALE FORCING
CONTINUES TO LIFT THE INVERSION...THUNDESTORM DEVELOPMENT SOUTH OF
THE CURRENT AREA WILL LIKELY HAPPEN.  BOTH THE 00Z ETA AND NGM SHOW
A SOUTHWARD SHIFT IN THE QPF AFTER MIDNIGHT...SO SIGNIFICANT
RAINFALL IS STILL POSSIBLE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE WATCH AREA.
CONTINUE FFATUL THROUGH THE NIGHT.  POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL WITH
THE ELEVATED CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MUCH OF THE NIGHT.

AS FOR THE ZONES...ALREADY UPDATED TO SLIGHTLY INCREASE POPS SOUTH
OF THE CURRENT ACTIVITY.  MADE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO TEMPERATURES
AND WINDS IN A FEW ZONES.

FCSTID = 19

.TUL...
AR...NONE.
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MONDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES ;OKZ054>064...
OKZ067.

In the hours before

OKZ054>062-064>067-090243-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
843 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000

...UPDATE FOR SHORT-TERM TRENDS...

THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS OSAGE COUNTY WILL CONTINUE TO
APPROACH THE STALLED FRONT WHICH AT 8PM EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN CRAIG
COUNTY...ACROSS NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY AND INTO CREEK COUNTY.  AS
THESE STORM APPROACH THE FRONT THEY WILL BECOME MORE SURFACED BASED
IN NATURE AND BEGIN TO TAP THE WARM AND HUMID SURFACE AIR.  AS THIS
OCCURS THE STORMS MAY TAKE ON SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTICS.

IN ADDITION...NEW STORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT.  IF THESE
STORMS FORM THEY COULD BECOME SUPERCELLS AS WELL.

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

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.