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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 5:58 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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 12, 2000, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pushmataha County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cloudy, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 3281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 453 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 122259 SVRTUL OKC127-122345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 558 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLOUDY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OLETA AND CLOUDY HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3435 9542 3417 9543 3418 9512 3453 9504
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 39 min |
| May 12, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 min |
| May 12, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 47 min |
| May 12, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 47 min |
| May 12, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| May 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.