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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 12, 2000Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 12, 6:05 PM CDTHail 0.75Cloudy, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 12, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2000-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3281 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 2000-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 453 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha39 min
May 12, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer47 min
May 12, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore46 min
May 12, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw47 min
May 12, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, Pushmataha47 min
May 12, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore45 min
May 12, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw47 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.