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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 16, 2000Delaware County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2000, 6:51 AM CDT for Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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 16, 2000, 6:51 AM CDT (11:51 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2000, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Delaware County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:55 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 16, 7:00 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Vinita, OK	Dime size hail fell in Ketchum.
May 16, 7:30 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Jay, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 582 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

082 
WUUS54 KTSA 161151
SVRTUL
OKC041-161230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
651 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 651 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHLOETA...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CHLOETA...
COLCORD AND JAY

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

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

LAT...LON 3658 9502 3641 9505 3621 9463 3646 9461

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	39 min
May 16, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	40 min
May 16, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	52 min
May 16, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	44 min
May 16, 5:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	53 min
May 16, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, Sequoyah	44 min
May 16, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	51 min
May 16, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	49 min
May 16, 6:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	47 min
May 16, 6:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	43 min
May 16, 6:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	27 min
May 16, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	28 min
May 16, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	46 min
May 16, 7:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.