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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 10:13 PM CDT for Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sequoyah County, OK
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 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
559 WUUS54 KTSA 270315 SVRTUL OKC135-270400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1013 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALLISAW...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MARBLE CITY... SHORT...BRUSHY AND SALLISAW 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 AS STORMS APPROACH. CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3555 9499 3538 9494 3544 9444 3565 9448
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 53 min |
| May 26, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 44 min |
| May 26, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 52 min |
| May 26, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 41 min |
| May 26, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 40 min |
| May 26, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 51 min |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 42 min |
| May 26, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 49 min |
| May 26, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 46 min |
| May 26, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 52 min |
| May 27, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 59 min |
| May 27, 12:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 4 hr |
| May 27, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 62 min |
| May 27, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 41 min |
| May 27, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 42 min |
| May 27, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 55 min |
| May 27, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 39 min |
| May 27, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 42 min |
| May 27, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 41 min |
| May 27, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.