Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 10:53 PM CDT for Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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 26, 2000, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sequoyah County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Gore, 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 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
391 WUUS54 KTSA 270354 SVRTUL OKC135-270445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1053 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 1145 PM CDT * AT 1053 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF GORE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MARBLE CITY... SHORT...BRUSHY...GORE...VIAN AND SALLISAW. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3557 9518 3540 9513 3548 9448 3571 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, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 47 min |
| May 26, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.