Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 8:49 PM CST for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2000, 8:49 PM CST (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfax, OK | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few power poles near Fairfax. |
| Mar 7, 9:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Maramec, OK | |
| Mar 7, 9:38 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawhuska, OK | Thunderstorm winds knocked down a transmission line linking several substations and created power outages in Pawhuska, Barnsdall, Shidler and Avant. |
| Mar 7, 9:50 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Terlton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
860 WUUS54 KTSA 080249 SVRTUL OKC113-117-080345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 849 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 945 PM CST * AT 849 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RALSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RALSTON... GRAINOLA...FORAKER...PEARSONIA...BURBANK...FAIRFAX AND SHIDLER HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. $$ LAT...LON 3626 9717 3617 9698 3691 9632 3705 9660
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 9:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Tulsa | 42 min |
| Mar 7, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 37 min |
| Mar 7, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 10:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 11:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 39 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.