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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 7:51 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 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
- Jul 22, 2000, 7:51 AM CDT (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Choctaw County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hugo, OK | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
294 WUUS54 KTSA 221251 SVRTUL OKC023-221345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 751 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 845 AM CDT * AT 751 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF KENT TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOPER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...KENT... MESSER...SOPER...FORT TOWSON...SAWYER...GOODLAND AND HUGO. 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 3419 9575 3390 9595 3384 9530 3413 9517
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 7:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 54 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.