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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 3, 2000Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 1:09 AM CST for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 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
Jan 3, 2000, 1:09 AM CST (07:09 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 1:45 AM CST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3258 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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.

785 
WUUS54 KTSA 030709
SVRTUL
OKC101-030745-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
109 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 145 AM CST

* AT 109 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KEEFETON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FORT GIBSON...
BRAGGS...KEEFETON...OKTAHA AND MUSKOGEE

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3556 9557 3549 9539 3568 9507 3586 9522

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 11:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore38 min
Jan 3, 3:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Sequoyah46 min
Jan 3, 3:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah54 min
Jan 3, 4:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah50 min
Jan 3, 5:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.