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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 23, 2000Cherokee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2000, 3:42 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 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
Sep 23, 2000, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cherokee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 23, 4:15 PM CDTHail 1Lost City, 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-09-23Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -39 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 232043
SVRTUL
OKC021-232130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
342 PM CDT SAT SEP 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 342 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2
  MILES WEST OF HULBERT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SCRAPER...
  PEGGS AND HULBERT.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3605 9527 3589 9517 3606 9476 3619 9495

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata37 min
Sep 23, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig45 min
Sep 23, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Ottawa66 min
Sep 23, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee51 min
Sep 23, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Pittsburg51 min
Sep 23, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware55 min
Sep 23, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair49 min
Sep 23, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Pittsburg62 min
Sep 23, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah33 min
Sep 23, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer62 min
Sep 23, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore50 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.