Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 9:53 PM CST for Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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, 9:53 PM CST (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okmulgee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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, 10:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Nuyaka, OK | |
| Mar 7, 10:13 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Preston, OK | |
| Mar 7, 10:20 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Beggs, OK | |
| Mar 7, 10:35 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Henryetta, 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 080354 SVRTUL OKC111-080430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 953 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1030 PM CST * AT 953 PM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH AND GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES EAST OF SLICK TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF OKFUSKEE TO 4 MILES NORTH OF CLEARVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... BALD HILL...BEGGS...PRESTON... MORRIS AND OKMULGEE STORM SPOTTERS RvEPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT LAKE OKEMAH AT 946 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. $$ DRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 8:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 56 min |
| 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, 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.