Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 325, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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
- Oct 27, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Okfuskee County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 5:53 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Mason, 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1044 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KTSA 272245
SVRTUL
OKC107-272330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
544 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 543 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR MASON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MASON...
CASTLE...AND OKFUSKEE.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.
LAT...LON 3563 9659 3554 9658 3546 9656 3547 9614
3565 9620;What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 27, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 310 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 2000 EAST/WEST BAND OF RAIN/CONVECTION REMAINS ONGOING ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. BAND OF PRECIP CURRENTLY STRETCHING ROUGHLY ALONG A TUL-FYV LINE AND LIFTING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD GRADUALLY WEAKEN WITH TIME THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING WHILE CONTINUING TO LIFT TO THE NORTHEAST. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THEN POSSIBLE AGAIN BY LATE TONIGHT WITH WAA PATTERN AND JUNKY SOUTHWEST FLOW PATTERN ALOFT CONTINUING. MAIN ACTION THOUGH WITH WESTERN TROUGH WILL BEGIN TO TAKE SHAPE OUT TOWARD THE PANHANDLES BY LATE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AS TROUGH BEGINS TO MOVE OUT INTO THE PLAINS. WILL STILL CONTINUE WITH AT LEAST CHANCE POPS THROUGH TOMORROW OUT AHEAD OF THE TROUGH...BUT HIGHEST POPS WILL BE SATURDAY NIGHT WITH GOOD POTENTIAL FOR SQUALL LINE TO MAKE ITS WAY ACROSS THE AREA BETWEEN 06Z AND 12Z. THIS TIMING IS GENERALLY BASED ON A COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE ETA AND THE SLOWER SOLUTION OF THE AVN. WILL ALSO HAVE TO CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR FLOOD POTENTIAL THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS RAIN CONTINUES TO ACCUMULATE. HAVE SOME 48 HOUR TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE AREA...SO FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES CONTINUING TO LOWER. WILL THEN KEEP SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY DRY BETWEEN THIS SYSTEM AND THE NEXT SCHEDULED TO APPROACH ON TUESDAY. DIURNAL RANGE ON TEMPS WILL REMAIN LIMITED THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH LOWS MOSTLY IN THE 60S FOR LOWS AND LOWER 70S FOR HIGHS. FCSTID = 4 TUL 63 73 62 75 / 50 50 70 40 FSM 62 74 62 75 / 40 40 70 60 MLC 62 75 62 76 / 40 50 70 40 BVO 62 73 60 75 / 50 50 70 30 FYV 57 72 58 72 / 50 40 70 60 BYV 57 72 58 72 / 50 40 70 60 MIO 60 72 60 74 / 50 40 70 40 MKO 63 73 62 75 / 50 50 70 40 F10 63 73 62 5 75 / 50 50 70 40 HHW 62 77 62 77 / 40 40 70 50 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 27, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-281100- EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 425 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 2000 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA... .DISCUSSION... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED ALONG AN UPPER LEVEL SHEAR ZONE ALONG I-40. ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THIS EVENING ALLOWING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. AS THESE STORMS SLOWLY MOVE TO THE EAST...ISOLATED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS MAY ALSO OCCUR. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE RQEQUIRED FOR A FEW HOURS THIS EVENING. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING.
Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:36 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
536 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0420 PM 3 SW MILFAY OK 1 INCH HAIL
10/27/00 CREEK SPOTTER REPORT
0427 PM DEPEW OK .88 INCH HAIL
10/27/00 CREEK SPOTTER REPORT
2The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 50 min |
| Oct 27, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 51 min |
| Oct 27, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 110 min |
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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.