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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 7, 2000Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 10:56 PM CST for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 min. 2 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, 10:56 PM CST (04:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 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, 11:22 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Muskogee, OK
Mar 7, 11:24 PM CST	Hail 1	Summit, 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, 10:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 080458
SVRTUL
OKC097-101-131-145-080600-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1056 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   
  SOUTHERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHEASTERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST

* AT 1056 PM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS     
  UP TO 75 MPH WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES      
  SOUTHWEST OF INOLA TO REDBIRD TO 4 MILES SOUTH OF COUNCIL HILL...  
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...  FORT GIBSON...TAFT...COUNCIL
  HILL...MUSKOGEE...CHOUTEAU...PRYOR...OKAY...PORTER...TULLAHASSEE...
  WAGONER AND INOLA

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THESE
STORMS.

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, 9:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	37 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, 10:59 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.