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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 12:06 AM CST for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 8, 2000, 12:06 AM CST (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2000, 12:45 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pushmataha County, OK
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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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 080608 SVRTUL OKC127-080645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1206 AM CST WED MAR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1245 AM CST * AT 1206 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SNOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALBION... KIAMICHI...TUSKAHOMA...SNOW AND CLAYTON HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WAHTCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3451 9549 3436 9548 3464 9494 3469 9525
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, 10:56 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 |
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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.