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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 8, 2000Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 7, 10:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 588 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 220 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 7, 8:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee56 min
Mar 7, 9:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee61 min
Mar 7, 9:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa66 min
Mar 7, 9:48 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACreek, Osage, Tulsa42 min
Mar 7, 9:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee37 min
Mar 7, 10:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh49 min
Mar 7, 10:20 PM CSTTornado WarningTSANowata, Rogers, Washington40 min
Mar 7, 10:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner63 min
Mar 7, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Rogers, Wagoner64 min
Mar 7, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee64 min
Mar 7, 10:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Rogers31 min
Mar 7, 11:13 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee47 min
Mar 7, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee45 min
Mar 7, 11:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Ottawa61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.