Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 5:36 AM CST for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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 25, 2000, 5:36 AM CST (11:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2000, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:35 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 25, 5:40 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Clayton, 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 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 251137 SVRTUL OKC127-251215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 536 AM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 615 AM CST * AT 536 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAYTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALBION... KIAMICHI...TUSKAHOMA AND CLAYTON HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3469 9547 345~3 9548 3456 9491 3470 9495
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 55 min |
| Mar 25, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 38 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.