Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 3:19 PM CST for Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 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 25, 2000, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2000, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Latimer County, OK, LeFlore 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 25, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 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 252120 SVRTUL OKC077-079-252215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 319 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WESTERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 319 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES SOUTH OF RED OAK TO 10 MILES EAST OF RED OAK...NEARLY STATIONARY. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...RED OAK... FANSHAWE AND LEFLORE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMESc AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3497 9517 3487 9515 3485 9480 3498 9475
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 Mar 25, 11:28 AM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 11:28 AM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1128 AM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 MOST OF THE MORNING CONVECTION HAS MOVED EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA...BUT SOME WEAK CONVECTION WAS STILL NOTED ON SATELLITE AND 88D ACROSS PUSHMATAHA AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES. SURFACE ANALYSIS AND MESONET DATA SHOW THE WEAK FRONT EXTENDING FROM NEAR KMLC TO KFSM. ALTHOUGH THIS FRONT IS WEAK AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO WEAKEN...IT MAY PROVIDE ENOUGH FOCUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. MODIFIED SOUNDINGS FOR TEMPERATURES NEAR 80 AND DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 60S YIELD CAPE VALUES OF GREATER THAN 2000 J/KG WITH NO CAP IN AREAS NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF THE FRONT BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. EARLY MORNING PACKAGE LOOKED REASONABLE WITH LOW POPS NEAR AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT IN THE FIRST PERIOD. UPDATED ZONE PACKAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN SENT. MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO FIRST PERIOD POPS AND TEMPERATURES BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS. FCSTID = 9 UPDATED NUMBERS... TUL 75 50 72 52 / 10 20 40 30 FSM 78 51 74 52 / 20 30 40 40 MLC 78 53 73 52 / 30 30 50 40 BVO 75 47 71 51 / 5 20 40 30 FYV 72 48 71 50 / 20 20 30 40 BYV 72 48 71 50 / 20 20 30 40 MIO 72 48 72 50 / 10 20 30 40 MKO 75 50 72 52 / 10 20 40 30 F10 75 50 72 52 / 10 20 40 30 HHW 77 55a 75 55 / 50 40 50 40 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 1:10 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-261200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 110 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .SYNOPSIS... AT MIDDAY A STATIONARY FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. MEANWHILE... AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM SYSTEM OVER NEW MEXICO WILL APPROACH EASTERN OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. .PRIMARY HAZARD... A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TO THE SOUTH OF A FAYETTEVILLE TO MUSKOGEE TO OKEMAH LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. .DISCUSSION... SUNSHINE WILL ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO RISE INTO THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S WILL GENERATE CAPES IN THE 1500 TO 2500 J/KG RANGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRESENSE OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND APPROACH OF THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL ALLOW FOR CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WHILE LOW LEVEL WIND FIELDS WILL BE WEAK ...ENOUGH MID LEVEL WIND EXISTS FOR A FEW SUPERCELLS. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTERS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...ALONG WITH OTHER DETAILED FORECASTS...CAN BE OBTAINED VIA THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWSTULSA.NOAA.GOV.
Local storm report, Mar 25, 2:50 PM CST, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
250 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
\0220 PM RED OAK OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/00 LATIMER DEPUTY REPORTED DIME
SIZED HAIL NEAR RED OAK.
DRMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 5:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 39 min |
| 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.