Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 5:52 PM CST for Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2000, 5:52 PM CST (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sequoyah County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:29 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Roland, 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 25, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
203 WUUS54 KTSA 252352 SVRTUL OKC135-260030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 552 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 552 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF MULDROW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ROLAND AND MULDROW HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3563 9454 3555 9472 3531 9456 3546 9443
The 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, 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 |
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.