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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 26, 2000Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 9:36 AM CST for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 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 26, 2000, 9:36 AM CST (15:36 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2000, 10:30 AM CST
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 12:00Z on 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 739 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 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
739 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 261537
SVRTUL
OKC113-117-261630-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
936 AM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  EASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1030 AM CST

* AT 936 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM FORAKER TO 12
  MILES WEST OF WYNONA TO 2 MILES NORTH OF MARAMEC...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...CLEVELAND...
SKEDEE...BLACKBURN...MARAMEC...HALLETT...GRAINOLA...HULAH...
FORAKER...BIGHEART...PEARSONIA...OKESA...BARNSDALL...WYNONA...
AVANT...HOMINY...OSAGE...SHIDLER AND PAWHUSKA

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3697 9667 3658 9668 3621 9680 3620 9609
          3658 9600 3698 9603

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 11:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware34 min
Mar 26, 3:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage52 min
Mar 26, 3:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Rogers49 min
Mar 26, 3:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Tulsa39 min
Mar 26, 3:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh51 min
Mar 26, 4:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee56 min
Mar 26, 4:08 PM CSTTornado WarningTSATulsa37 min
Mar 26, 4:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Delaware, Mayes42 min
Mar 26, 4:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek43 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CSTTornado WarningTSATulsa37 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee52 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner37 min
Mar 26, 4:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair49 min
Mar 26, 4:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee42 min
Mar 26, 4:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee53 min
Mar 26, 4:53 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAHaskell52 min
Mar 26, 5:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Wagoner47 min
Mar 26, 5:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh47 min
Mar 26, 5:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Sequoyah39 min
Mar 26, 5:25 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Sequoyah50 min
Mar 26, 5:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah52 min
Mar 26, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg77 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAHaskell45 min
Mar 26, 5:49 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg41 min
Mar 26, 5:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.