Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 3:14 AM CST for Adair County, Cherokee County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 3:14 AM CST (09:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 3:15 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Blackgum, OK | |
| Jan 3, 3:35 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Stilwell, 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 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 030915
SVRTUL
OKC001-021-135-031000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
314 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
NORTHWESTERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 400 AM CST
* AT 314 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COOKSON...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ELDON...
COOKSON...WESTVILLE...PROCTOR...CHRISTIE...BARQON...BUNCH AND STILWELL
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.
LAT...LON 3565 9515 3551 9501 3571 9450 3601 9455
3603 9484The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 38 min |
| Jan 3, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 54 min |
| Jan 3, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| Jan 3, 5:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 35 min |
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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.