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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 26, 2000Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 3:08 PM CST for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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, 3:08 PM CST (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 262109
SVRTUL
OKC113-262200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
308 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 308 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF HOMINY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SKIATOOK...
HOMINY AND OSAGE

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

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONSC AS STORMS APPROACH.

LAT...LON 3649 9656 3631 9660 3620 9602 3643 9601

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 9:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	54 min
Mar 26, 11:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	34 min
Mar 26, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	49 min
Mar 26, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	39 min
Mar 26, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	51 min
Mar 26, 4:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	56 min
Mar 26, 4:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	37 min
Mar 26, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	42 min
Mar 26, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	43 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	37 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	52 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	37 min
Mar 26, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	49 min
Mar 26, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	42 min
Mar 26, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	53 min
Mar 26, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	52 min
Mar 26, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	47 min
Mar 26, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	47 min
Mar 26, 5:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	39 min
Mar 26, 5:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	50 min
Mar 26, 5:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	52 min
Mar 26, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	77 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	45 min
Mar 26, 5:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	41 min
Mar 26, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee	49 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.