Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 3:51 PM CST for Osage County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 26, 2000, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Osage County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:16 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Tulsa, OK | Golfball size hail fell at the Channel 6 studios near downtown Tulsa. |
| Mar 26, 4:30 PM CST | Hail 2.5 | Tulsa, OK | Tennis ball size hail was reported by an off duty National Weather Service employee near 101st street and Sheridan Avenue. This hail was part of a large swath of large hail which fell from downtown Tulsa through western and southern parts of the city of Tulsa |
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 26, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 262152 SVRTUL OKC113-143-262230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 351 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 351 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF TULSA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BROKEN ARROW AND TULSA 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 CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. LAT...LON 3634 9618 3622 9623 3595 9577 3617 9576
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, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 49 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 |
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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.