Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 4:52 PM CST for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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 26, 2000, 4:52 PM CST (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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, 5:15 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Park Hill, 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 26, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 262253 SVRTUL OKC021-262345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 452 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 452 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEGGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PEGGS... ELDON...HULBERT AND TAHLEQUAH 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 3610 9513 3596 9527 3566 9483 3593 9481
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, 3:51 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, 4:53 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.