Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 26, 2000Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 9:07 PM CST for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 38 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, 9:07 PM CST (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Choctaw County, OK

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, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 2173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1382 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 11.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 270308
SVRTUL
OKC023-270345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
907 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 945 PM CST

* AT 907 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF SOPER...MOVING SOUTHEmAST AT 35
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SOPER

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

LAT...LON 3410 9570 3400 9589 3388 9578 3393 9555

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 6:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	57 min
Mar 26, 6:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee	32 min
Mar 26, 6:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
Mar 26, 6:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	28 min
Mar 26, 6:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	35 min
Mar 26, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	50 min
Mar 26, 7:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	53 min
Mar 26, 7:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Choctaw	53 min
Mar 26, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.